There was a talk of the Glazers putting on a 15% cut on all the United-related expenses, excluding the first team. Now City announce Pep as their manager next season, while we are stuck with LvG and Mou still being available. I do not think that Woody is responsible for this, however, I am sure the owners are not going to invest in the club. Hopefully, they will sell us soon.
Guardiola confirmed to City... what does this mean for us?
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Why does he though? Had he proved more the any other ex player at management? What exactly has he done to earn a management position at our club?
I know plenty of people that have been around my company for decades. There's no way in hell any of them deserve to be CEO. I'm all for romanticism, but we live in the real world. If Giggs, or any other ex player wants the job, go and prove their management skills elsewhere first.
Mostly overreaction in here. It's a good move from City but doesn't guarantees them success. But if we want to compete, we do need a change. Mourinho for me.
Hopefully the City team will implode now and lose out on top 4
Shit haircut, never wanted him anyway.
Jose pls
Jose pls
Nope JP, that'll be city and whoever Pep's assistant is
Stoke game could be interesting, no signings, Pep to City, and a performance like the one against Southampton.
The mood wouldn't be the best...
The mood wouldn't be the best...
So is this the official melt down thread?
But however which way you look at it, having a great academy is useless if all you'll do is buy all the time.
Let's be realistic.
City are ahead of us at the moment even with Pellegrini. From that perspective not much is going to change unless there's massive changes at United.
City are ahead of us at the moment even with Pellegrini. From that perspective not much is going to change unless there's massive changes at United.
Thank God. Finally I won't log on here and see the continual posts begging for Pep. He's a blue nose now. Screw him. Hope he makes a right royal balls of it. We'll always, always be the bigger club.
Cause the board appointed LvG and thought he would come good. He also had a good first season all things considered. Got some players in the Summer (missed on bringing attacking players which led to his downside but that's another matter) and everyone was excited, got to a good start(resultwise) and then everything went to crap for a short while. But since the last point City IMO have wrapped it up, so really it was due to poor timing..
I feel bad for pellegrini, and actually wouldn't mind him taking over us
Said this a couple times too.
He'll never build a team lik SAF, Klopp at Dortmund, or win the CL with teams like Porto and Inter, like Mourinho.
Nope JP, that'll be city and whoever Pep's assistant is
That's true, I miscalculated that one.I very much doubt City fans are particularly concerned about that right now.
I don't think it's all doom and gloom and I'm looking forward to seeing how Guardiola adapts to the football over here. It'll be interesting to see whether he really is as good as people thinks he is or whether Man City turns out to be a banana skin for his career.
1) Every foreign manager has articulated how different it is over here. Not just with the style, but with the fixture congestion - Klopp has recently alluded to this. Will Guardiola adapt if his style of football doesn't work in the first few weeks? Or will he stubbornly stick to his philosophy ala LvG?
2) Guardiola has always managed the best of the best. Barcelona in Spain, and Bayern Munich in Germany. What happens when he manages a team that isn't head and shoulders above the rest, and when he needs to fight every game for a result?
Interesting times!
I wonder how SAF would have reacted to his appointment if he were still managing. Would he moan, whimper, and stamp his feet rather like most of the posters here? Or would he rise to the challenge? The latter, methinks!
1) Every foreign manager has articulated how different it is over here. Not just with the style, but with the fixture congestion - Klopp has recently alluded to this. Will Guardiola adapt if his style of football doesn't work in the first few weeks? Or will he stubbornly stick to his philosophy ala LvG?
2) Guardiola has always managed the best of the best. Barcelona in Spain, and Bayern Munich in Germany. What happens when he manages a team that isn't head and shoulders above the rest, and when he needs to fight every game for a result?
Interesting times!
I wonder how SAF would have reacted to his appointment if he were still managing. Would he moan, whimper, and stamp his feet rather like most of the posters here? Or would he rise to the challenge? The latter, methinks!
Meh... City are ahead of us now and they'll be ahead of us next season - Unless attitudes at the Club change.
I wish they would take their fingers out their arses, stop living in cloud coo-coo land, come back down to reality and understand that what we had with Fergie will most prob never happen again. This Giggs pipe dream is truly a disaster.
This is very RAWKish.. although I agree with you and everything backs that statement up it isn't enough to just live off that. We certainly aren't acting like a bigger club in recent years nor are we performing like a bigger club in the one place that really matters, the football pitch.
Pardiola already started with funny games haha
What's wrong with the board giving LvG a two year deal at the time and putting in the ground work for Pep?
Someone on here could probably run it better.
On the same basis that, you think you know more about football management than Giggsy.
Pellegrini has been in the loop since the day he took the job and so no. not poor Pellegrini, who is a man well rewarded fro a job reasonably well done and for his absolute integrity.
Well, imo it means we better get someone like Mouhrino, Pochettino or Simeone or we are royaly fecked. Not going to lie, i was chuffed when we first hired Van Gaal, but to say it hasn't worked out would be a massive understatement.
The board/owners need to wake the feck up and smell the coffee. Since Fergie left, we have seen two of the best young managers in the world go to different clubs, to our to fiercest rivals none the less. Im really starting to question what ambitions the owners/board has for this club, because right now it seems they are content with sitting on their asses while the club crumbles beneath them
Take Liverpool for example. They have been in a mire for years, yet they have the balls to fire Rodgers after he neraly won the league with them. What has Van Gaal accomplihed? He barely scraped 4th, and now has us playing a mockery of football whilst having spent money like a drunk sailor. Not saying we should become like RM and fire managers unless they win the CL, but if we want to be relevant in the world elite in the comming years we need to act quikly.
If they hire Giggs we might as well pack up shop and call it quits. Don't get me wrong, Giggs is a United legend and all that, but he has absoloutley NO credentials as a manager, never mind the manager of one of the biggest sporting brands in the world. Besides, all that buisness with his brothers wife says something about his moral character, which is much more relevant factor in leadership than your ability to kick a ball
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The board/owners need to wake the feck up and smell the coffee. Since Fergie left, we have seen two of the best young managers in the world go to different clubs, to our to fiercest rivals none the less. Im really starting to question what ambitions the owners/board has for this club, because right now it seems they are content with sitting on their asses while the club crumbles beneath them
Take Liverpool for example. They have been in a mire for years, yet they have the balls to fire Rodgers after he neraly won the league with them. What has Van Gaal accomplihed? He barely scraped 4th, and now has us playing a mockery of football whilst having spent money like a drunk sailor. Not saying we should become like RM and fire managers unless they win the CL, but if we want to be relevant in the world elite in the comming years we need to act quikly.
If they hire Giggs we might as well pack up shop and call it quits. Don't get me wrong, Giggs is a United legend and all that, but he has absoloutley NO credentials as a manager, never mind the manager of one of the biggest sporting brands in the world. Besides, all that buisness with his brothers wife says something about his moral character, which is much more relevant factor in leadership than your ability to kick a ball
/rant
Exactly
This club is owned by leaches looking to make money, than improve the club. We have a chief executive seems to be drinking on the job, making a living on doing a job so bad we are like a ship without a rudder, while in all letting the best managers in the business go to our rivals, while the manager we have is busy pushing the detonator and imploding the club, and until this club sorts itself out why should I give my money to a club to busy falling further and further behind everyone. The pep signing should be a wake up call for all the fans, and if nothing changes next season, why even bother?
Pretty much. The ones resorting to the "bigger club" argument probably pissed themselves laughing whenever Liverpool resorted that defence. We're a massive club, but it really means feck all from a footballing point of view when we're struggling to quality for the Champions League.
I don't care if its RAWKish. Let City have their day with their shiny new toy, Manchester United needs to think bigger than them. Pep is a three year appointment, I personally couldn't care less if he goes there and is successful for three years. United have to think long-term and get this club moving in the right direction again, thats all I care about.
The 2nd besy manager is waiting on the corner with his knees, we're too proud for him, if we dont get mourinho we deserve being liverpool. Once bitten twice shy and there's just....
This is so stupid...why do we need to get an ex player to manage our club? Hughes has a lot more experience than Giggs also
I never really got the impression that Pep fancied us. I don't think he was interested, really.
Maybe the job is too big for him. At City, everything is pretty much ready and waiting. Yes, he will bring in players which he likes and tweak their playing style.
If that's the case, then he isn't the manager for us. We need someone who has the personality to make this club great again! I don't think that's Pep.
Maybe the job is too big for him. At City, everything is pretty much ready and waiting. Yes, he will bring in players which he likes and tweak their playing style.
If that's the case, then he isn't the manager for us. We need someone who has the personality to make this club great again! I don't think that's Pep.
Please don't give me that. We tried it with LVG and splurging money for him and it has gotten us nowhere.
Well, that was obvious enough.
Good thing to have it confirmed, though - not least so we can put an end to some very tiresome speculation on here.
I think it's quite exciting, actually: Should be an interesting season. Pep has a point to prove for many on here - who aren't convinced he'll walk the league.
He also has many admirers (not to say worshipers) on here. Will be interesting how they behave once he's actually (not just an – to them – unwelcome prospect) City's manager.
As for us, who knows. Buy Messi, I guess.
Good thing to have it confirmed, though - not least so we can put an end to some very tiresome speculation on here.
I think it's quite exciting, actually: Should be an interesting season. Pep has a point to prove for many on here - who aren't convinced he'll walk the league.
He also has many admirers (not to say worshipers) on here. Will be interesting how they behave once he's actually (not just an – to them – unwelcome prospect) City's manager.
As for us, who knows. Buy Messi, I guess.
LeBlanc? Joey?
It means City dominating domestically for the next three years. As things stand, it's time to face another three years of mediocrity.
Well that's another angle at looking at it, but at that time Pep was at Bayern and probably happy to be there for couple/several years. It might have been 2,3 or 4 of 5. Besides it was nothing given as he only managed one side, he could've been a failure at Bayern, his resume was only one club at the time.
I don't think it was viable at the time, as 2-3 years is a long commitment to create with somebody.
Besides even if we did that, again the timing would've been poor, as he indicated he wanted a new challenge and at that time LvG was still doing reasonably good.
The 'bigger club' argument isn't a 'defence', its my way of saying I couldn't care less if Pep goes to City. And I really couldn't. And with all due respect, when Liverpool tried to argue they were a bigger club than us that was a joke. As I said above, the bigger issue facing this club is turning things around for the long term, if Pep isn't part of that I couldn't give a toss.
Stupid? Fergie himself saw Giggsy in the same light. FFS, our current manager LVG also thinks the same. Unless, you think you know more than them, I think you are the one who is being stupid.
Or Blanc.