BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho

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

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Adebesi said:
I reckon Sky know perfectly well he's coming, but have been instructed to keep a lid on it for now, and are towing the line in order to protect their longer term relationship, or in exchange for some specific scoop in coming weeks. Whereas Sky Italy have no reason to play along with this pretence of not knowing.
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Eh? This is becoming just a bit too far-fetched.
 
Rednotdead said:
Eh? This is becoming just a bit too far-fetched.
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Just a bit. When has an outlet known for reporting news, rumours and feint links ever kept a lid on news, rumours and feint links? If they had a concrete story for Mourinho to United, they'd have it plastered all over their channel and website, immediately. No way they have the story but are keeping it hush.
 
Ancelotti on joining Manchester United in 2013:

"Sir Alex wanted me to become the manager of Manchester United. We had a nice lunch, he chose an expensive wine. I had already spoken to Real Madrid, If it hadn’t been for that, I would have come, 100%."

It's statements like these that make me think (or hope) that Jose is coming. Ancelotti states that he'd 'spoken' to Real, it seems that most of the deals in football are verbal until the paper work is necessary. If you think about the number of approaches Jose has supposedly had over the last 6 months, all of which have been either denied or he's said he's not interested, all but one that is.... It seems to me he's already 'spoken' to United and the deal is done.
 
Twigginater said:
I know, the idea of Pedro, Rahman Baba and Falcao strutting their stuff. :drool:
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Did he really have a big say in all those transfers though?? It's not like he had complete control over who he wanted at Chelsea was it??

He'll have complete control here about the ins and outs and there won't be any excuses.. Provided we can seal the deal on his preferred targets..

Edit: Assuming he is our next manager that is..
 
Member 5225 said:

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Well if someone working on social media for Adidas for 25 grand a year doesn't know where he's off to then no one does.
 
Pilib de Brún isn't only full of nonsense, he loves in depth nonsense as well, like knowing about inner conflicts inside the club and who likes and hates whom, and all that from someone co hosting a show on radio.
 
Didn't Sky Sports report last year we were about to sign Gundogan? Look what happened there. The only media outlet I trust in regards to football news is the BBC.
 
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Pilib de Brún isn't only full of nonsense, he loves in depth nonsense as well, like knowing about inner conflicts inside the club and who likes and hates whom, and all that from someone co hosting a show on radio.
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Pretty sure de Brun has interviewed people from the club for his show in the past, which would put him on level ground with others who we routinely retweet here.
 
Raoul said:
Pretty sure de Brun has interviewed people from the club for his show in the past, which would put him on level ground with others who we routinely retweet here.
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Correct. He's a passionate fan and not afraid of posting his views, however, he's certainly got contacts in football and regularly interviews people in the game.
 
Raoul said:
Pretty sure de Brun has interviewed people from the club for his show in the past, which would put him on level ground with others who we routinely retweet here.
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Interviewing people from the club doesn't give him access to any information regarding the relationship between board members or fergie and woodward and whether they hate each other or not, that's like me claiming i know exactly what happened between giggs and his wife because i ran into neville and had a chat for a minute, that makes him a proven bullshitter as far as i'm concerned, he makes up shit for attention and followers, we hammer red issue for the same thing here. It's much easier to tolerate journalists who only talk about transfers.
 
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Interviewing people from the club doesn't give him access to any information regarding the relationship between board members or fergie and woodward and whether they hate each other or not, that's like me claiming i know exactly what happened between giggs and his wife because i ran into neville and had a chat for a minute, that makes him a proven bullshitter as far as i'm concerned, he makes up shit for attention and followers, we hammer red issue for the same thing here. It's much easier to tolerate journalists who only talk about transfers.
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It puts him on level ground with a lot of journos who also don't have any inside information about the inner workings of the club but still get retweeted here. Remember, the twitter thread is generally fact free and full of conjecture, so Pilip's tweets wouldn't be starkly different to those of the likes of Tancredi, Castles, that Chilean "expert", Ducker et al. If we limited tweets to only the likes of Di Marzio, Mathieson, Ogden, and Mitten, the thread would be pretty boring.
 
I'm pretty confident Mourinho will be our Manager before the start of next season, very relaxed about it infact.
 
Rednotdead said:
Good article which puts the circus into perspective :

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...jose-mourinho-to-man-utd-circus-34715239.html
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This has to be the most protracted managerial appointment in football history.
Given the huge build-up (similar to that of a big budget Hollywood blockbuster), when the announcement is made, it has to be done in a manner befitting of a huge Hollywood blockbuster.
A minor/quiet/low-key announcement just won't cut it for me, any more.
 
Didn't we first contact Van Gaal months before Moyes got the sack? But he kept the job till Champions League was impossible. Same will happen here, it'll be in his contract we can let him go without top 4 but we'll let him get the FA Cup before sending him on his way. Nothing will be announced before then but I don't think there is anything to worry about.
 
LonelyFire said:
Correct. He's a passionate fan and not afraid of posting his views, however, he's certainly got contacts in football and regularly interviews people in the game.
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I don't know the bloke, don't have a dog in the fight, but here's my view fwiw: he works inside the football media, in a rapidly growing sector and has regular access to people who know things in the game, whether they be on the footballing or journalistic side. Quite a lot of those people speak to him regularly so they build up a rapport. They're also being paid, I assume, for their contributions, so they'll be quite happy to discuss things with him both on-air and also, I would suggest, off-air. I don't think he holds himself out as being a super ITK or anything but he does appear to be someone with contacts within the game and also senior contacts within the club. Football is one of the most gossipy professions going. Like all people who work in an information sharing field he'll sometimes be told something that isn't the case, or something that isn't true and people will hammer him for it. Journalists who've been working around the club for decades can't get to the bottom of the story conclusively. Some of them have different views and/or sources of information. If they can't pin it down beyond doubt what hope for anyone else?

So, yeah, I'm sure he gets things wrong at times. I also know he gets plenty of things right. That doesn't mean that when he tweets or offers an opinion that it has to be through the prism of being the Internet's favourite ITK, with a mole in every boardroom. In fact, I'm pretty sure he himself has said he's not holding himself out as some top level journalist who has a line on every story. Those people don't exist. Use the Caf's favourite, Di Marzio, for example. Ask yourselves what you actually believe the extent of his 'powers' are. It's like trying to figure out the logistics of how Santa could deliver gifts to every child in the world in one night.
 
Sky Sports don't have on-the-beat print journalists that have direct, necessary lines into people at Old Trafford.

Media is a two way street. Football clubs know that newspaper journalists - or those at the BBC - can be beneficial to a specific cause. Sky Sports are a news channel that offer no such purpose. They're essentially pointless and social media is rendering the channel obsolete.

Stop getting worked up about their reports.
 
sunama said:
This has to be the most protracted managerial appointment in football history.
Given the huge build-up (similar to that of a big budget Hollywood blockbuster), when the announcement is made, it has to be done in a manner befitting of a huge Hollywood blockbuster.
A minor/quiet/low-key announcement just won't cut it for me, any more.
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It needs LVG loaded into a cannon in the middle of the OT pitch, Ed shouts "You're fired!" and the cannon blasts him over the stand and into oblivion.
 
Brophs said:
I don't know the bloke, don't have a dog in the fight, but here's my view fwiw: he works inside the football media, in a rapidly growing sector and has regular access to people who know things in the game, whether they be on the footballing or journalistic side. Quite a lot of those people speak to him regularly so they build up a rapport. They're also being paid, I assume, for their contributions, so they'll be quite happy to discuss things with him both on-air and also, I would suggest, off-air. I don't think he holds himself out as being a super ITK or anything but he does appear to be someone with contacts within the game and also senior contacts within the club. Football is one of the most gossipy professions going. Like all people who work in an information sharing field he'll sometimes be told something that isn't the case, or something that isn't true and people will hammer him for it. Journalists who've been working around the club for decades can't get to the bottom of the story conclusively. Some of them have different views and/or sources of information. If they can't pin it down beyond doubt what hope for anyone else?

So, yeah, I'm sure he gets things wrong at times. I also know he gets plenty of things right. That doesn't mean that when he tweets or offers an opinion that it has to be through the prism of being the Internet's favourite ITK, with a mole in every boardroom. In fact, I'm pretty sure he himself has said he's not holding himself out as some top level journalist who has a line on every story. Those people don't exist. Use the Caf's favourite, Di Marzio, for example. Ask yourselves what you actually believe the extent of his 'powers' are. It's like trying to figure out the logistics of how Santa could deliver gifts to every child in the world in one night.
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He's a good lad and certainly no wum. You're pretty much bang on - he doesn't claim to be some hot shot gossip specialist - as you correctly point out, they don't exist.

The appetite for transfer junkies has got so ridiculous.
 
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