They've been too generous with time, if anything.
D. McDonnell - the Mirror: Jose will be sacked this weekend | BBC: Jose still has board backing
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They've been too generous with time, if anything.
Thanks for the update ❤
What makes you say retraction rather than McDonnell was wrong? Surely the latter is much more likely.
As far as I know, there's been no quote from the club, if Jose truly had the board's backing there would be an official statement. The timing sounds about right too ahead of the international break to give them some time to negotiate and hire a manager.
Can't believe there's people who want to give this guy more time?! Don't they see the environment he's created?
They shouldn’t have appointed him. But whoever they appoint should be for the long term and given time. They are incapable of seeing past the next financial year. Moyes was a ‘cheap’ appointment, more short-termism. They could give him six years knowing full well it would cost very little to end that deal.
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I agree with you, every reports add a little something that makes the whole thing nonsensical. Why would you have a meeting with the manager just to tell him that he is safe, why would you talk about "imminent" threat?
Then there is the reports that says that they didn't meet to talk about the manager's position, the one that initially talked about the sacking and the ones claiming that the club refuses to comment.
They either all know something or they don't know anything, either way we can't trust any of them.
Exactly what I'm thinking. Too much smoke not to be a fire. Jose is done.
Mourinho can be sacked by end of the season 8 months later and the guy will come and claim his source was right.
If he's not sacked this weekend then he's simply a fraud.
Instead of waiting for a reply, turn your laptop or phone upside down and work backwards through the thread.
. ‘Your job now is to stand by our new manager’
When they going gets tough the Glazers get sacking.
Look at how he has developed Spurs in the short time he has been there. I’d prefer a holistic way of doing things at our club, academy youth development etc. for long term success. He also favours attractive football as a bonus.
How can you not want this?
The De Gea reports make sense and his agent is Mendes anyway.
If we are backing him where's the statement from the club or some official quotes?
Not too sure, was commenting on the thoughts of some posts which said the Neville rant may have changed the club's mind. I agree that's unlikely.
Bless you for passing over the fact that the word prenuptial appears inexplicably in the middle of my post. Think it was an autocorrect that ought to have read "potential".
I find it hard to imagine the club appointing a caretaker for 8 or 9 months. I can see the sense in what you're suggesting - I will be pissed off in the extreme if we end up just appointing whoever is the most famous manager who happens to be at a loose end when Mourinho goes, and would be very encouraged if it seemed like some serious long term thinking going into transforming our performances on the pitch.
The counter argument is that many incoming managers will need time to transform the team - seems like that was the case with Liverpool's and City's most recent appointments, and also, albeit in a failed way, van Gaal. There's probably some sense letting a new manager hit the ground running next season. In the other hand I guess Sarri is showing that you needn't necessarily write off the first year though and that rapid transformations are possible.
He's a Mourinho acolyte. Few were as happy as him when he was signedHow can you not want this?
No he isn't. He's reporting what someone has told him.
I'm talking about the whole thing, not them in isolation.
Presumably the club don't want to give credence to rumours and gossip.
On the other hand if Jose is sacked before our next game - McDonnell deserves huge credit.
Dreaded vote of confidence then so he’ll be gone soon. It’s basically what every club says just before sacking the manager
I thought the wording of this retraction was interesting by us.
It wasn't 'we're going to stick by the manager etc' it was a 'we've not made any decision'. I think that speaks volumes.
With regard to the leak, no it doesn't look good on the club at all. It didn't when LvG got sacked, and it doesn't now. It's a difficult one as it may not be necessarily Woodward's fault someone in the board has leaked it, but at the same time if that conversation has taken place, just do it now! The board have essentially made a rod for their own back by delaying.
It wasn't 'we're going to stick by the manager etc' it was a 'we've not made any decision'. I think that speaks volumes.
With regard to the leak, no it doesn't look good on the club at all. It didn't when LvG got sacked, and it doesn't now. It's a difficult one as it may not be necessarily Woodward's fault someone in the board has leaked it, but at the same time if that conversation has taken place, just do it now! The board have essentially made a rod for their own back by delaying.
There are not easy games for United at this point. Before the season started most were predicting we'd start the season unbeaten with the "easy" fixtures, apart from Spurs but even that would normally be a win. Jesus, I get more deflated every time I think about our start to the season and what we have coming up in the next 7 matches.
Do you see how quickly RM and Bayern shut down any nonsense that comes out of their club - we need to take a leaf out of their book.
If the sacking doesn't happen this guy will lose all credibility.
Downside of that approach is if they don't deny rumours in the future, everyone assumes it must be fact.
If this is false information, we could be seeing a man's career destroyed. His confidence is immense and it would be unprecedented in sports journalism for someone as respected as him to come out and say this if it was false.
But if he does... hell be tier 1 imo. Hell then get three managerial sacking scoops. Moyes, LvG, Jose.
Depressing thread title update to wake up to.
I get what you're saying but I feel we need to just nip certain things in the bud. Our name is in the press far too much recently it's not a good look.
That Mirror quote on LVG getting sacked after Stoke game, which we lost 2-0, just proves that they are absolute frauds.
Everyone know this is Mourinho last season. They're just jumping into it and as I said, even if he's sacked next year the fraud will come and say his source was right.
That's a good point. The fact the he went live tv to stick by his story suggest that his source is rock solid. But Sam Lee said as much yesterday.
At least he's not playing dodgeball and is sticking by his story. Seems like an honest chap, he's put his reputation on the line but seems immensely confident.
Depends who writes for the Mirror. Mullock and McDonnell are reliable journalists.
I am dreading the next seven games. It could be a pleasant surprise, but more likely we will have to sit through a mass humiliation.
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