Not strongly, apparently they said to the AP he wasn't under immediate threat, that's still a threat.
D. McDonnell - the Mirror: Jose will be sacked this weekend | BBC: Jose still has board backing
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Not strongly, apparently they said to the AP he wasn't under immediate threat, that's still a threat.
"Fans have too high expectations", "Man United shouldn't dwell on past glories" -- these were LvG's statements. This isn't disrespect?
I hated LvG's comments far more than Jose's football heritage rant. At least Jose is leaving behind a better squad than LvG's, he's not as bad as the latter.
What a pathetic mess if we've got cold feet, when everyone wants him gone. So Jose wants out, the fans want him out, and the club do too, and yet....he remains.
He said it will happen this weekend. If it doesn't then he loses credibility.
Between games, before games, after games.....it's all the same as it equals failure and uncertainty. It's funny how we now are talking about the timing of it, rather than why? Hats off to Jose's people if it's 'leaked' by them as the focus is now back on the club, and away from him. Gary feeling 'sorry' for Jose after spending half the time lambasting his football? The worlds gone mad and football is full of hypocrites. Yep always feel sorry for managers that are rewarded with 6-8 million pound pay offs for failure. Most of us end up with a months wage and a trip to the benefits agency....Never understood how the richest managers in football, are the ones that fail the most, cause they get paid huge amounts for failure (early) only to walk into another job....how many pay offs Moyes has had for feck all? He must have 10m in his account since being sacked here....
If he's not here after Newcastle then our briefing to press association was worthless. Well get absolutely slaughtered for that as well. I can't see him going now for at least another couple of games after Newcastle today.
We didn't get the whole story though, only Rio's side of it, and everything is done by video analysis now any way, absolutely everything.
One other reason why we're in so much turmoil. We as fans also share some responsibility. If I were the board I would go ahead and sack him anyway, and let Neville bitch as much as he wants, and endure the boos of the fans, because it's the right bloody thing to do to get rid of this toxic man.
We didn’t want to upset Gary Neville
He said a "source" told him, now they are saying it was going to happen but they've put it off. They've already changed the story to one where they are always in the right without having to back it up. "I was going off the information I was given by a trusted source." It will have no effect on him, it never does.
Or absolutely certain it would get them millions of hits?
From Mirror live updates. It's them who are saying they strongly denied. Ah well. Whatever. They still denied it and therefore they can't sack him now until at least he fecks up further.
Imagine believing for a second Mourinho could or even wants to turn this around. I don't want to believe the club is this stupid.
So rumours going around that Jose's agent was the leak on him getting the sack, now the board are claiming (via BBC tweets) that they will back the manager.
This is a circus. If anyone is interested, Newcastle are $9 to win tonight.
This is a circus. If anyone is interested, Newcastle are $9 to win tonight.
Journalists live and die by their sources. As I said he wouldn't have put the original story out there if the source wasn't solid. He did the same with LVG.
While I agree that he has to go but I did not like how LVG was fired and would not like to see Jose going THAT way. "The state of this club atm." is my thought also. Embarrassment of a club living on past glory.
Nothing he said there compares to Jose's blatant disgusting Sevilla rant and his subsequent dig at players, fans and board. Jose is a cynical bastard. Sorry, I'm in total disagreement with you here.
These reports are frankly stupid. They are basically saying that he is under pretty big threat but also that he isn't under immediate threat. They are playing both sides here, I suspect that they have been told that the club wanted to control the timetable.
I don't see it happening unless are are battered today. Think United will win well and save Jose for another month or so.
They really don't. People will still buy the papers or click on the stories without reading who even wrote it. In football people believe what they want to believe. There's no journalistic standards or integrity in the English football media.
Think how weird the mood will be if we win today, how the feck has it come to this?
I'm willing to take bets that Jose will still be here in 3 games time.
The club is a fecking joke. We were clearly going to sack him but then they got cold feet.
Quivering fool - Woodward is. Shouldn't be anywhere near Man Utd.
The club is a fecking joke. We were clearly going to sack him but then they got cold feet.
Quivering fool - Woodward is. Shouldn't be anywhere near Man Utd.
It isn't as straightforward as pro-Jose and anti-Jose. The mess at the club isn't as simple as Jose - good, Woodward- bad, there a numerous levels of feck ups happening at all levels from players to board. Making it a binary situation seems naive to the point of stupidity.
Another month my hole, he'll be gone after the Chelsea game. It's so obvious and horribly predictable.
Backed or not, is there much point keeping him here? The players clearly don't want to play for him.
For every game we win were gonna be shit in another one.
For every game we win were gonna be shit in another one.
I think he's lost the players, but imo, it's typical MUFC. We will sack him when top 4 is dead.
We do it all the time. This time, Jose's agent thought it would be a good ploy to boost favourability in the short term.
I bet we lose today? Imagine the players thinking he's gone, then he's not
What the feck does that do to your preparation?Spot on mate, can't disagree at all. Guess we're resigned to more of this crap.
Sorry state of affairs
Another soured weekend then? Oh well, guess we can bite the bullet and wait some more.
Has it been announced The Mirror and all affiliated with them have been banned from Old Trafford yet?
As soon as you thought about it last night, the more likely it was going to be that it would be denied, irrespective of whether it was even true. The Mirror forced the club's hand in that respect.
Of course it could have simply been another blatant lie, one of many and yet some fans, embarrassingly so at this point, so driven by irrational hatred, that they'll believe anything that supports their agenda.
As soon as you thought about it last night, the more likely it was going to be that it would be denied, irrespective of whether it was even true. The Mirror forced the club's hand in that respect.
Of course it could have simply been another blatant lie, one of many and yet some fans, embarrassingly so at this point, so driven by irrational hatred, that they'll believe anything that supports their agenda.
What a shitty thing to wake up to.
They should just bite the bullet and sack him now.
He's not a long term solution and things seem to be getting worse instead of better. It looks like he has lost most of the dressing room and I can't see that turning around.
What's the point in keeping him on? We couldn't do any worse under a caretaker manager/new manager so why delay the inevitable?
The atmosphere around the team is toxic at the moment and I can't see it improving until Jose is gone.
Yeah, you can bet they are going to do just that, especially now that Gary has spouted his usual guff.
There were no obvious signs in their first few years with Sir Matt and SAF either.
I am glad they are not sacking him this weekend, if true. I was ashamed of the club last night, and although the last 24 hours have done little to relieve me of my concerns moving forward it was no way to go about sacking the manager.
Jose Mourinho's best days as a football manager are certainly behind him, but I absolutely guarantee you that Woodward will botch a new managerial appointment and the cycle will continue. Best thing about this latest mess is Gary Neville's rant bringing Woodward to the public eye in the mainstream media. These decisions need to be made by footballing men, not bankers. Nothing will chance with the club having the current set-up it does. The club is a disgrace and the Glazer mafia will continue to run it as is.
Jose Mourinho's best days as a football manager are certainly behind him, but I absolutely guarantee you that Woodward will botch a new managerial appointment and the cycle will continue. Best thing about this latest mess is Gary Neville's rant bringing Woodward to the public eye in the mainstream media. These decisions need to be made by footballing men, not bankers. Nothing will chance with the club having the current set-up it does. The club is a disgrace and the Glazer mafia will continue to run it as is.
Different times entirely.
The situation isn't binary, far from it. However the supporters have largely been divided into 2 vocal groups as such, and that was my original point
Yeah, the Valencia game was very different! We had one shot on target at half time so not even comparable!
The performances under Van Gaal in 2016 were much worse than 2018 under Mourinho
0-0 haltime. Zero shots on target
Even I had had enough
I'm one, but I'm sure there are others who will literally never believe a word the guy says now after this. For a guy that was up there with the country's best journalists, this is going to be devastating to his career and life in general if it's found to be false. If it's been leaked to him, he better be exceptionally sure of the source. I mean, it's still his fault for believing it but I have great sympathy for what he is about to go through if proven wrong.
The ridiculous thing is the club seemingly bottling this decision makes them look even worse than they did last night. Impressive.
God I hope not.
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