BBC: United hold talks with Mourinho

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

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What the feck is that Sky tweet. :lol:

Pretending that they know about Mourinho but admitting they don't know about Van Gaal in the same breath.
 
Talk about covering both ends....

Imagine the conversation. Right Louis, if...and I mean 'IF' you decide to retire this summer, not that we want you to, obviously, but just if you do retire, then we are going to give Jose the job.
Now let me just say, we don't want you to retire, we are just acting, just in case, obviously
 
Raoul said:
Sacking Moyes after the calamitously criminal mistake of appointing him in the first can't possibly be viewed as a some sort of achievement. Once that happens, whoever made the original choice has to be removed from making future decisions. As for Woodward, it is obviously extremely relevant since he had feck all football experience. Abramovich didn't need any since he managed to appoint fecking Mourinho to advance his cause. I don't know anyone who actually thinks Woodwards investment banking background is good for how we perform on the football field. At best, he would be adequate to work on sponsorship deals alongside a proper director of football who actually has a clue on how to get transfers done.
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More than adequate for the commercial side I would say. He was brilliant at the commercial director job or whatever it was he had. If he had been kept away from the football side of things he would have been an amazingly successful servant for the club.
 


It seems like this story is just happened because this reporter thinks he will stay, no where does he say anything else :lol:
 
Yes I think it's very likely Van Gaal will remain manager when we already have a successor lined up should he leave...
 
Sounds like the club is just trying to force LVG to retire, save face from sacking him - did think this morning that the DDG stories were leaked our end to put the pressure on.
 
"No Louis, we want you to stay, you're great...I mean unless you're saying you'd like to go?"

:lol:

Sky don't know anything.
 
LeftyBlaster said:
I'm arguing that Louis shouldn't be allowed, for any reason to be allowed to stay whether he meets targets or not.
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Oh ok. Then I respectfully disagree. My opinion is that if it is written in black and white, then we honour it. If that means him staying one more year, then so be it.
 
Adebesi said:
Something my father never recovered from.

The two things my parents drummed into me as a kid:

Thatcher is Satan incarnate.
Brian Clough is the best manager in the world.

(That of course was before SAF came to England.)
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Post Busby...Post Fergie, eerie looking symmetry being created. Run!
 
Kag said:
If Van Gaal had succeeded then you probably wouldn't be making this point, to be honest.

Bad decisions isn't necessarily sign of structural incompetence. On paper, allowing Ferguson and Charlton the chance to make decisions made sense. Football men, great experience, knowledgeable etc, etc. I don't necessarily agree with that premise myself, but it's a worthy point. It works at Bayern, for example.

Appointing Van Gaal made sense at the time, too. It simply hasn't worked out under him because the football hasn't been good enough, not because of the Glazers or Ed Woodward. The noises around the club seem to indicate a lot of structural change within the club, anyway. Academy, scouting network, a possible sporting director of some sort? I think we'll be quite alright.
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Very well put. We will be quite alright.
 
Big Andy said:
Well he's gonna be sacked, most likely, but I reckon they'd let him spin it as a mutual decision/early retirement so he can go perform sex masochism on Truus in Portugal...
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He can't really spin it at his decision and still claim the cash for the rest of his contract, though. If he resigns he won't be due compensation. How many managers of top clubs ever resign now? Can't think of any - and fair enough perhaps, they all have agents who would tell them they would be mad to.
 
Raoul said:
Sacking Moyes after the calamitously criminal mistake of appointing him in the first can't possibly be viewed as a some sort of achievement. Once that happens, whoever made the original choice has to be removed from making future decisions. As for Woodward, it is obviously extremely relevant since he had feck all football experience. Abramovich didn't need any since he managed to appoint fecking Mourinho to advance his cause. I don't know anyone who actually thinks Woodwards investment banking background is good for how we perform on the football field. At best, he would be adequate to work on sponsorship deals alongside a proper director of football who actually has a clue on how to get transfers done.
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No, Moyes in itself was not an achievement. But to have a get-out clause in his 6 year contract was a good one.

And yes, I may be the only one who thinks Woodward's background is beneficial. I don't think his background directly affects how we perform on the field, but it has impact on how we negotiate any sort of deal or any sort of contracts. That will indirectly influence things.
 
Sky Sports' James Cooper is at Old Trafford and has said this about the breaking news involving Jose Mourinho and Manchester United:

"I think the facts as they stand are that Jose Mourinho would love to be the next manager of Manchester United - the recent months and weeks have told us that.

"There's been an awful lot of posturing from one side and not from the other. Manchester United know that Mourinho is available and that he would love to be their manager, but from inside the club, Van Gaal is still rated, admired and liked by an awful lot of the big hitters here so I think a lot would have to shift and change in Mourinho's favour.

"I think United fans want a change, they want to see more entertaining football and see their team challenge for the Premier League titles and many of them this time last year wouldn't entertained the thought of Mourinho as United manager, but now I think a lot more of them would be getting on board and would like that to happen."
 
Massive Spanner said:
is it really more competitive, though? Debatable.

By the final day of the season there was still more to play for in La Liga than the PL, including the title.

is it more unpredictable?

Leicsester winning the league this season was certainly unpredictable, quite incredible, actually, but aside from that, has it been overly unpredictable? Most years the top 4 is largely very predictable (last season being an example), as well as the relegation candidates. La Liga is hardly 'predictable' in comparison. Nobody predicted Atletico winning the league a few years ago, nobody predicted Villareal getting top four so soon after promotion, nobody predicted Sevilla dropping so far, etc. etc.

"The difference in quality of the top teams is also patently obvious."

This is only true because our top teams are weaker than they were 5-6 years ago, when the PL was arguably the best league in Europe.
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Ha, so for the very reason you discount Leicester's pl win (as being an anomaly) you use Athletico's one time win as reason for La Liga being equally as unpredictable. On the last day of the season, we could have finished 4th and gotten CL, or finished 8th and been out of Europe completely.

Chelsea finishing 10th was entirely unpredictable. Tottenham coming close to winning the PL was unpredictable. Us, Arsenal and City battling for fourth was unpredictable. Our staggeringly inconsistent results to bottom half teams while beating most of the top half was unpredictable. Bournemouth, Watford and Leicester doing so well was unpredictable. There is a growing trend in the PL (especially with increased tv money) for shock results happening so frequently that they can hardly be called shocks.

People can paint it any way they want but you can't compare the PL in terms of unpredictability to other leagues. Quality comparisons is a different debate.
 
Sky Sports Breaking news: crack investigator sources say out of work manager Mad Mou is somewhat unlikely to become Man Utd club manager whilst another man (Loony Louis) continues to be contracted as club manager.

I think RAWK are probably more clued in to this situation than Sky.
 
Scorpy said:
Sky Sports' James Cooper is at Old Trafford and has said this about the breaking news involving Jose Mourinho and Manchester United:

"I think the facts as they stand are that Jose Mourinho would love to be the next manager of Manchester United - the recent months and weeks have told us that.

"There's been an awful lot of posturing from one side and not from the other. Manchester United know that Mourinho is available and that he would love to be their manager, but from inside the club, Van Gaal is still rated, admired and liked by an awful lot of the big hitters here so I think a lot would have to shift and change in Mourinho's favour.

"I think United fans want a change, they want to see more entertaining football and see their team challenge for the Premier League titles and many of them this time last year wouldn't entertained the thought of Mourinho as United manager, but now I think a lot more of them would be getting on board and would like that to happen."
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If that is true then our club is a fecking shambles and we're about to head into the dark ages of football.

fecking pathetic.
 
NEWS JUST IN: Unconfirmed reports that if a club is to change manager the old one must leave first.
 
They've basically said, if Mourinho does get the job then it will be at the expense of Louis Van Gaal. Talk about squeezing all they can out of it.
 
Maybe this is just a leak to the press before LVG announces 'his decision' to leave/retire at the end of the season.

Everyone saves face and nobody has to use the 's' word.
 
Almost as good as this one from last summer, when De Gea had only 1 year left on his contract

 
I'm annoyed I clicked on the Sky story, thinking it was an actual piece of news.

Next will be 'Kane to be Euro top scorer IF he scores more than anyone else' FFS
 
pseudo_canadian said:
Bullshit, mate. What's your source??
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Let me take you live to my correspondent outside Carrington: for the past 4 hours he's been counting the number of cars coming in and out while reading a book about self improvement. He hasn't spoken to anybody in the know but he's somewhat good at slightly rewording things that we've already announced.
 
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