POLL ADDED: Would you want Jose Mourinho as the next Manchester United manager?

Would you want Jose Mourinho as manager of Manchester United?

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We don't need him to be long term, we have the likes of Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs who will hopefully do that.

We just need him to be brilliant for a couple of seasons, and get us out of this rut and back onto the Premier League and European map. Which history shows he doesn't know how to not be.
 
Don't all this short term vs long term talk anyway.The days of a top manager staying at one club for a long time are gone. Any other club in the world would kill for a league title or two in the "short term".
 
I'm surprised by the amount of people saying no. I'd have him as our manager instantly.
 
LennonNL said:
Why is everyone saying they don't want him? After a third of a bad season? He won the league last year.

Mourinho has been one of the best managers in modern football and I'd take him, without a doubt. Not if Pep is available though.
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Agree completely.
 
If Pep or Simone are not possible than, Yes i would take him if we part ways with LVG.

I dont think he will act the way he did at Chelsea at all if he joined. He did seem to think he was bigger than the club, like they were not his ultimate.

Whenever he speaks of United he seems in aure.
 
He's a proven winner who would make an instant impact. Right now I'd prefer that type of a manager to someone who may be a "long term solution" but need 2-3 seasons to "build their own team". A definite yes for me.
 
250 people want a manager who just imploded his championship winning side, threw all his players under the bus to try and cover himself, is an arrogant egomaniac like our current boss and plays even shittier football. :confused:
 
Devil may care said:
250 people want a manager who just imploded his championship winning side, threw all his players under the bus to try and cover himself, is an arrogant egomaniac like our current boss and plays even shittier football. :confused:
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Doesn't make him shite overnight....seems you don't rate him a top 5 manager of the world?
 
Member 5225 said:
Doesn't make him shite overnight....seems you don't rate him a top 5 manager of the world?
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What it makes him is a manager who took a title winning team and destroyed it with his enormous ego, he's went off the reservation and we don't need that here, we are struggling as it is, plus his style of football is boring.
 
I don't really fancy the unclassy pantomime he always brings with him. Plus he generally plays ugly football. So no.
 
I think we're going to go through a shitload of managers over the next few years. I wouldn't mind Mourinho's short-termism for a bit.

Now I don't think it would happen, but if he could come here and deliver a league title, fall apart and then go away I actually think that would be okay. Other than the fraud that is Diego Costa, I think Chelsea will be fine.
 
Devil may care said:
What it makes him is a manager who took a title winning team and destroyed it with his enormous ego, he's went off the reservation and we don't need that here, we are struggling as it is, plus his style of football is boring.
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He destroyed it did he?
His ego, rather than the players ego?
An ego like SAF maybe?
ps. Simply don't buy into the 'boring football' nonsense. His teams haven't been boring (1st Chelski, RMadrid, etc), and win > footballing 'style'
 
Voted no obviously but I'd rather him than Van Philosophy. Chelsea is a toxic club and maybe he'd far better here but I'd rather Guardiola definitely.
 
I'm afraid he'd park the bus.

But between him and LVG, I'd like Mourinho.
 
Member 5225 said:
He destroyed it did he?
His ego, rather than the players ego?
An ego like SAF maybe?
ps. Simply don't buy into the 'boring football' nonsense. His teams haven't been boring (1st Chelski, RMadrid, etc), and win > footballing 'style'
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No, SAF managed the bad times with us with a lot more tact and guile than Mourinho, who chucked his team under the bus and patted himself on the back for last seasons title win. Every winner has an ego to a degree, Mourinho's is rampantly out of proportion.

As far as not buying into his footballing style being boring, I've watched plenty of his sides over the last decade and I'd call it functional and flair free football, and to me winning is not everything, I'd rather be entertained and competitive with risk, than have his brand of drudge with his '1-0 with 20 minutes to go, bring on a DM' mentality. I'm sick of LvG but I wouldn't sack him to bring in another boring, arrogant, deflecting loon who wilted under the first bad run he's had in his managerial career.
 
Devil may care said:
No, SAF managed the bad times with us with a lot more tact and guile than Mourinho, who chucked his team under the bus and patted himself on the back for last seasons title win. Every winner has an ego to a degree, Mourinho's is rampantly out of proportion.

As far as not buying into his footballing style being boring, I've watched plenty of his sides over the last decade and I'd call it functional and flair free football, and to me winning is not everything, I'd rather be entertained and competitive with risk, than have his brand of drudge with his '1-0 with 20 minutes to go, bring on a DM' mentality. I'm sick of LvG but I wouldn't sack him to bring in another boring, arrogant, deflecting loon who wilted under the first bad run he's had in his managerial career.
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Would you have not taken Klopp then if he was available?
 
bleedred said:
Would you have not taken Klopp then if he was available?
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He didn't wilt, the team struggled in the first half of the season and he banded together with the players and took responsibility, then they worked their way back into a Europa Leagues spot in the second half of the season.
 
Devil may care said:
He didn't wilt, the team struggled in the first half of the season and he banded together with the players and took responsibility, then they worked their way back into a Europa Leagues spot in the second half of the season.
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Who knows what would have happened if Mou stayed for the rest of the season. Also why is it wrong to throw the players under the bus if they are not playing well??
 
If you want titles and trophies back at the club then Jose is a must if we can't get Pep.

I'm shocked at the people saying NO. Some people need to realize if we feck up this next manager appointment then we are DONE as a top force in world football. Jose would have us back amongst the elite, and I honestly think that if there was one job that would keep him focused and give him the need to want to stay long term, it's this one.
 
bleedred said:
Who knows what would have happened if Mou stayed for the rest of the season. Also why is it wrong to throw the players under the bus if they are not playing well??
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He quite clearly lost the dressing room. He had lost their faith, trust and belief. So throwing the players under the bus in that situation is like having an ambulance at the bottom of the hill. The problem was Jose.
 
bleedred said:
Who knows what would have happened if Mou stayed for the rest of the season. Also why is it wrong to throw the players under the bus if they are not playing well??
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You can throw players under the bus if they act badly, if they are not playing well but act professionally you have to support them.
 
Devil may care said:
He didn't wilt, the team struggled in the first half of the season and he banded together with the players and took responsibility, then they worked their way back into a Europa Leagues spot in the second half of the season.
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They were in the relegation zone (i.e. worse than where Chelsea are now) during the winter break.
 
ken11 said:
I'm afraid he'd park the bus.

But between him and LVG, I'd like Mourinho.
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This is the thing with Jose he knows what he's got, if he think he can beat a team he'll play, if he thinks his team are vulnerable he'll defend first, hardly a bad attribute.

The thing that worries me is the youth, and whether he's tarnished his name with big players and will struggle a bit in the transfer market.
 
I'm really not sure. He's a better manager than LVG but look what's just happened at Chelsea.
He needs a break in my opinion but we can't afford him that if we can't get Guardiola.
 
Mourinho at United is actually an interesting prospect because United don't have a typical Mourinho team, it's a young and inexperienced roster, so he will have to adapt a lot, he will have to be a teacher and a manager.
 
JPRouve said:
Mourinho at United is actually an interesting prospect because United don't have a typical Mourinho team, it's a young and inexperienced roster, so he will have to adapt a lot, he will have to be a teacher and a manager.
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The trouble is I dont know if he can adapt because he has been using the same principles and the same way of playing since he first started. If players didnt change their game to suit Mourinho then he sold them. It wasnt a case of Mourinho adapting to his squad but the other way round. One of the best examples of a very good player who couldnt adapt his game was Joe Cole. I mention this as just one example because Mourinho doesnt change to suit his players, he changes players to suit him.
 
Devil may care said:
No, SAF managed the bad times with us with a lot more tact and guile than Mourinho, who chucked his team under the bus and patted himself on the back for last seasons title win. Every winner has an ego to a degree, Mourinho's is rampantly out of proportion.

As far as not buying into his footballing style being boring, I've watched plenty of his sides over the last decade and I'd call it functional and flair free football, and to me winning is not everything, I'd rather be entertained and competitive with risk, than have his brand of drudge with his '1-0 with 20 minutes to go, bring on a DM' mentality. I'm sick of LvG but I wouldn't sack him to bring in another boring, arrogant, deflecting loon who wilted under the first bad run he's had in his managerial career.
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Re football - but Fergie did that on countless occasssions
 
It'd be interesting to see if he brought his usual entourage along with if he came here, or whether if under a condition of getting the job he have to have Giggs or similar as his number two, mind you that might actually be quite annoying, really think Giggs need to go when LvG does.
 
JPRouve said:
Mourinho at United is actually an interesting prospect because United don't have a typical Mourinho team, it's a young and inexperienced roster, so he will have to adapt a lot, he will have to be a teacher and a manager.
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He'd most likely just sell the players who don't fit in for him - like with Mata, De Bruyne, Lukaku
 
bleedred said:
Who knows what would have happened if Mou stayed for the rest of the season. Also why is it wrong to throw the players under the bus if they are not playing well??
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Because it's not good man management, you don't go out publicly, accept zero blame and then throw the people who you want to play well for you under the bus. The moment the problems started at Chelsea his true colours shone through, he couldn't handle everything not going his way.

NinjaFletch said:
They were in the relegation zone (i.e. worse than where Chelsea are now) during the winter break.
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I know, and Klopp kept his team together and got them to the top 6, Mourinho set a match to his..

Member 5225 said:
Re football - but Fergie did that on countless occasssions
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Post Ronaldo/Tevez we were regularly horrible to watch, no argument there, but we still played to kill games off with goals rather than DM's.
 
Member 5225 said:
Re football - but Fergie did that on countless occasssions
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Damien said:
He'd most likely just sell the players who don't fit in for him - like with Mata, De Bruyne, Lukaku
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I don't think he would, because most of our young players can potentially play his style but they need to learn it:

-------------De Gea
Darmian-Smalling-newplayer-Shaw
-------Schneiderlin-B2B
Winger-------Herrera-----Memphis
-------------Martial

Who is he going to sell from them? We lack the old/leader players and he will have to create them.
 
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