Pep Guardiola: I could see myself managing Manchester United one day

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...naging-manchester-united-one-day-9797074.html

I can see that happening in the next couple of years in my opinion.

 

That would be terrible. The most overrated manager in the history of the game.

 

^this^
Once LVG has finished building the team Pep could keep it running for a few years. It is when changes needed making that he would be shown for what he is

 

Where does that idea leave Lous Van Gaal and Ryan Giggs?

 

Sacked due to us getting relegated

 

Do not want. After van gaal it must be klopp.

 

Pep is an asshat.
Completely agree with Shtevie Boy, in La Liga, with the squad he had, Matth could have dominated that league as manager of Barca.

La Liga is such a ****e uncompetitive league.
Basically Real and Barca slogging it out, then once a decade Valencia or Atletico pop in and sneak a title, get their squads stripped by bigger clubs, then we are right back to El Classico fighting it out again for another decade.

Atletico are trying like hell to stay competitive, but it wont last.

 

Then he goes to Bayern and inherits one of the greatest club sides in the last decade who'd just won the treble!!

Until he takes an unfancied side like Porto or Inter to C.L glory he'll never be in Jose's league.

 

Its interesting why he turned Chelsea down, maybe because he would not cope with the 3/4 horse race for the title

 

Exactly, he knew that he would get shown up in the PL where the title isn't just a cake walk

 

Let's hope he goes to Man U and gets show to be the most overrated manager ever. How he's destroyed that entertaining munich side i will never know

 

To be fair he tends to follow van gaal everywhere so he probably will take over and be successful with us. Unfortunately most of us will be asleep during it.

 

Joining Man United would be his M O.
Go to a country, join the biggest club in it, where you are almost assured a title every 2-3 years regardless, then soak up all the credit like you have achieved something a ******ed cocker spaniel couldn't do, then high tail it out when it looks like the competition might start making it difficult.

The PL is a different animal, although United are the biggest club in the country, there is much more competition and the club isn't where it was 5 years ago.

Deffo his M O.
Let LvG go to a club in crisis, put up with the ****, build a title winning squad, then usurp said manager at the height of the clubs powers, win some trophies and vacate when the squad is on the wane.......

So if LvG gets you a title in the next 5 years, it wouldn't surprise me to see Pep jump in and try to latch on. If he wanted a real challenge, he should have taken the job last season that would have been a real test of his mettle.

 

He would have been given the £200m

 

eh?

 

The trouble with Pep is he never really adapted. The best managers do. He started a fantastic attacking footballing philosophy at Barca's B Team, which he brought to the first team. But then made the cardinal sin of believing the hype and becoming tunnel visioned, over-egging what was in essence, the right way to play football. Wenger is the same.

Both are now seen as pig-headed and limited, and rightly so, but both started with absolutely the right approach. Lets put this in perspective. The Barcelona of 2009 to 2011 and their style of football was a fcking joy to watch, and is considered by most to be the best club side ever. During that period, Barcelona didn't just win La Liga, demolishing all before them, they won two Champions League titles against the best in Europe. As a United fan I remember before the 2011 final, when asked about Barcelona's tactics, Guardiola simply replied "We will just play one way, the way we always play, attack football" And even though that sounded worrying, I thought, Fck yeh, respect. As a football fan, in the game, the way they pulled our players with their passing was sublime. Even Fergie had to shrug his shoulders at the end there. It's games like that, along with plenty of others during that period, that show Guardiola deserves full credit for what he's achieved.

Where it all went wrong is the over-egging of the tippy-tappy football. It became all about over-indulging the players and self gratification, rather than about the original philosophy of passing for purpose, hard work, high pressing, possession football. If it was up to me I'd make him watch Rocky 3, and tell him to get back the eye of the tiger

 

I think every single one of us that have sat in the stands at Old Trafford and felt the atmosphere there, and in our secret dreams wished the same as Pep Gladioli. Lets hope his stays a dream too

 

You must be joking mun, most dream of playing for United not managing.

GGMU

 

Depends on your age ClwydRed, with my past history of ***s, alcohol and other "activities" in a wild past, I doubt if I could run from the tunnel to the pitch. So its a dram of managing, not playing