[Poll Added] Hypothetical: Next manager after Jose Mourinho

Who would be your current choice for next manager after Jose Mourinho?

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I want the next manager to get us playing attacking football and look to be proactive in games.

We're fecking Manchester United. We should look to dominate/attack every game.
 
klsv said:
How about we sell and buy someone in the January window whose quality is unquestionable and to try to do as good as we can this season and leave the new manager better options than Darmian, Jones, Rojo, Young and Valencia?

I'm also not sure how other managers would cost us more. Poch would cost a huge amount and wouldn't be a guaranteed success either. And if we he would decide to quit Spurs despite his new contract and their NFL project and whatnot, I can't see him wanting to join another EPL club, especially with Real also lurking around.
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As good as we can? The consistent pattern has been false dawns followed by utter tripe and we haven’t shown anything to fill me with any confidence of us finishing in the top 4. This is a write-off season as it stands mate, why wait til the end of it to begin the rebuilding, just seems a waste of time?

What I mean by other managers potentially costing us more is in the scenario that they fail, and taking in to account that manager’s signings, another year out the top 4 etc. Now of course there are no sure things in football management as there are so many variables, but I feel with Poch you already have a coach in the top 4 in this very league with a proven track record in building a team with young players - which we have a few. He’s also worked on a shoestring budget, something he’ll not have to deal with here.

He also meets the criteria stylistically, so yeah it’ll be expensive but if we can start building towards the next 5-6 years the money it’ll cost to bring him in will seem like pennies. I do understand that it’s very unlikely that anything could be possible with him until their summer, I’ll take fecking Carrick and McKenna over Mourinho to hold the fort.
 
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Just get Conte or Zidane. One is proven in the PL and did well in Europe too with Juve, Zidane is a bit of a gamble but 3CLs can't be fluke.
But these two appointments make too much sense, can't see our board making the correct decision, again.
 
kthanksbye said:
Just get Conte or Zidane. One is proven in the PL and did well in Europe too with Juve, Zidane is a bit of a gamble but 3CLs can't be fluke.
But these two appointments make too much sense, can't see our board making the correct decision, again.
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Not Conte. Another defence minded Mourinho clone. How much more can we take of this. We need someone to play attacking football, like we should be playing & our rivals do.
 
simplyared said:
Amazing how opinions change. Started a thread last season on the prospects of Eddie Howe becoming our manager. Thread got binned caf members calling it a brain fart etc. Looks like he'd be welcomed now by quite a large number of posters. Thought locking the thread was unjustified. Looks like I was right.
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Funny you say that, I remember when I first joined the Caf and Moyes was on his last legs. A poster made a thread about wanting the then Southampton manager as replacement. The thread was swiftly closed and now alot want Poch too.
 
iluvurmummy said:
As good as we can? The consistent pattern has been false dawns followed by utter tripe and we haven’t shown anything to fill me with any confidence of us finishing in the top 4. This is a write-off season as it stands mate, why wait til the end of it to begin the rebuilding, just seems a waste of time?

What I mean by other managers potentially costing us more is in the scenario that they fail, and taking in to account that manager’s signings, another year out the top 4 etc. Now of course there are no sure things in football management as there are so many variables, but I feel with Poch you already have a coach in the top 4 in this very league with a proven track record in building teams with young players - which we have a few. He’s also worked on a shoestring budget, something he’ll not have to deal with here.

He also meets the criteria stylistically, so yeah it’ll be expensive but if we can start building towards the next 5-6 years the money it’ll cost to bring him I’m will seem like pennies.
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My bad, thought you were thinking of buying nobody in January and going for Pochettino in the summer. Getting him in January seems even more unrealistic to be honest.
 
Aloysius's Back 3 said:
Likewise you. You are just the opposite of me, your backing of Jose has made you blind to taking a risk on an up and coming manager. You are ultimately a fan that prioritises success first over anything else and that resembles with Jose's heart, head, tactics, mind and wife.

On the other hand - I support United for a reason that is attributable to an ethos that cannot be simply replicated at other clubs and is far deeper than just winning. From the young players, from the homegrown managers being given a chance even if they done win a damn title ( boo hoo :rolleyes:), the attacking tactical football that makes teams come to United and be scared or reactive against us rather than the other way around where our own team are scared at OT.

Anyway - you my friend can simply be described as this; you are at your core a supporter of the likes of Real Madrid, Inter Milan , Chelsea, Porto whilst I am at my core a supporter of Barcelona, AC Milan, Manchester United and Benfica. Hint hint - one type of club has a history of what they do that they revolve around in generations whilst the others pray and beg for success over anything else and will sell their soul to do it. One type of supporter needs Jose and the others are simply banishing of someone who was never in our club identity.

anyway This was lovely!

Howe next :drool: and if he comes and fails then so be it!
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I want Jose out so yeah long post based on absolute drivel well done for wasting your time
 
AlwaysRed66 said:
Not Conte. Another defence minded Mourinho clone. How much more can we take of this. We need someone to play attacking football, like we should be playing & our rivals do.
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Think it's a bit harsh to call Conte a defensive coach, he does play a back 3/5 but his teams don't look clueless in attack. Also, I'm a firm believer that a back 3 is the way to go.
 
worldinmotion66 said:
What an arrogant post. So many people seem to want an experienced, proven winner, but there really aren't many around, and they've tried and failed here.

We have to have a vision and find a manager that has the potential to become a winner when given the resources that we can offer. Could Howe make that step up? Could Nuno Espirito Santo? We will never know without giving these guys a chance. We just need a progressive, attack minded manager and it would completely transform the attitudes of the supporters and the players. Hell, some people want serial losers in Poch or Klopp simply because of the football they play, who's to say the lesser names couldn't match what they are doing right now?
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You poke fun at those who would want a Poch or Klopp because they're serial losers despite playing good football yet you're wanting someone like Howe because of the good football his side plays? Erm...
 
kthanksbye said:
Just get Conte or Zidane. One is proven in the PL and did well in Europe too with Juve, Zidane is a bit of a gamble but 3CLs can't be fluke.
But these two appointments make too much sense, can't see our board making the correct decision, again.
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Neither of those two appointment make much sense.
Conte is very much like Mourinho, and I’m in no way prepared to witness more horrid football under a pragmatic manager after LVG and Jose, and I have no idea why would you want that.
Don’t know if Zidane has the patience or the will to sacrifice his reputation for a long term project, because that is exactly what we need, and that project is going to take a long time and it is not going to be a smooth sailing, it is very much different to what he had to do in Real, as a matter of fact it’s the complete opposite, but if he’s prepared for that then I wouldn’t mind Zidane one bit.
 
charlenefan said:
Howe would be Moyes mrk II

Incredibly naive to think managering little Bournemouth is any kind of qualification to becoming manager of Manchester United

Things are bad right now and we all want change but Mourinho has delivered two trophies and a 2nd place finish with an FA Cup Final appearance, things can get a lot worse so let's not let things get any worse by hiring someone like Howe
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Worse? You think things can get worse?
I fecking don’t.
Mr blobby would be an improvement on what we’ve got now.
 
Spurs will most likely be playing CL football next year whilst we will not.

I don't see Pochettino wanting to come here. He's a smart man, he'll know Woodward is a little clown and that the pressure to win the league will be too much for him with the players he will have and Woodward pulling the strings.

If he leaves Spurs next summer, it'll be for Real Madrid who may well be looking for another manager again if Solari doesn't pull up any trees.
 
Yeah, just forget about Pochettino. He should have been brought in this summer before extending with the Spurs but due to inept ownership that never happened and there is no way he will come to us now for multiple reasons. 1. Why leave spurs when they are going to comfortably finish top 4 to come here and play Europa League.. 2. Buying out his contract will be seen as "too expensive by Woodward and the Glazers, after all these are the rats who valued a 25m sacking fee over any attempt of salvaging the season. 3. If his Spurs journey were to end Madrid would probably be in for him again and he would chose them over us any day as would any other manager. I can already see where this is going, Jose will be sacked come may and they will hire another prick based on former merits instead of hiring someone with a philosophy that suits the identity of this wonderful club and it will be a rinse and repeat process.

There is a quote that says "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" We have now, as I said hired our recent 2 managers based on nothing but merits and as long as that continues then we will only be scrapping for 4th at best. The time has now come to identify a manager with a more attacking mindset someone who makes sure that when the players step out there at Old Trafford they will give the fans what they want which is an actual game of football and not this kind of neanderthal football from centuries ago that LVG and Jose plays just to try to get a result. Sadly the odds of that happening under this ownership is slim to none. How the feck could we trust a daft dosser who gave an extension to Jose last winter? The man is on 15m£ a year for turning us into a mid table side and that extension is the reason he has not been sacked yet as it would be too "costly" to do so. Just think about what I wrote earlier, this is owners and a chief executive that valued a sacking fee over any sorts of attempts to salvage the season. Do you trust these charlatans to ever make us compete again?
 
I was against it at first, but as time goes by I’m coming to grips with the fact that it may take 5 years until we can really have a go at the league, the process should be a long term one and done the proper way for a once top team trying to rebuild itself back up after the retirement of the most important person at the club.

Eddie Howe should be second on the list of candidates after Pochettino.
 
Anyone still saying, "so who is available? No point changing mid-season, top4 is gone regardless" needs to reevaluate their attitude. You may actually enjoy football for once if you took the risk.
 
Southgate is not that great - he has done well with England because he has seen how the likes of Spurs, Chelsea and United have played 352/343 type formations and realised is a good way of structuring Englands national team. Add a bit more on demanding ball playing ability of defenders and reliance on technical players; the england performances have improved.

England have severely lacked that and are benfiting from having a shape and organisation. Thats the type of thing they missed during the golden gen.
 
Adnan said:
Has he done that at club level?
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He has evolved brilliantly. He is 'The Great Galvaniser'. He gets this generation. He sets up for games intelligently, will drop obious has beens. Not worth a shout?
 
It needs to be Pochettino, that's the only real answer here. Pochettino or Tuchel. Pochettino will get the club and play attacking football, look at what Tottenham did with Chelsea today, Son, Alli, Eriksen etc, using pace and trickery, he could be getting all this out of Martial, Rashford, Pogba, Sanchez etc. Like come on, people need to wake up and realise how aghast this all is now...
 
Needham said:
He has evolved brilliantly. He is 'The Great Galvaniser'. He gets this generation. He sets up for games intelligently, will drop obious has beens. Not worth a shout?
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I think what we should learn from the hiring of Gareth Southgate is that, when you give the job to a progressive attack minded manager it brings dividends. The FA for too long have given the top job to negative managers and when they finally gave it to Southgate he almost made it the world cup final. And has followed that up by topping the nations league group consisting of WC finalists Croatia and Spain.

I'd prefer Eddie Howe, Poch or Jardim over him currently though.
 
Needham said:
You wouldn't take the starting England line up against Croatia over our current lot?
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I mean our current lot atm look much worse because of Mourinho.

But I maintain we have better players than England do overall.
 
Eddy_JukeZ said:
I mean our current lot atm look much worse because of Mourinho.
But I maintain we have better players than England do overall.
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I seriously wouldnt. Ok, the England manager has a fantasy wish list of all top English players available to him. But even if they were all English, Darmian, Jones, Smalling, Valencia, etc the list goes on all get nowhere near the current England squad/team
 
Whoever it is, I'm not going to respect the next manager if they don't insist on working with a DOF, because any manager worth his salt can see that Ed Woodward is a banker who shouldn't be involved in anything happening on the pitch.

A new progressive ownership group, that isn't 10 years behind the curve, is the root and branch approach that's ideally required but the next best option is to get a DOF who has autonomy.
 
Eddy_JukeZ said:
I mean our current lot atm look much worse because of Mourinho.

But I maintain we have better players than England do overall.
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We have better midfield and GK but they do have better attack and defense.

Southgate is a good manager though. I like him.
 
Not saying Conte is the man but those who say he is like Mourinho or purely defensive are just wrong. There’s only been one season where he did look defensive and that was in the poor second season at Chelsea. At Juve they were high pressing and often played in a 4-2-4. The Italy squad he managed was weak and he did drop deep there, but that was a single tournament. At Chelsea he started with a 4-2-4/4-4-2 and then switched to an (attacking) 3-4-3 to win the title, the players (including Hazard) were often quoted on how he coached attacking moves more than Mourinho did.

He’s a very good coach, too combustible for United at the moment though IMO.
 
L1nk said:
It needs to be Pochettino, that's the only real answer here. Pochettino or Tuchel. Pochettino will get the club and play attacking football, look at what Tottenham did with Chelsea today, Son, Alli, Eriksen etc, using pace and trickery, he could be getting all this out of Martial, Rashford, Pogba, Sanchez etc. Like come on, people need to wake up and realise how aghast this all is now...
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Pochettino is what most want and it would imo be the best choice out of any available and I could care less if he has won nothing. I do however believe he will 100% not end up here and when it comes to Tuchel I have no idea how or why people overrate him so much.
 
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