Mourinho to United | Officially Announced

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Hope he gives the young players a chance and he doesn't go into defensive mode anytime we face a decent team.
I expect his time here to end in tears but hopefully not as burnt to the ground as Chelsea.
 
Hope he gives the young players a chance and he doesn't go into defensive mode anytime we face a decent team.
I expect his time here to end in tears but hopefully not as burnt to the ground as Chelsea.
 
Insanity said:
It was an insurance policy because we fully planned to keep Van Gaal in case we reached top 4.
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I wish I could say I think that's utter bollocks. But I can't.

I won't pass judgment on Woody and the board before more details are known. If more details will ever be known, that is. But I might repeat for the umpteenth time what I've been banging on about for months: Woody's job should be at least partly about some sort of quality control: A running assessment of the manager. With an eye on keeping us where we should be as a football club – not a brand.

It looks to me as though LVG has been employed (knowingly or not) as a de facto caretaker ever since the nadir around Christmas. That's questionable in itself. But staring blindly at 4th as the be-all, end-all, using nothing – not even common sense – beyond pure mathematics...is even worse.

It's no way to run a football club.

But again – details. Perhaps it all makes some semblance of sense at the end of the day.
 
Mourinho and Keane don't get on too. Didn't Mourinho try to shake Keanes hand 5 mins earlier and Keane started having a go at him rightly.
 
Bojan11 said:
Mourinho and Keane don't get on too. Didn't Mourinho try to shake Keanes hand 5 mins earlier and Keane started having a go at him rightly.
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I dont think that qualifies as not getting on to be fair. Keane felt disrespected and went a bit potty. That's pretty mild when it comes to Roy Keane. At least he never showed up at his door like he did Tom Cleverly.
 
I hope it's CQ, from what I read on here he was entirely responsible for everything good that happened in his time with us.
 
Rado_N said:
I hope it's CQ, from what I read on here he was entirely responsible for everything good that happened in his time with us.
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Isn't he managing the Easter islands or some shit? What's happened to him?
 
Can't be Roy Keane surely?:lol:
 
SteveJ said:
René?
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Chesterlestreet said:
I wish I could say I think that's utter bollocks. But I can't.

I won't pass judgment on Woody and the board before more details are known. If more details will ever be known, that is. But I might repeat for the umpteenth time what I've been banging on about for months: Woody's job should be at least partly about some sort of quality control: A running assessment of the manager. With an eye on keeping us where we should be as a football club – not a brand.

It looks to me as though LVG has been employed (knowingly or not) as a de facto caretaker ever since the nadir around Christmas. That's questionable in itself. But staring blindly at 4th as the be-all, end-all, using nothing – not even common sense – beyond pure mathematics...is even worse.

It's no way to run a football club.

But again – details. Perhaps it all makes some semblance of sense at the end of the day.
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It is not. It's a ridiculous benchmark to judge the performance of any manager. And not only in regards to letting someone go, but may be in future there is a case of keeping someone in the job because of the work they are doing regardless of them finishing outside the top 4.

You are right that we cannot be 100% sure. Though the timing of the two managerial sackings definitely points towards that.

Like you said, the man in charge of our football operations should have enough football knowledge to make an assessment regardless of our final position on the table.
 
I know it's Stan Collymore so I'd take it with a pinch of salt... but he tweeted earlier that he'd been doing a bit of digging amongst Mourinho's circle of friends and suggested that Gary Neville's name kept coming up as someone who might be an inclusion in his coaching team.
 
Sigma said:


Interesting and I agree with Simon stone on a lot of things.

Why can't they just have more journalists as pundits, instead of footballers who know nothing.
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That's why I love BT's European Football Show as long as they keep Hargreaves away from it.
 
ZupZup said:
I know it's Stan Collymore so I'd take it with a pinch of salt... but he tweeted earlier that he'd been doing a bit of digging amongst Mourinho's circle of friends and suggested that Gary Neville's name kept coming up as someone who might be an inclusion in his coaching team.
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I think that'd be a good idea.
 
ZupZup said:
I know it's Stan Collymore so I'd take it with a pinch of salt... but he tweeted earlier that he'd been doing a bit of digging amongst Mourinho's circle of friends and suggested that Gary Neville's name kept coming up as someone who might be an inclusion in his coaching team.
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I'd like that.
 
Did Fergie have a problem with Rene? My only take on that RI tweet is that it's Roy Keane they mean.
 
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