I see the LvG fandom are in tears
You really think this is the first good news in moths? I mean we won the FA feckING CUP just a couple of hours ago and you really think this is the first good news in months? Talk about spoilt fans.
He gave us Martial.
He discovered Rashford.
His handling of De Gea created the possibility for what happened, he signed a 5 year contract.
He discovered talents like Fosu-Mensah and CBJ.
Bastian Fecking Schweinsteiger is still a good player for us.
He gave us the first FA Cup since 2004, Arsenal's record didn't last long because of him.
And he didn't sign stop gaps (whereas most managers would) in positions like CB and RW instead opting to use what he had and wait and target somebody of the highest level because he wants the club to have the best players in the world / best young players.
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Can't believe that makes you miserable. What have you done for Manchester United that tops that?
The likes of @Von Mistelroum and @wiz4231 still won't believe it
It's alright. Your kidnapper also fed you a few times a day.
The idea that you would welcome this on the day that we won the FA Cup, it's ridiculous. If you've ever called another club's fans plastic, you need to take a look in the mirror.
Good Lord! He was fecking shite. Get over it.
Mou and Zlatan get along nicely and I think Zlatan fancies one final challange in his career, and that is to prove himself under Mourinho at Old Trafford.Maybe Zlatan wanted to be certain Mourinho is coming so he can make his decision
All this focus on 'class'. Some of you belong over on RAWK. We are a football club who want to win trophies and we were never liked under Ferguson so who cares now.
I feel really rotten that this news is overshadowing the FA Cup win.
YepBecause today is about winning the FA Cup not Jose.
I feel really rotten that this news is overshadowing the FA Cup win.
Mourinho is the best manager in the world, who would say no? And LvG leaves having delivered an FA Cup, i'd say it's the perfect ending and vindicates those who said he'll win something with us.
I will
You are a beauty mate
It's alright. Your kidnapper also fed you a few times a day.
He didn't 'discover' Rashford, CBJ, etc, they rose through the academy and for the most part he stumbled into needing them.He gave us Martial.
He discovered Rashford.
His handling of De Gea created the possibility for what happened, he signed a 5 year contract.
He discovered talents like Fosu-Mensah and CBJ.
Bastian Fecking Schweinsteiger is still a good player for us.
He gave us the first FA Cup since 2004, Arsenal's record didn't last long because of him.
And he didn't sign stop gaps (whereas most managers would) in positions like CB and RW instead opting to use what he had and wait and target somebody of the highest level because he wants the club to have the best players in the world / best young players.
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Can't believe that makes you miserable. What have you done for Manchester United that tops that?
I feel really rotten that this news is overshadowing the FA Cup win.
@Twigginater you should change your name to NoWayJoseI'm awaiting the influx of Jose Mourinho based usernames with bated breath.
Welcome @horvinho.I'm awaiting the influx of Jose Mourinho based usernames with bated breath.
@Twigginater you should change your name to NoWayJose
Boom fecking boom.Who gives a single feck about him? It's just added to the whole winning the FA cup feeling for me. Why do people give a feck about Van Gaal? We've been fecking miserable under his tenure and he's a complete grade A cnut.
Feeling sorry for him is equivalent to stockholm syndrome.
Mourinho isn't the big story today. It's the fact that we won the FA Cup with 10 men, with a cracking winning goal from one of our own lads, who absolutely fecking loves the club. We had an 18 year old centre forward terrorising Palace, despite the fact he hadn't even made his debut a few months ago. I screamed my lungs out when we scored/won. I was pretty indifferent when I saw the tweets about Mourinho.
As for Mourinho, it's probably the right decision in the context of what's going on in the PL and football generally. We've been in a tailspin since Fergie left that hasn't shown any signs of solving itself. Throwing money at the problem hasn't solved it. Our footballing decisions have been consistently bad. He's a great manager who, if it comes off, will make us competitive again. He might even win us a league or two. Right now, that might be enough to make the potential downsides worth it. Maybe.
But if the rumours are to be believed, Mourinho's people have leaked this. It didn't need to be tonight. If, as he claims, Mourinho is LVG's mate, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to let this run to next week and then, when the dust had settled, it could all be done. It didn't need to be released as LVG was waiting to do his press conference, regardless of what you think about him. The reality is, though, that he's not LVG's mate. Much like sharks outside of the Finding Nemo universe, people like Mourinho don't have friends, just people they haven't had the chance to dick over yet.
For me, though, the more obvious thing to take from all of this is that, prior to even being appointed, Mourinho and friends are dancing to their own tune. That's a sign of things to come. So when it all goes horribly wrong - which it undoubtedly will, at some point - whether he's brought us success in the short term or not, we'll be left having pissed off the agent that we've spent the last few years desperately trying to get into bed with. Our saving grace may be our ability to pay over the odds, which is grist to the mill for the likes of Mendes.
Past experience says that this will end in tears...prove me wrong Jose.
He didn't 'discover' Rashford, CBJ, TFM etc, they rose through the academy and for the most part he stumbled into needing them.
feck LVG. He's going out on a high, let's get on with it.
Still waitingWe're waiting.
He didn't 'discover' Rashford, CBJ, TFM etc, they rose through the academy and for the most part he stumbled into needing them.
feck LVG. He's going out on a high, let's get on with it.
It's alright. Your kidnapper also fed you a few times a day.
Fair point, forgot about thatFosu Mensah was an LvG signing. He brought him in the same day as Daley Blind.