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Ninja
Ancelotti looks set to replace him (or does he?) and his availability will put United, City and Chelsea on alert. With City reportedly the favourites to get him. Chelsea will shaft Mourinho sooner or later (or will they?) leaving him as a consolation prize to whichever of the Manchester clubs doesn't get Pep? (who am I kidding we're going to appoint Giggs). Benitez will be out of work by the summer leaving Madrid looking for a new manager again, having burnt through everyone available already will they go for Zidane? Or might Pellegrini be tempted to go back?
Of course, now I've started this thread nothing will happen.
Ninja
Franck
Zidane is Real Madrid's man in the long run, but they will probably appoint another lame duck to keep the seat warm while he gets more experience.
I'd love to see Mourinho in charge of Roma. Never going to happen though, best they could hope for is Spalletti coming back, though I'd put my money on Mazzarri getting the job and just fucking everything up.
Mourinho will probably end up taking a sabbatical, unless he really fancies the PSG job.
United will keep Van Gaal for a third year, then they'll appoint Giggs as his successor, just to make everything even worse.
Franck
Ninja
I'm not even sure he'll make it till then.
Jonas
Franck
Sam
K3V0
Pep off to City then I'd assume.
Sam
Looks likely. More annoying because in the past he said he'd love to manage United one day.
If he becomes City manager that'll never happen.
Ninja
Rest seems open and shut.
Sam
Poe
Based Jorge
United: Mourinho
Chelsea: Simeone
Liverpool: Klopp
Arsenal: Zombie Wenger forever
Ninja
But I think either appointment basically sums up the muddled thinking of the post Fergie thinking at the club.
The Platypus
Who would you want?
Sam
Despite my reservations about Mourinho if I had to choose between the two I'd definitely take him over Giggs.
I'd rather we get Pep but that won't be happening. Giggs could be a United manager in the future, but he's needs to gain experience.
Ninja
Ideally Guardiola, but I think we all know its not going to happen.
What I want to see is ideological consistency within the club. We appointed Van Gaal after Moyes, and therefore invested in a manager who was going to get us playing football in a certain way. Guardiola is undoubtedly a better manager, but he wouldn't need to rip things up and start again, the clubs already going towards a way of playing that is similar to his teams.
We appoint Mourinho and thats not true, as verse said in the other thread we've got a lot of players that don't really suit him. The £40m on Mata's down the pan for starters.
There's just no real consistency to what we do. We sort of lurch from one half-baked idea to another, be it the 'next Ferguson' in Moyes and his six year contract because he's from Glasgow, to whatever we were trying to do with van Gaal.
I don't think the club realises what its doing at the boardroom level and has basically only ever done half the job. When Ferguson retired we didn't need to just replace the manager, we needed to replace the man who had complete and sole responsibility for the clubs 'vision' for 25 years and was responsible for basically every single football related decision the club made. Instead, we've appointed two men, one who was completely out of his depth based on a whim (which is what we'll do with Giggs if we appoint him) and another who is a short term manager who we've actually been quite lucky with in a lot of ways, because he's done a lot of things with the future in mind which he didn't and doesn't need to do.
The guy in charge of making long-term footballing decisions is now an accountant with no background in football and it shows, because we've been amateurs behind the scenes. Compare it to, bleurgh, City, who have got a professional, knowledgeable behind the scenes team and its night and day.
Don't get me wrong, I'll take Mourinho, but if its only Mourinho which is undoubtedly will be, we'll carrying on mis-stepping.
We're basically basing everything on finding the next Ferguson and then finding, unsurprisingly to everyone outside the club, that that person doesn't exist.
Carroll.
Sam
Doesn't look like anything is going to be announced today, but of course that could all change.
The Platypus
Shola
Ninja
Yeah they've had their mis-steps, but there seems to be a general consistency to what they do. Be it the Etihad Campus or the pursuit for Pep they seem to have a grasp of how they want to achieve it, not just what they want to achieve.
We don't have that, our secret to success is to give the manager full control, because thats what Fergie had, which leads to huge instability when every new manage tears it up to start again.
That said, we've never done anything as stupid as buy Mangala for £42m so there's that I suppose.
Sam
Good article on Mourinho for anyone who's interested. Long read.
Ninja
Eric Portapotty
The end of Rodgers' time was something similar imo, it might have been baseless rumours but when his job was virtually untenable it was only a matter of time.
Sam
Even Trevor Sinclair was joining in.
The only one of note is Jan Aage Fjortoft, who said there is a lot of activity at United. The deafening silence from the club is very telling.
Woodward's meeting ended up being unrelated too.
Sam
Also, Bild report Arsenal are in talks with Pep.
Based Jorge
Maybe if Pep extended his contract by a year or stated he was taking a year sabbatical it may happen but I think Wenger reckons he still has a little bit more to offer.
VP.