Man Utd board warming to Inter Milan boss Mourinho

Who should replace SAF after he retires ?

  • Jose Mourinho

    Votes: 270 58.1%
  • Laurent Blanc

    Votes: 61 13.1%
  • Steve Bruce

    Votes: 8 1.7%
  • Roy Keane

    Votes: 4 0.9%
  • Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

    Votes: 25 5.4%
  • Fabio Capello

    Votes: 10 2.2%
  • Pep Guardiola

    Votes: 8 1.7%
  • Arsene Wenger

    Votes: 5 1.1%
  • Mark Hughes

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • David Moyes

    Votes: 17 3.7%
  • Gus Hiddink

    Votes: 9 1.9%
  • Ottmar Hitzfeld

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Eric Cantona

    Votes: 12 2.6%
  • Alec McCleish

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Frank Rijkaard

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Louis Van Gaal

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Mike Phelan

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Carlos Quieroz

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Dick Advocaat

    Votes: 4 0.9%
  • Harry Redknapp

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Marcello Lippi

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Martin O'Neill

    Votes: 19 4.1%

  • Total voters
    465
  • Poll closed .
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i'd rather mourinho succeed fergie than moyes, but i wouldn't be totally against moyes like i would the villa tracksuit.

however if we do get moyes, prepare for atleast 3 years of embarrasing and naive campaigns in europe. I for one hold european success very dear and higher than most supporters. I'd be happier for moyes to leave everton (as he'll never get backed there and has done the best he can with the bluescouse) and go to a CL team on the continent to prove his mettle.
 
Utter rubbish. Sorry - it's pure arrogance, or ignorance, to dismiss Moyes as a 'good mid table manager. Nothing more'...

For a start, he's got a side with one of the lowest budgets in the League into the top 4...

I think I've reached the point of giving up with you...

Only because Benitez was concentrating on the Champions League from February onwards, and even then Everton only finished 3 points ahead.
 
Im amazed how many people on here place little to no importance on the next manager for want of a better phrase having the balls for this job, replacing the greatest most successful manager of all time at arguably the biggest sporting brand in world football.....we know Mourinhio certainly wouldn’t be fazed by taking over from Sir Alex, on the contrary hed love it hed see it as a challenge, would Moyes/Oneill/blanc have the bottle to handle such a job? Doubtful and that’s a problem, it’s a gamble….such pressure of Sir alexs career hanging over them.....first defeat we have in the post Ferguson era the knives will be out, Fergie would have done this wed never have lost that game under fegie etc etc this is the sort of thing the new guys going to have to deal with....it could break a lesser man, Mourinhio would stick 2 fingers up to the press tell them hes gods gift and it wouldn’t bother him in the slightest, that’s the attitude were going to need, something you can guarantee with Mourinhio he can handle it, something you cant with Moyes et el because they’ve never proven it.

Amazing the Mourinhio bashers don’t seem to give the slightest thought to such things, its all about desperately criticising how many youth players he has or hasnt bought through whilst then at the same time using the argument of him not being at a club long enough as another stick to beat him with not realising one more than slightly contradicts the other…..surely if hes not stayed anywhere long enough for some folk then how can he be expected to show he can revamp an entire youth system and bare its fruits?

Frankly I don’t think Baldwin legend has a clue what hes on about, hes ignored 90% of the questions asked of him and then claims to not have seen any arguments worthwhile put forward…..the debating skills of a spastic.
 
Utter rubbish. Sorry - it's pure arrogance, or ignorance, to dismiss Moyes as a 'good mid table manager. Nothing more'...

For a start, he's got a side with one of the lowest budgets in the League into the top 4...

I think I've reached the point of giving up with you...

If you're going to credit him for taking them to 4th one year, then you've also got to credit him for the years when he led them to a respectable 17th and 11th.
 
Only within the context that some are actually proposing him to manage Man United. For me, he's a good mid table manager, managing a mid table side. Nothing more.

Whereas others see him as a top up and coming manager who has achieved great things at a relatively small club who looks ready to push on at a bigger club. Who knows who'll be right in 5/10 years?
 
Mourinho has just stated that he's staying with Inter next season.
 
But see, this is exactly the kind of argument those against the appointment of Mourinho use. Looking to diminish everything he's accomplished any which way they can.

How is the post you're quoting 'diminishing Mourinho' you spastic?

I was referring to you dismissing Moyes and Everton in as part of your pro-Mourinho agenda.

Surely a true fan should be happy to give Moyes credit where it's due?
 
No you haven’t, and thats just the ones asked by Elvis, you ignore what you simply have no response to which is 90% of whats put forward to you, then you claim they never existed, as i said, the debating skills of a spastic.

Which question haven't I answered?

I'm still waiting for Elvis to provide the names of just 5 youth players brought through by Mourinho...
 
Again, whats Moyes accomplished in his entire carear that makes him a reliable candidate much less than a better one than Jose? do tell....by the way just finishing top 4 would be seen as a failure at this club so you know, just incase you bring out the 'well he finished 4th with Everton once' argument.
 
How is the post you're quoting 'diminishing Mourinho' you spastic?

I was referring to you dismissing Moyes and Everton in as part of your pro-Mourinho agenda.

Surely a true fan should be happy to give Moyes credit where it's due?

That post specifically wasn't diminishing Mourinho but it's been done time and time again in this thread.

I gave Moyes credit a couple of pages back. Do keep up.
 
Again, whats Moyes accomplished in his entire carear that makes him a reliable candidate much less than a better one than Jose? do tell....by the way just finishing top 4 would be seen as a failure at this club so you know, just incase you bring out the 'well he finished 4th with Everton once' argument.

I've told you already - I've answered that question a ton of times throughout this thread and I'm not going to sit here typing it all out again just for you.
 
That post specifically wasn't diminishing Mourinho but it's been done time and time again in this thread.

I gave Moyes credit a couple of pages back. Do keep up.

Me keep up? You're the one answering quoted posts with responses which have nothing to do with the quote.

And please, drop the 'Do keep up' and other immature cliches - they don't do you any favours...
 
Which question haven't I answered?

I'm still waiting for Elvis to provide the names of just 5 youth players brought through by Mourinho...

You know precisely which questions, the ones Elvis repeatedly asked you 4-5 pages back which you dodged like the plague because you knew they’d show up your staggering contradictions and general hypocrisy on this topic, questions you had no answers for…namely "what was the difference between the way we played back in 08 to Inter tonight in the camp nou" as said at the time, we played EXACTLY the same way Inter did tonight 10 men behind the ball defending for our lives, ended the night with less than 30% of the ball and that was with 11 men and the next seasons world player of the year, not 10 men and a 2 goal lead to defend, yet you made a stark point of ridiculing Inters lack of attacking football tonight…..

As for the youth players question, do you not see the contradiction there? I mean seriously? You yourself on this very thread consistently bring up the fact Mourinhio hasn’t stayed at a club long enough for YOUR liking, now your saying he hasn’t bought enough youth through, well hold on smart arse, you do realise it takes time to bare the fruits of a youth system do you not? You don’t just lob a few 17 year olds into the team and shout bingo you do actually have to have potential quality youngsters at your disposal, they don’t just appear, added to that Chelseas youth system has been non existent since Terry came through what 10 years ago?, so you can label that (very weak) argument against every manager in charge at Chelsea for the last 10 years.
 
Again, whats Moyes accomplished in his entire carear that makes him a reliable candidate much less than a better one than Jose? do tell....by the way just finishing top 4 would be seen as a failure at this club so you know, just incase you bring out the 'well he finished 4th with Everton once' argument.

Do you not recognise the difference between Everton's budget and ours ?
 
Do you not recognise the difference between Everton's budget and ours ?

what was fergie's budget compared to the old firm but he still won notable things with aberdeen domestically and in europe.

i am not trying to slate moyes. he certainly has the raw tools. but for me, he needs to leave everton as he's done all that he can and go to a semi-big club on the continent that is in the CL year in year out and start stringing together good CL campgaigns for 3-4 seasons before he can be pedigreed enough to come to united.

If you took the top 200 players in the world and asked if they'd play for mourinho or moyes/o'neill...the vast majority would say mourinho. He commands instant respect from top players. They are willing to die for him on the pitch even if they don't personally like him. That is the kind of motivation and man management that mourinho has spades of that no manager under 55 has.
 
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