BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho

Would you be happy to see Jose Mourinho become next United manager?

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Jose Mourinho is ringside at Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title challenge against Charles Martin tonight, and said in an interview at the o2 Arena that he has not yet been offered a contract with Manchester United, but he would "love" to stay in England.

The 52-year-old Mourinho has been out of work since December, when he sacked by Chelsea with the Premier League champions languishing in 16th place in the league.

He has since been heavily linked with replacing Louis van Gaal at United this summer, should the Dutchman be sacked, but Mourinho revealed in an interview with Sky Sports before the fight that he has not agreement with them. The Portuguese did make his intentions clearly known though - he wants to stay in England.

"I don't have a contract with another club. I'd prefer to stay in England,'" Mourinho said at the o2 Arena. "I love the country."

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...has-not-been-offered-manchester-a6976911.html

Any video of this interview?
 
Just offer him the contract already, next he'll be putting on fishnets and heels for Woodward.
 
2 Man Midfield said:
Just offer him the contract already, next he'll be putting on fishnets and heels for Woodward.
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Its done, but not official. We are a bit more tactical than our noisy neighbours. We will probably wait to the end of the season. Maybe LvG gets the opportunity to resign as well.
 
stevoc said:
I'll have some of whatever you were on that year mate.

That season we were tedious and all, it was my worst in almost 30 years as a United fan. We have been average/erratic/shit under LVG but at least we go into every game against any team with the hope that we can win.

Under Moyes all you had to do was look at the league table and if our opposition were in the top half, it was highly unlikely we were winning. Thats the very definition of soul destroying.
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No it isn't you're being hyperbolic and overly melodramatic. Football happens during the 90 minutes and what Van Gaal has purposely wheeled out under a re-build is the definition of soul destroying. Continuing unchanged to bang our heads against a brick wall pursuing a type of football that is not only skull liquifyingly boring, but results in not getting the best out of your players on match day, the players being more "tactical" and playing with more "intellegence". It has gone in the complete opposite of what the United name has stood for, for the last 50 years.

amolbhatia50k said:
I don't agree with your definition of "lasting impact" at all. A manager putting his own (or Barca/Bayern's) different imprint badly on the way a team plays is no more damaging than a manager who seemingly puts no imprint on the way a team plays. The end result is exactly the same - a bad implementation of ideas. And this idea that a club can only play football one way forever is also wrong. Chelsea played different football under Mourinho and different football under Ancelotti, and both did well. Real Madrid play counter attacking football, but in a few years under a different manager might a different style.
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As in, it was nixed. Straight away, before there was any proper "rebuilding" from Moyes. I have no idea how that can carry "lasting impact" when the next guy came in straight away and turned us away from what United has been for 50 years and drove full throttle down a dead end under the guise of a rebuild in his image that the club didn't need.

Anyway, this is off topic and you're being excessively myopic, pedantic and pursuing an argument that barely exists. So I'm just going to leave it.
 
Why would he go to Everton?

I know they been taken over. But their new owners aren't like Roman or the Man City owner.
 
Acquire Me said:
Its done, but not official. We are a bit more tactical than our noisy neighbours. We will probably wait to the end of the season. Maybe LvG gets the opportunity to resign as well.
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So who is your source, without naming names? Inside the club, friend of a friend...?
 
Dream scenario, we get fourth, win the FA coop and Louis 'resigns' on a high, waxing lyrical about the FA coop as he always does - 'I watched it as a boy and now have won it with my final game'.
 
Perrick Dubois said:
No it isn't you're being hyperbolic and overly melodramatic. Football happens during the 90 minutes and what Van Gaal has purposely wheeled out under a re-build is the definition of soul destroying. Continuing unchanged to bang our heads against a brick wall pursuing a type of football that is not only skull liquifyingly boring, but results in not getting the best out of your players on match day, the players being more "tactical" and playing with more "intellegence". It has gone in the complete opposite of what the United name has stood for, for the last 50 years.
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That could just as easily describe the Moyes era.

We were just as boring under Moyes if not more so, and we were shit to boot. Shitter than we are now in fact. Lets not rewrite history.

That year almost to a man an entire squad of multiple title winners started playing like mid-table plodders.
 
2 Man Midfield said:
So who is your source, without naming names? Inside the club, friend of a friend...?
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My source know because the team he work with need to plan for next season. Its a lot going on before next season, a new manager is not a small issue for a club as big as ours.
 
Parked the bus at the boxing tonight :lol:

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stevoc said:
That could just as easily describe the Moyes era.

We were just as boring under Moyes if not more so, and we were shit to boot. Shitter than we are now in fact. Lets not rewrite history.

That year almost to a man an entire squad of multiple title winners started playing like mid-table plodders.
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Moyes was sacked one game shy of two seasons ago by PL fixture-calendar date. At those times (33 games gone) Van Gaal last season had 59 goals. This season he'll have to score 20 goals against Spurs/Villa to equal that tally from last season. Only four more goals than Moyes scored in his season. Put it in perspective for a second, we'd have to score 16 goals in two games in order to equal the amount of goals we scored under Moyes leadership.

Boredom I guess is subjective to each individual, but I think the unanimous verdict is that we are boring under Van Gaal. Which is scary considering he's demolished a lot of club to build his own version in the process. Something Moyes quite thankfully was removed before he had a chance to do.

(Obviously removed the goals we scored under Relegation Ryan.)
 
Perrick Dubois said:
Moyes was sacked one game shy of two seasons ago by PL fixture-calendar date. At those times (33 games gone) Van Gaal last season had 59 goals. This season he'll have to score 20 goals against Spurs/Villa to equal that tally from last season. Only four more goals than Moyes scored in his season. Put it in perspective for a second, we'd have to score 16 goals in two games in order to equal the amount of goals we scored under Moyes leadership.

Boredom I guess is subjective to each individual, but I think the unanimous verdict is that we are boring under Van Gaal. Which is scary considering he's demolished a lot of club to build his own version in the process. Something Moyes quite thankfully was removed before he had a chance to do.

(Obviously removed the goals we scored under Relegation Ryan.)
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Please point out to me mate where in any of my posts i claimed we are not boring under Van Gaal?

You on the other hand seem to be trying to make out we were not just as boring under Moyes, we were we played tedious reactionary shite under Moyes with no set plan or style beyond getting to the byline and crossing. All the while being a worse team results wise despite having a much better and more experienced squad that had just ran away with the title the season before.

And i agree Van Gaal has demolished this squad. And built in my opinion a rather expensively assembled thin, mediocre & injury prone squad in it's place.
 
Acquire Me said:
My source know because the team he work with need to plan for next season. Its a lot going on before next season, a new manager is not a small issue for a club as big as ours.
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It's worth mentioning that last week a fair amount of the jouros in the UK where saying Van Gaal has already planned pre season, with only two games in China(Actually alot of them seemed disappointed as it's less of a holiday.).
 
stevoc said:
Please point out to me mate where in any of my posts i claimed we are not boring under Van Gaal?
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I don't need to, it has nothing to do with anything. I don't know why you are so paranoid about this issue, all I said above there are distinct lines between all three regimes. Van Gaal has been allowed to continue his work because of the results and it has been an obvious detour away from how the club has functioned for decades for the sake of his personal rebuild flavour which is turning sour at the moment.

Anyway, no point really continuing this. This is not the thread for such argument.
 
Sweet Square said:
It's worth mentioning that last week a fair amount of the jouros in the UK where saying Van Gaal has already planned pre season, with only two games in China(Actually alot of them seemed disappointed as it's less of a holiday.).
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Its his job to plan for next season, because he is still our manager. He will be released/sacked/resign though. It would be great with a announcement now, but its probably smart to wait so that we dont upset our players and staff.
 
Sweet Square said:
It's worth mentioning that last week a fair amount of the jouros in the UK where saying Van Gaal has already planned pre season, with only two games in China
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Moyes also made many plans....right up to the day he was fired. It means nothing.
 
Perrick Dubois said:
I don't need to, it has nothing to do with anything. I don't know why you are so paranoid about this issue, all I said above there are distinct lines between all three regimes. Van Gaal has been allowed to continue his work because of the results and it has been an obvious detour away from how the club has functioned for decades for the sake of his personal rebuild flavour which is turning sour at the moment.
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Huh? I might have misinterpreted your last post and i apologize if i did but you seemed to be implying i was somehow defending LVG and trying to make out we were not currently boring.

I'm not paranoid about anything to be honest.

Perrick Dubois said:
Anyway, no point really continuing this. This is not the thread for such argument.
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Yeah agreed i'll leave it there, as we're going round in circles.
 
Acquire Me said:
Its his job to plan for next season, because he is still our manager. He will be released/sacked/resign though. It would be great with a announcement now, but its probably smart to wait so that we dont upset our players and staff.
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sunama said:
Moyes also made many plans....right up to the day he was fired. It means nothing.
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Not saying that he's here next season but from what the journalist were saying Van Gaal seem to have got a pretty big win over the more commercial side of United, who clearly would rather play more than 2 games in China(The two games being Dortmund and City). It's just a very odd thing to leak to journalist if Mourinho is all said and done.

Still it could easily be all a lot of shite.
 
Earthquake said:
Maybe the club are getting input from him on the summer signings, stranger things have happened. Didn't we go through with a few Moyes signings after he was dumped?
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He was certainly involved with the Shaw signing, though I seem to remember talk that the club had been following the player for so long (like with Herrera) that it probably would've happened anyway as long as the manager hadn't pulled the plug (like Moyes did with Strootman, Herrera and the rest post-Fergie). I don't think the others were Moyes' targets, though I could be wrong - I only remember him being linked with Kroos, who LVG didn't want.
 
Antisocial said:
He was certainly involved with the Shaw signing, though I seem to remember talk that the club had been following the player for so long (like with Herrera) that it probably would've happened anyway as long as the manager hadn't pulled the plug (like Moyes did with Strootman, Herrera and the rest post-Fergie). I don't think the others were Moyes' targets, though I could be wrong - I only remember him being linked with Kroos, who LVG didn't want.
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Yeah, you're probably right there, heck, Moyes skipped Herrera because of the price, ffs.
 
Attila said:


Football talk starts at 3.35, United at 4.40
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Someone get a body language expert now!!!

I'm no expert but he got very quick (eye movements/speaking) when talking about United compared to when he was talking about other things which might point to the fact that something is happening.

Also talking about decisions being made in may/end of may (el pais reported there was a clause to do with us signing him before May and June).
 
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Attila said:


Football talk starts at 3.35, United at 4.40
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Thanks for posting! Desperately wanted him after SAF and the feeling remains for me now. I don't know why he winds up some United fans: for me he is the epitome if what a United manager should be like.

Looks well rested and hope he has sorted out his emotional state issues which led the the Chelsea spooling earlier his season.

I Was Watching his his eyes when questions were asked: he did not flinch or express any change of emotion when asked about United job. Likewise definitive in his answer about no contract already agreed which suggests the press contract story is Bullshit.

I still maintain, that given its impossible to keep a conversation private anymore, nothing had yet been formally decided. Maybe the story of a verbal offer is true, but that is a worthless.

It looks like to me that the board is yet to make its final decision.
 
Paolo Di Canio said:
Have a sneaky feeling he could surprise everyone and take over Arsenal...
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Wenger isn't going to retire a season early for someone who called him a specialist in failure and probably the manager he gets on with the least.

There's 0% of that happening. Mourinho has burnt his bridges with Arsenal and Liverpool
 
Attila said:
Wenger isn't going to retire a season early for someone who called him a specialist in failure and probably the manager he gets on with the least.

There's 0% of that happening. Mourinho has burnt his bridges with Arsenal and Liverpool
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Sean_RedDevil said:
Wenger wouldn't resign and nothing at all says that Arsenal's board would sack him.

Mourinho to Fulham is more likely.
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Arsenal board could feel enough is enough and Arsene's replacement could be available now as we are dithering, where else in England could he possibley go if we wants to work within a budget he is used too. I did say he loves London and he would go there if offered in my opinion.
 
I can't see Arsenal forcing Wenger out like that. They stuck with him for nine years without any trophies, and the respect they have for him is obviously huge. I just can't believe they'd push Wenger out like that, nor can I believe that they would see Mourinho as the best replacement. If anything I can see them being a bit like us - trying to find a Wenger like manager who will keep the traditions of the club going. Mourinho doesn't represent that one bit.
 
He looks healthy and in good spirits, a completely different picture to the last days of his chelsea days. Hopefully he can bring back the mourinho charm to his united tenure
 
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