Fergie will have some role, more than likely ambassadorial rather than involved in the team decisions.
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As above.
If Mourinho arrives after Fergie retires, he should be left to get on with his job himself.
If Fergie still wants to have a say, then he shouldnt retire.
Make that 24 for Blanc
he wont, he said when he is done, he is done
Manchester United are sounding out Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola as they plan for life without Sir Alex Ferguson within the next couple of years.
Ferguson said in May 2008 that he cannot see himself managing Manchester United by his 70th birthday which is just under two years away.
According to the News of the World, Barcelona boss Guardiola may be asked to take on a coaching role at Old Trafford next season as he is groomed for the manager's job at United.
Guardiola's contract at the Nou Camp ends in June and it is thought that he will wait for the results of Barcelona's presidential elections to decide on his future.
Guardiola's agent Jose Maria Orobigt said, "A club has contacted me but there have been no discussions over money or the sporting project. Anything like that is up to Pep."
Guardiola had a stunning first season as Barclona coach, winning an unprecedented 'treble' of domestic league and cup and the Champions League. His side were impressive in beating Manchester United in last year's final in Rome and United fans would likely welcome Guardiola's brand of attractive attacking football.
Ferguson said in May 2008 that he cannot see himself managing Manchester United by his 70th birthday which is just under two years away.
According to the News of the World, Barcelona boss Guardiola may be asked to take on a coaching role at Old Trafford next season as he is groomed for the manager's job at United.
Guardiola's contract at the Nou Camp ends in June and it is thought that he will wait for the results of Barcelona's presidential elections to decide on his future.
Guardiola's agent Jose Maria Orobigt said, "A club has contacted me but there have been no discussions over money or the sporting project. Anything like that is up to Pep."
Guardiola had a stunning first season as Barclona coach, winning an unprecedented 'treble' of domestic league and cup and the Champions League. His side were impressive in beating Manchester United in last year's final in Rome and United fans would likely welcome Guardiola's brand of attractive attacking football.
Would be a massive risk.
It's also bullshit.He's after reassurances at Barca.What better way than to come out with the usual "there are other clubs after me" spin. He'll stay as long as they are winning
The chances for him to leave his club are veeeery small. The chances that he would take up a coaching role at United under Fergie even smaller
Lineker: Jose Mourinho will be back at Liverpool or Manchester City
Read more: Gary Lineker: Jose Mourinho will be back at Liverpool or Manchester City | Mail Online
Personally, I hope he does go to Liverpool or City in August as it'd rule him out of ever taking the United job. Or would some of you still take him 3 years down the line when SAF retires if he's been at City or 'pool?
Read more: Gary Lineker: Jose Mourinho will be back at Liverpool or Manchester City | Mail Online
Personally, I hope he does go to Liverpool or City in August as it'd rule him out of ever taking the United job. Or would some of you still take him 3 years down the line when SAF retires if he's been at City or 'pool?
Why would anyone want a manager of that quality joining either Liverpool or City? hed be a massive improvement on either Benitez or Mancini and the top players would also be attracted to either club with him there.
Both clubs would immediatly be much greater threats to us under Mourinhio.
Both clubs would immediatly be much greater threats to us under Mourinhio.
Neither Mancini nor Benitez will leave their clubs in the summer, so the point is moot.
Heh?
imo they both will.
The questions not difficult....
Rubbish.
The only way Benitez will leave is if another job comes his way, possibly the Madrid one. Liverpool can't afford to sack him. I think everybody will just write it off as one terrible season, and look to the fact that next year couldn't possibly get any worse.
And no way will City sack Mancini. He's done a decent enough job there, and they'll give him at least one summer to bring in the players he wants, and to try and push them into 4th place (If they don't get it this season, which they may well do).
Why are you saying that as if it's facht? If Liverpool finish outside the top 4 Benitez could go and isn't it generally accepted that Mancini will go? I think his contract is even only till the end of the season with an option to renew...
It's only a hypothetical question anyway - ie: would all the Maureen-fanciers still accept him if he came straight from City or Liverpool - but I actually think the chances of Liverpool or City replacing their manager this summer are fairly high...
They don't have to sack him - isn't he just on a 1 year contract initially?
I wouldn't mind seeing Mourinho at Liverpool. He's a bit of a dick and would flounder with no transfer budget.
Not sure, might be.
Still, I think it's obvious to us all that Mourinho wants the United job, and if he has to decline an offer from City or Liverpool to get it, then I'm sure he will.
Besides, I'm not even sure if Liverpool could afford him.
Gary Lineker, nuff said.
That's unlikely.
Not really, and besides that's not the point. Both clubs could well be in the market for a new manager come August and he'll be first on their lists.
Come on, anyone who thinks City wouldn't love to potentially beat us to Mourinho must be kidding themselves. If they think they can get him this summer - and they probably can - they'll definitely try.
I have to say, I think he'd suit them perfectly. His brawling, brash style fits hand-in-glove with the 'Welcome to Manchester' style and he'd love the transfer funds...
Someone made an interesting point on Sunday Supplement today - if City wanted to keep Mancini, why did they only give him funds to sign Viera on a loan in January? If they wanted to back Mancini they could have offered him far more funds...
Like he did at Porto?
Still one of the best clubs in the league. He fluked his way to a Champions League win. I don't think he's any better than Rafa at all.
Why isn't Martin Jol one of the options in the poll? I think he's a cracking manager.
Cos it's the most fickle poll ever? Martin Jol is so 2006 mate...
I dont want Mourinho. There’s too much of a circus that surrounds him - we dont need that at United.
Who ever takes over is going to have a circus around them media wise. Might be best to have someone who can deal with it in next.
Sorry but WTF? Mourinho not better than Rafa? That's like saying that Megan Fox isn't any hotter than Jeremy Clarkson!
You sir are not entitled to an opinion!
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Nice to see Mike Phelan reads redcafe.
Rafa: 1 champions league win. 2 La Liga's
Mourinho: 1 champions league win, 2 premierships, 1 Serie A, Portuguese league.
And Mourinho's been at much better clubs.
2 Premierships being the key hint.
It will only be amplified if its Mourinho.
There will be headlines about him in the paper every day.
Well, winning 2 La Ligas with Valencia in a league dominated by Barca and Real is much more impressive than winning two Premierships with Chelsea, bank rolled by Roman.
Well, if you look at La Liga in the few seasons before Valencia's wins, it's hardly a Barca-Real duopoly...
I wish people would stop peddling this myth that Benitez broke the Real Madrid/Barcelona La liga stranglehold/monopoly, its just bollox, anyone who watched La liga around that time will tell you the same, for one there was no Madrid/Barca monopoly to speak of as one look at the tables around the time will show you.....and two both Madrid and Barcelona were pale imitations of the clubs they are today and were years before that period, Madrid were coming off the back of their galactico era and were really struggling and Barcelona were only just starting to build what theyd eventually become 2006 onwards.....both clubs were in transition and major transition at that at the time and Benitez (with Hector Cupers team i might add) made the best of it.
Dont buy into the Liverpool fans propoganda about Benitez at Valencia, its rubbish.
Dont buy into the Liverpool fans propoganda about Benitez at Valencia, its rubbish.
Yes and no, while I'll happily admit that Rafa did a very good job with Valencia our beloved Mourinho twice beat Sir Alex to the premiership and that in itself is always going to be an outstanding acclomplishment.
In the last 25 years, there has only been 4 seasons where Barca or Real have not won the title.
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