After 29 years, 963 games and 35 medals, Manchester United legend Giggs to call it quits as he turns down Mourinho offer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...r-United-rejecting-Jose-Mourinho-s-offer.html
After sitting on his hands for both Moyes and LvG this was inevitable. had he demonstrated that was of some real value, other than by being a legend at the club, then he would have been a condition of the Jose deal. I suspect the hierarchy will be glad to see him move on to try his hand at management elsewhere. The new management team cannot afford to have even one disaffected or disgruntled face around the place, particularly one as high profile as Giggs. He needs to find a club that needs a makeover in terms of style - that will tell him whether he has what it takes, rather than just take on a club that plods along the same way whoever takes over. All the same , sorry to see him part company with the club, always a legend.
Truest post!! I don't understand why people keep counting the years that Giggs has been at the club. It's almost as though it is his birth right to go from player legend to managing the club. The two are different beasts in my opinion. He needed to prove himself as a manager at some level before ever vying to run the club. We certainly can't afford any emotionally charged choices after three quiet years. Look at Roy Keane and Gary Neville - can't see them ever getting a shot. If Giggs go out and prove himself to be a top manager, I'm sure the doors back to OT will always be open to him.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36665691 There we have it. Good luck to him. I seem alone in not greeting his departure with glee as if he's out stayed his welcome or something. Very strange.
I don't think there's much big deal there. Media has over-romanticizing the story. Players and legends leave the club all the time and Giggs is no different in that regard. If he is indeed apparently upset that he got overlooked for the job, then he obviously has sense of entitlement that he needs to address by proving himself first and foremost.
Good luck to him. I'm not happy he's leaving nor am I sad about it. If truth be told, he's been party to **** management for three years. I don't think the club owes him a living but he was offered a job.
The guy is stinking rich and won't have to work another day in his life. Quite why he thought it was his divine right to take over one of the biggest clubs in the world without any actual management experience does suggest a degree of naivety on his part regardless of any verbal assurances he thinks he was given. Do what everyone else does, go out, prove your worth as a manager instead of sitting beside one making stgupid faces and see what happens.
I'd love you to find a quote saying he thinks he deserves to be United manager. Your attitude towards him is ****ing weird man. By the way, Zlatan is not and never will be a United legend.
You tell him that ..................... As for Giggs, it is being widely reported that he believes the club has reneged on an agreement for him to take on the manager's job once LvG had gone. IF that is the case, then I believe that does display a great degree of naivety on his part. He hasn't even manager the U21's, why on earth would he imagine that the reigns of one of the most valuable sporting brands would simply drop in his inexperienced hands. I have nothing against the guy - apart from his moral compass - he is and always will be a footballing legend and one of the club's greatest servants - but so were Robson and Sparky but neither of them sat on their hands waiti9ng expectantly for one of the best sporting jobs in the world to drop into their lap. Giggs has to make his own may taking with him what he has learnt from some of the best in the world. Call it one of the best apprenticeships ever - if he can't make it after his time here then he never will. If he succeeds then he could be back sitting in our dugout in a few years time - but by then he would have proved his worth.
Oh, sorry you're right. In signing and so far achieving jack **** he is indeed a legend. As for Giggs, he was offered a demotion and so chose to leave. Anything else is press bollocks. Quite why that justifies such a sneery response to an actual bona fide United legend is beyond me.
This is what i call a player true legend.......ok a bit of a prat away from the game but so have countless other players....i wish him all the best in his quest to become a manager and it is better for him to do that away from united...
Exactly. Everyone banging on about how he thought he was "entitled" to the Utd job conveniently ignore the fact he was told he would go from being assistant manager to being at best assistant to Nicky Butt at the academy. Particularly given he still had a year on his contract as assistant and that has basically been torn up by the club so Mourinho can have his preferred assistant. Bet many of these are the same people who slated Moyes for driving out Eric Steele and Rene Meulensteen by demoting them in similar fashion.
He's gone. Official - http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-F...ment-ryan-giggs-leaves-manchester-united.aspx
