I'm sure the £££££ board have a strategy in place that will involve all of the global suerstars handing in transfer demands to join Pep next summer (much the same as happens during Woodwards dreams). One or two may even come, only to find that they get their legs kicked from under them week in, week out and (like Di Maria) they will find that the shine soon wears off. With so many ££££ players either coming to the end of their contracts, or proving to be a little to fragile for the PL, this will be the first time that Pep will have had to assemble a squad to do the job - quite a different situation to what he is accustomed to, and in the harsh glare of the PL I suspect he will be found wanting.
I'd be surprised tbh - if we were going to take Mourinho we'd have done it at the turn of the year when we were eight games without a win and he had all January to bring players in. Either the board has now committed to LVG for the rest of the season, or we simply aren't interested in the short term fix Mourinho would bring. Not convinced we were ever in for Guardiola tbh, certainly not to the same level as City. That would probably have made his mind up - if City were 100% committed and willing to sack a reasonably successful manager to get him then but Utd weren't certain they would replace an underachieving manager with him it would send a pretty clear signal where he should be looking.
Indeed He is also used to leagues where a team from midtable stands no chance whatsoever of getting 3 points from a title contender. He is in for a shock here mate. City lost 3-0 at Stoke a couple weeks back Can you remember Barca or Real Madrid losing 3-0 at Malaga or Getafe? Or Bayern losing 3-0 to FC Eintracht?
Nah, I reckon United were holding off to see what Guardiola was doing. Now he is confirmed at City, United will make someone an offer. (Be it Mourinho or someone else)
Seems a bit of a pointless strategy imo - if we were interested then why not go for him 100%. All we would do by waiting is increase the chance of him joining another club, so the only reason we'd do that is if we weren't all that interested in him.
Come the end of the day who knows?...... For me if you want to challenge city over the next 3 years Mourinho is your best bet.
Come the end of the days the worlds best usually shine wherever they play,even if they go to stoke monday night in the rain.
20 league titles 3 European Cups 11 FA Cups 1 Club World Cup 1 Intercontinental Cup Tell me again who's Manchester's no.1 club?
I'd like to see if Pep can handle the likes of Leicester, Stoke or Tony Pulis FC? The Premier league is no cakewalk like those flat track bullies league he managed. It doesn't matter that he'll have the biggest resources and the best players, he'll still in for a massive shock.
Pep can't even win the CL with Bayern he has little chance of doing that at City. Just look at his tactics last season against Barcelona at the Nou Camp lol.
The fact he has gone to city has made me want mourinho more.. I do think we have at the minimum held talks with him... I don't think we the club want to sack LVG.. I hope he walks in the summer having failed to get cl football and we then appoint mourinho. I don't see much point appointing some of the other names being bandied about like conte or simeone. Neither have experience of the premiership, mourinho has. He at least would have a marginal head start over anyone else as he can see how utter **** we are.
Mourinho is a glaringly obvious option now. No sign of him touting himself for a job, and the fact he's been silent in not actively pursuing van Gaal's makes him go up in my estimation given how Guardiola has again accepted a job that isn't actually vacant, means he seems happy enough to wait till summer. The doubt for me in Simeone isn't so much he's never managed in the premier league, neither has Guardiola, but that he would be right up against it from the word go in trying to compete with and live up to what Pep is doing. I see him as someone who would like to come in and build, gradually. Having (probably) just got shut of van Gaal would that be what United are after? Probably not, they'd want someone to work at it quick. Pochettino should definitely be considered of course. Clearly very good, clearly ambitious, knows the league and the market etc. He'd jump ship, no problem.
