We need to get our next move right. City have just only gone ahead and gotten the best in the business. The logical step would be get the 2nd best (some would argue best) - Jose Mourinho. I wouldn't mind a less proven manager like Pochettino. Either way, the board has to get this right, otherwise we're just a little fecked.
Guardiola confirmed to City... what does this mean for us?
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I can't wait till we finish ahead of City next year, and we all look back to this thread and laugh. Have some backbone FFS, remember the "Mourinho will win every league for the next three years" thread.
We signed our demise when we signed Moyes. Now it is damage control, and I'm sorry but for some reason everyone has the idea that other clubs are going to stand still for us whilst we rebuild. News flash, other teams are going to strengthen just as much as we are, but the difference is, we're starting from a lesser position.
Wouldn't we have got Mourinho by now (especially with the transfer window opening as he left Chelsea) if we wanted him? Looks like we are sticking with the Giggs planThis is very, very bad for us. Mourinho might be the only choice, but if he starts doing the same bullshit press conferences attacking Guardiola I'm going to be very mad.
I don't really get this at all. Giggs will also be stuck with the same squad that LVG has, which you presumably think is full of problems due to the fact that Mourinho won't be an instant fix. So, why would it be any different for Giggs? It has nothing to do with the markets either. I'm not a massive fan of Mourinho, but appointing him ahead of someone with no managerial experience makes logical sense.
Under two failed managers.
You are being far to romantic, hiring and firing is modern football whether you like it or not. We appoint Giggs to take on Arsenal/Wenger, Chelsea/millions/new manager, Liverpool/Klopp and City/millions/Pep would be the worst footballing decision the club will ever make.
Correct. We are fecked.
Fans need to take a stand with this club, while our rivals run rings around us, our own club is running rings around its own fans. Fans should not be giving a single penny to this club, until we see this club start doing their jobs right. They are paid to take care of this club, not incompetent at the jobs they are paid to do
I'd love Pochettino - he's ready for a big club imo.
Mourinho I hope. Mourinho, Pep. In the same city. Manchester derby. Rivalry. It would be great.
Interestingly what money are you currently giving to the club?
One positive being that hopefully the club now stop chasing a dream and just fecking hire Mourinho already
Roles have been reversed unless we tread very carefully, and by carefully I mean drastically.
Not just that, if City and United are going for the same players, they won't chose Ryan Giggs over Pep, he has a winning record as a manager and a player to be fair. Giggs has failed under two managers.
Not giving anything to the club
Yeah, and either way, he will day be at one. Plus he's terrific with young players as well. I don't think we will go for him though.
I don't really know what is contractual situation regarding City's players, but if some of the key players need to re-sign, the club will have to inform them and from there the information isn't safe anymore. It's best for City and everyone involved to control the release of the information by confirming it as soon as they can.
Further proof our club is run by a massive bunch of imbeciles.
They're happy for us to enjoy LvG, losses, draws, horrible football, more losses, philosophy, Giggs, more losses, routine sponsor announcements, pisstake press conferences, no trophies, declining youth facilities, dodgy signings, Woody, more losses, shit football, and all the while they're also happy for our neighbours to overtake us
They're happy for us to enjoy LvG, losses, draws, horrible football, more losses, philosophy, Giggs, more losses, routine sponsor announcements, pisstake press conferences, no trophies, declining youth facilities, dodgy signings, Woody, more losses, shit football, and all the while they're also happy for our neighbours to overtake us
We do not have the time to experiment, we fall behind it gets harder and harder to come back (like liverpool)
Giggs who has very very little experience over a proven trophy winner reeks of United penny pinching and being cheap (like how we got moyes instead of jose)
We are no longer the big dog in the yard and sentimentality and that crap will not help the club in the long run.
Well it's easy enough to say then. I love going United, I ain't stopping anytime soon. You support your club no matter what.
Wouldn't be surprised to see him at Madrid, Chelsea, PSG et al at some point, unless we snap him up first.
A predictably embarrassing meltdown
But this is the era of ed woodward, of course he is not going to do that
We want to be in for Simeone, not Mouriniho.
With Pep, now city have one of the best coach, will definitely attract the best players and the best youth prospects, backed by their unlimited funds. This could have been an enticing prospect to the rivalry. We have a lot of ground to make up.
Simeone, Pochettino, Mourinho would all do.
PSG is highly plausible, he played there, the fans like him and he liked the club.
Then he needs to f.r.o, as far as possible from the club.
Bring back Fergie!!
Another sad day in the office.
Some of us remember when we got rid of the Doc and ended up with Sexton and then Ron when all of the fans wanted Clough. We had a great set of squads but 2 duff managers. This led to another decade in the wilderness.
Pep was never really coming to us, too big for a club that can no longer compete on the money front or in the youth academy market. We've gone from the top to mediocrity with 2 different managers and a board without vision in just three seasons. The comparison with the Bitter's is quite remarkable - gross ineptitude at all levels.
Pep was never really coming to us, too big for a club that can no longer compete on the money front or in the youth academy market. We've gone from the top to mediocrity with 2 different managers and a board without vision in just three seasons. The comparison with the Bitter's is quite remarkable - gross ineptitude at all levels.
If you support your club you also want what's best for them. What we're being served up at the moment and the direction we're heading in under this board and owners are certainly something any supporter should be greatly troubled by.
City are about 3 steps ahead, in most aspects, to be fair.
As I prefer Mourinho, I am not too disappointed by this. But we need to get Mourinho for that...
First, stop getting your knickers in a twist. Since when did assistants have more power than the managers they worked under? If I recollect correctly, he was against the ideology preached by Moyes and they weren't on best of terms. Giggsy was groomed by ferguson too. Should we just ignore that for the sake of your argument?
We'll carry on making money selling shirts while they build their reputation by winning trophies and signing all the best players.
What dream? What has come from the club suggest we have known for a good while he was going to city, so we haven't even been trying.
You can be a catholic a jew, etc etc, do you have to go to church? no, I will support united, just never giving a cent to this club in the way they handle this club.
The bolded part is spot fecking on. No disrespect to Sir Bobby, but to have an out-of-touch dinosaur like him high up the ranks in terms of how the club is being run is plain baffling for a club like United.
I'm surprised so many have a strong opinion about this. 
Guardiola for us was always a bit of a pipe dream.
Guardiola for us was always a bit of a pipe dream.