True; the pull of United and Mourinho together should overcome any doubts players have about missing the Champions League for a year. His arrival might also be decisive in getting De Gea to stay.
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True; the pull of United and Mourinho together should overcome any doubts players have about missing the Champions League for a year. His arrival might also be decisive in getting De Gea to stay.
He was pretty much the only personality big enough, famous enough and successful enough - at least in terms of achievements in English football - to replace Ferguson.
And he should've joined in 2013, but better late than never.
Time to stop fannying around, and show we mean business.
And he should've joined in 2013, but better late than never.
Time to stop fannying around, and show we mean business.
Has worked out perfectly for him. Finally gets the job he always wanted but managed to avoid the impossible 'following Fergie' part. Also won a league title while waiting around for Moyes / LVG to lower the expectations. Masterplan
Which other team has had an era like SAF or Busby? What we needed to do was stop with the "replicating SAF/Busby" nonsense and hire the best manager for the job. No-one expected SAF to stay as long as he did, we just hired the best guy available and look what happened.
As for Zlatan, I disagree, our success has been built on top older players mentoring top younger ones. It has absolutely not been built just on young players.
Very true. He also got his "Chelsea return" out of his system.
Free MUTV subscription. I'm sure Mendes made sure it is part of the deal.
Fantastic appointment
Jose would be crucial when it comes to attracting those superstar players, who can influence the games single handedly, which would have been very difficult for us with no CL and our last 2 seasons under LVG.
Jose would be crucial when it comes to attracting those superstar players, who can influence the games single handedly, which would have been very difficult for us with no CL and our last 2 seasons under LVG.
Why can't we poster have facepalm smilie?@King JoMo Stand
These people signing up with JoMo in their names are hugely mistaken if they think it'll result in them getting promoted faster, or at all.
Better than seeing "embarrassment" and it's relatives too often here, surely?I've had a couple of texts from City mates saying Pep will own Jose, which clearly means they're worried
If we look at ferguson's track record, yes he brought young players through, but his greatest success was being able to handle big players. I look at 2 examples of one in their prime, one learning the game, eric cantona and cristiano ronaldo. Yes ronaldo was young, but when ronaldo became a major player, the way Ferguson handled ronaldo was perhaps one of Fergie's greatest man management of any player
And has somehow managed to stay on good terms with the Chelsea fans.
I'm getting more and more sold on him as the evil genius we need
I've had a couple of texts from City mates saying Pep will own Jose, which clearly means they're worried
Pep does not have Lionel Messi to fall back on or that Barcelona team now, everything is a fair game now. City only managed CL football because of how bad we were, if we even managed one win during that horrible run over december time, who knows what could have happened
It's like:
For me, Moyes was the promising coach that we gave a chance to. His record at Everton *was* very good, but you feel some romantic notion of us being a club that always gives unproven talent a chance, and that talent subsequently proving itself, was at least partly responsible for his appointment. Ferguson himself was very big on it. I desperately wanted Moyes to succeed, but in his short time here, he never really felt like a Manchester United manager. Too overawed by the surroundings, although might have grown into it one day.
With Van Gaal, it was almost like we'd scoured around for a big name European coach, with a track record of success at the highest level, who was available. The anti-Moyes, if you will. And Van Gaal fit the bill. It wasn't so much that we were desperate for him inparticular. More that he was available, had a good CV, and 'would do'. But again, he never really felt like a Manchester United manager. Just a decent stop gap.
But Jose Mourinho does feel like a Manchester United manager, and a natural fit. Still relatively young, definitely hugely successful, with attitude and defiance to spare.
He is exactly what we need, and while i'm not the kind of person to get carried away, I think we'll definitely win the league under his tenure.
For me, Moyes was the promising coach that we gave a chance to. His record at Everton *was* very good, but you feel some romantic notion of us being a club that always gives unproven talent a chance, and that talent subsequently proving itself, was at least partly responsible for his appointment. Ferguson himself was very big on it. I desperately wanted Moyes to succeed, but in his short time here, he never really felt like a Manchester United manager. Too overawed by the surroundings, although might have grown into it one day.
With Van Gaal, it was almost like we'd scoured around for a big name European coach, with a track record of success at the highest level, who was available. The anti-Moyes, if you will. And Van Gaal fit the bill. It wasn't so much that we were desperate for him inparticular. More that he was available, had a good CV, and 'would do'. But again, he never really felt like a Manchester United manager. Just a decent stop gap.
But Jose Mourinho does feel like a Manchester United manager, and a natural fit. Still relatively young, definitely hugely successful, with attitude and defiance to spare.
He is exactly what we need, and while i'm not the kind of person to get carried away, I think we'll definitely win the league under his tenure.
It's there, just not in the list. Type out : facepalm : with no space between facepalm and the two colons.Why can't we poster have facepalm smilie?
I've had a couple of texts from City mates saying Pep will own Jose, which clearly means they're worried
Same but from a few of my liverpool mates (yes I do have 2 scouse "friends")
Like you say it's fear more than anything
Agreed. Many spread their spunk at the sight of Suarez now, even after what he's done to this club. :facepalm:
Edit: it doesn't work, you evil @Damien !!
A draw with Norwich at home would do
. However, we might not have rid of LVG after all.Cheers.
I was just double-checking because I had only just heard him on Sky.
Soon as aguero gets his inevitable mid season injury putting him out for some weeks then he will have to make do with BONY as back up.
Hell of a Long way from the likes of messi and lewandowski. I think they'll be the biggest spenders this window thoughWell I can't wait for the new season.
This was the manager I wanted 3 years ago, and he's finally here.
The most hated club in England has just appointed the most hated manager in football and are about to employ the biggest ego'd footballer in the world.
Can't wait
This was the manager I wanted 3 years ago, and he's finally here.
The most hated club in England has just appointed the most hated manager in football and are about to employ the biggest ego'd footballer in the world.
Can't wait
Soon as aguero gets his inevitable mid season injury putting him out for some weeks then he will have to make do with BONY as back up.
I don't think city are that far ahead of anyone, they were at our level. Mourinho has work mending our defense and our engine room, but? Jose has a dilemma with our attack, does he keep with our current options? I feel Jose wants to add one striker, but its important to keep Martial, Memphis, Lingard and Rashford in the fold, we actually have greater pace and the most potential of anyone, but no one should dismiss what Rashford done for us, with us perhaps being allot more quicker under Jose, our current options could easily thrive. I feel a RB 2 CB's 2 CM players and a striker could really be the options we need to go from strength to strength, but he does have a dilemma with the Europa league, does he concentrate on the PL? or PL and europa League? If rashford has a stellar european championships, Jose has some food for thought
A draw with Norwich at home would do
Cheers.
A possibility we will never see, we will see with Mourinho, is it the 2013 model? or the 2015 model? lets hope its not the latter
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Paddy is on.
Paddy Crerand: I always knew that Jose wanted to sign for us.
Paddy Crerand: I always knew that Jose wanted to sign for us.
Paddy as objective as ever
feck off Paddy. Two days ago he was saying LVG was going to be In charge for the next year and was yelling at that journo.Paddy Crerand: I always knew that Jose wanted to sign for us.
Van gaal still the manager.
The amount of revisionism I'm hearing right now is amazing.
Lou Macari: LVG played some 'awful football', he didn't really bring the youngsters through - they were 'forced upon him' due to injuries.
feck, I forgot the Paddy show!!
Technically he's not saying otherwise...
Thinking back on how close we are to end up with giggs as manager.....
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Liar Damo!
Liar Damo!
Okay, what should I ask Paddy?
Ask him about what happened to his show last monday
Ask him something controversial, like selling Rooney and sacking Giggs.
I can't wait to see who he buys now. If he's given the same patience extended to Van Gaal, Jose will have more than enough time to get us back to the top. I want to see us winning every damn trophy there is to win!
Agree with you and I add that we threw it away in the West Ham game when we were 2-1 up.
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