He's hardly Pulis, but his football has, for a long time, been very defensive-minded and quite negative. He can often stifle attacking players to a certain extent, and will happily see his side play some poor stuff if they win. And of course, when his teams do win, it's relatively understandable, but it's not exactly working at the moment.
He's hardly Pulis, but his football has, for a long time, been very defensive-minded and quite negative. He can often stifle attacking players to a certain extent, and will happily see his side play some poor stuff if they win. And of course, when his teams do win, it's relatively understandable, but it's not exactly working at the moment.
My thoughts have changed on Jose as well, if we cannot get Pep or Ancelotti when we should get him. LVG has run his course.
1)Pep
2)Ancelotti
3)Jose
dont want Mou per se, but it could just be because Mourinho is a superior manager to Van Gaal.
I will join you. fecking hell you'd have to wonder about the competence of those running the club should this be the case.
Why would that be any different to this season?
I'm hoping and preying Gaz Nev turns Valencia into world beaters and becomes the hottest property in football management
It is happening but there are other managers, it will be less straightforward but we can find the right man.
Not the best start, but it's too early maybe he can make his mark, although I kinda doubt it with Valencia as style, culture is pretty different and unfamiliar for him..
If people make assumptions (however likely they are) and end up undermining Pellegrini, that's on the assumers.
As long as Pep doesn't say the words, he's technically in the clear.
If we get top 4 i don't think the board will give a feck about missing out on those two. Their measures of success are very different to ours.
Because the other coaches just got a hell of a lot better and I assume their teams will get better as well.
City and Chelsea will find it easy to attract players with their new coaches, who are more attractive to play for than LVG IMO.
But, I mean, City will finish ahead of us this year, so makes no difference to our top 4 prospects
He is the only manager who I would want to be sacked before his team kicked a ball. Absolutely hate the guy and that would change if he won the treble at United.
you don't even know who Chelsea's manager will be, assuming Jose is sacked
City are already in the top 4 this season and it won't be any different next year.
Erm, what we're seeing now I'd guess, but he'd be better than lvg I believe.
Pep or Carlo are gettable and I'd be happy with either.
Well apparently Pep is going to City and Carlo to Bayern...
I'm trying to paint a picture in my head what it'll look like two years from now.
So we can continue our process.
I bet you don't like that picture.
I can't really see a point here.
IF he decides to leave one of the best team in the world, it won't be for one fighting for the top 4 in PL. I mean, as good as he can be, he did well for Barca and Bayern, already top teams full of wonderful players.
We are a completely different project. How many players in our squad fit his philosophy of tikki takka ? We don't have enough, and his work would be based on rebuilding after LVG. It's a big risks for him.
And I can see that PSG, City or Chelsea would be also on him. PSG and City have better squad to work with.
It would be great to have him because we know that we'll have huge quality and a manager that makes things happen, and play offensive football sometimes with 5 strikers on the pitch like he does this year, but we're not in pole position.
IF he decides to leave one of the best team in the world, it won't be for one fighting for the top 4 in PL. I mean, as good as he can be, he did well for Barca and Bayern, already top teams full of wonderful players.
We are a completely different project. How many players in our squad fit his philosophy of tikki takka ? We don't have enough, and his work would be based on rebuilding after LVG. It's a big risks for him.
And I can see that PSG, City or Chelsea would be also on him. PSG and City have better squad to work with.
It would be great to have him because we know that we'll have huge quality and a manager that makes things happen, and play offensive football sometimes with 5 strikers on the pitch like he does this year, but we're not in pole position.
This will be incredible if we manage to botch another managerial appointment. Munich moved Heynckes on in favour of longer term with Pep - incredible we are not being as ruthless. The fact that our competitors are in the market for a manager has to be relevant in our search.
Letting Guardiola go to City is going to be a huge mistake.
Letting Guardiola go to City is going to be a huge mistake.
He will go to City I can bet with you. His close friend Bergiristan is there so it would be better for him. City is a fair safer place for his legacy
It is just as the Redcafe prophecy foretold....
So Pep to city is next on that list and then giggs in 2017
United are waiting a sign from Guardiola ignoring Ancelotti.
Guardiola plays like a princess being wanted by every club in the world.
Ancelotti will loose patience because he's number two on the list.
Guardiola will either stay at Bayern or go to City.
If he stays at Bayern, City and United will fight for Ancelotti.
If Guardiola goes to City, Bayern will attract Ancelotti.
In all this, LVG will leave, and we'll be left behind.
I suppose that we want Guardiola for the marketing image (Woodward is there) and we are waiting after him.
Guardiola plays like a princess being wanted by every club in the world.
Ancelotti will loose patience because he's number two on the list.
Guardiola will either stay at Bayern or go to City.
If he stays at Bayern, City and United will fight for Ancelotti.
If Guardiola goes to City, Bayern will attract Ancelotti.
In all this, LVG will leave, and we'll be left behind.
I suppose that we want Guardiola for the marketing image (Woodward is there) and we are waiting after him.
Klopp had a similar meltdown last season. Yet many would gladly have him if he was free.
That's why the logical thing is to fire LVG and sign Ancelotti, it's best to "only" have Ancelotti than take the chance of missing on Guardiola and Ancelotti.
Perhaps, although his Dortmund side weren't already the previous seasons champions. Dortmund don't have the financial clout Chelsea do, and he managed to have a decent finish to the season. If Mourinho could oversee an upturn in Chelsea's fortunes, he'd be worth more consideration.
Yup, from a strategic position this makes a lot of sense.
Get pep, pay him whatever he wants and give him a blank chequebook.
No, he took the title challenge to the last day in his first season.
Did excellent in first season.
Do we really? I never understood their reputation to begin with.
Appearantly managers are judged on the quality of their players, as far as they're judged. That doesn't really seem sensible given the state United's squad has been in for years. I find it difficult to find decent reasoning behind it. Mourinho failed to win the CL despite enormous resources and time given, he messed up big time with Real, and now he's messing up Chelsea.
It would be reasonable to rate LvG like that around 2005 or something, like someone who has lost his touch or who's ideas are outdated. But if he then proves again he can turn mediocre squads into champions than it's only reasonable to acknowledge that he still can do things others can't.
Maybe we all overrated United. Maybe it's just a form top club heading into mediocrity because they can't do without SAF and the fans are just spoilt and don't have the stomach for a rebuild.
I guess that United also wants Guardiola like that City won't have a top manager. I really think that there's a checkmate situation with these coaches between the two clubs.
We all know that we're less attractive than them now. Just sack LVG now and give Ancelotti the job asap. It would force Bayern to do their upmost to keep Guardiola, and "only" having the second choice. Then, City will be in difficult position with a new coach.
The board are not aggresive enough, and we're always loosing on these fronts. We took Van Gaal, only because the lack of top coaches, not because he was the natural choice.
We've the possibility to attract an equivalent of SAF in terms of manager, and we're waiting for Guardiola....
That's exactly what City will do.
If I cared about our current results you would be right, unfortunately I don't. I just don't trust the rebuilding plans, I'm allowed to have an opinion right?
The problem is that I had doubts about the plans for almost 11 months now and while the results were decent, I was of the opinion that I was wrong to be worried, now I am more and more skeptical.
http://www.footballfan.zone/1/guardiola-announcement-has-united-and-city-scrambling/?
Manchester United, Man City and Chelsea are on red alert after Pep Guardiola told Bayern Munich he will be leaving Germany this summer, rejecting the chance to side a new deal with the German champions.
Bayern reportedly offered the former Barcelona man a 20 million euro a season deal but according to Marca, Guardiola will reject, feeling his time at the Allianz Arena has come to an end.
Manchester United, Man City and Chelsea are on red alert after Pep Guardiola told Bayern Munich he will be leaving Germany this summer, rejecting the chance to side a new deal with the German champions.
Bayern reportedly offered the former Barcelona man a 20 million euro a season deal but according to Marca, Guardiola will reject, feeling his time at the Allianz Arena has come to an end.
We definetly have more purchasing and pulling power than city if pep were to join.
Money is the one thing we're really good at. City still have to occasionally weave around ffp.
I can put money on this club not winning he title for 10 years if this happens.It is just as the Redcafe prophecy foretold....
So Pep to city is next on that list and then giggs in 2017
Jose's stock has dropped massively for me with the current position Chelsea are in. If he can get them back to winning ways then he'll be special again. But for me, right now, he's not special anymore.