mufc Next manchester united manager

[O Fenomeno]

once he gets past the cl 1/4s maybe

lol if united let emery go swansea

Van Gaal is struggling to get out of the groups

[Kompressor]

There's a few differences that should have made LVG's job a little easier though.

[Kompressor]

Why not Blanc it makes sense he was a former player that won a PL title, has a good relationship with SAF, plays attacking ball 

 

 

Why is this a factor?

 

Did Arsenal go through George Graham's friends list before appointing Wenger?

[O Fenomeno]

Ancelotti

[Kompressor]

 

 

Why not Blanc it makes sense he was a former player that won a PL title, has a good relationship with SAF, plays attacking ball 

 

 

Why is this a factor?

 

Did Arsenal go through George Graham's friends list before appointing Wenger?

 

 

Well he is an icon and very influential at the club as is Charlton 

 

 

 

oh really? Please tell me more.

 

maybe we can re-visit the David Moyes appointment then. 

How many more shots at appointing the new man do you propose are handed to the current halfwits in charge?

 

 

United's problems are simple.

 

Years of under investment have come to roost and an attempt to bulk purchase now aren't making up for it, coupled with

Woodwards quest for this galectico phase (which probably has more to do with him having a small manhood and a history of being a bully's victim than Manchester United)

What influence did these two show in addressing these issues 

 

Then we have these influential club icons who sadly happen to be the only football people in the boardroom.

who have overseen a steady demise from even prior to Fergie leaving. Appoint Moyes cause he was free (a move everyone saw coming years beforehand), appoint LVG cause he was free. to hell with who's best for the job.

Again what influence did these two show in the selection process? you think Darcy, Joel and Avram Glazer chose David Moyes?

 

Lets not even talk about the moves City are making with their youth programs, imagine United coming out and moaning out City having more stroke and hoovering up all the talent in the Greater Manchester area... This is Manchester fucking city for fuck sake. Think i'm right in saying we don't currently have a director of the youth academy.

 

Maybe Moyes was onto something when he said we should aspire to rise to their level.

Now we have LVG saying we shouldn't expect the United of 10 years ago......

[The King]

Agents claim that if the club finish fourth Louis van Gaal will remain as manager at Old Trafford. Oliver Kay says that will be a mistake

“I want my teams to be remembered,” Louis van Gaal wrote in his two-volume epic Biographie & Vision. “I want people to say, ‘Those teams played well, they were wonderful teams, because of their style of football.’ ”

Van Gaal’s Manchester United, it is safe to say, will not live long in the memory — unless of course it is for the wrong reasons. People will recall mediocre results and the impoverished, joyless nature of the performances, but above all they will remember how utterly painstaking it has been, whether that means the laborious way his team circulate the ball, as if every pass is the product of a complex calculation, or the way that his tenure has come undone so slowly, stitch by stitch, almost from the very start.

It has felt like a form of slow torture, death by a thousand sideways passes, each one treated as if it is the result of a complex mathematical calculation. It has been the antithesis of the “incredible, attacking football” that Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, confidently declared the former Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach would bring with him in the summer of 2014. And yet the only thing slower than watching Van Gaal’s United in action has been watching the board’s inaction as they have stood by the Dutchman while Liverpool have hired the ebullient, galvanising figure of Jürgen Klopp and Manchester City have secured the services of the brilliant Pep Guardiola for next season. Chelsea, likewise, are close to completing a deal to appoint Antonio Conte, the Italy coach.

Inaction is not an option for United. They could well beat West Ham United in the FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford tomorrow, perhaps even going on to win the trophy at Wembley in May, but surely neither that nor an improbable turnaround against Liverpool in the Europa League could blind United’s board from the need for change. More than one agent has suggested, having spoken to United about potential signings, that the club’s plan is to stick with Van Gaal in the unlikely event that they secure a top-four finish in the Barclays Premier League. That would be astonishing. Surely, after two seasons there is enough evidence to make a sensible, balanced appraisal without it coming down to “fourth place good, fifth place bad”.

José Mourinho lurks in the background, desperate to succeed the man who was his mentor at Barcelona in the late 1990s. The media briefings from his camp reflected a confidence in January, when the board’s angst over Van Gaal was at its height, but in recent weeks there has been a change in tone. Unease has crept in, as if Mourinho and Jorge Mendes, his agent, are concerned that they might be being strung along while United contemplate other candidates, such as Ryan Giggs, the assistant manager, and Mauricio Pochettino, of Tottenham Hotspur, or even the possibility of sticking with Van Gaal.

Some of us have long expressed scepticism about Mourinho’s suitability for United, a club whose proud heritage is based around youth, verve and cavalier football. His second spell at Chelsea arguably underlined those concerns rather than dispelled them. Then again, do those values still exist in the 11th year of the Glazer family’s parasitic ownership, now that Sir Alex Ferguson has left the building — save for his largely ceremonial role on the marginalised football club board — and the emphasis and expertise is now so strongly linked towards commercial expansion and asset growth rather than improving fortunes on the pitch.

Mourinho might be few people’s idea of the perfect United manager, particularly since so many of the complaints of the past two or three years have centred on a functional playing style under David Moyes and now Van Gaal, but the club have not left themselves with many alternatives. Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, or, more realistically, Thomas Tuchel, the Borrusia Dortmund coach, maybe? Giggs has long been touted as a home-grown contender to do for United what Guardiola did at Barcelona, but that is likely to prove wishful thinking. From a pragmatic viewpoint, Mourinho might be the answer, albeit by default.

Sticking with Van Gaal would of course be an option, but surely nobody inside Old Trafford is still labouring under the misapprehension, as Woodward certainly was a few months ago, that the direction of travel is encouraging. Even in the two periods of Van Gaal’s tenure when results were good (19 wins in 28 games around the middle of last season, 13 wins in the first 21 games of this term), performances were so disjointed as to attract doubts about whether they were merely papering over the cracks. All of those doubts, which Van Gaal sneered at, whether from fans, journalists or former players, have been proved correct.

Since a scratchy 2-1 win away to Watford briefly took them top of the table on November 21, United have won nine out of 24 matches in all competitions. They have tumbled out of the Champions League, from a straight-forward-looking group, and look poorly placed to return to the tournament next season. No wonder United are among those daring to board the bandwagon in favour of special Champions League wild-card places for those big “brands” who fail to qualify via the conventional route. The sense of greed and entitlement among those clubs knows no bounds.

United still have box-office appeal, which is why tomorrow’s meeting with West Ham is their 51st consecutive live-televised tie in the FA Cup. They always draw the biggest TV audiences, but increasingly, as on Thursday night, the casual viewer will be left wondering what on earth has happened to Manchester United. No, it was not quite thrill-a-minute in the Ferguson era, but there was always the expectation of excellence in some facet of the game, whether it was midfield defiance, swashbuckling wing play or even, in later years, tactical discipline.

It is the sense of adventure and cavalier spirit that has gone missing under Moyes and has, if anything, staggeringly, appeared even more distant under Van Gaal. The manager admitted on Thursday night that it was not good enough to go to Anfield and muster a solitary shot on target. But it was far from an anomaly. A statistical trawl yesterday revealed that United have managed one or zero shots on target in no fewer than eight of their past 30 Barclays Premier League matches and in six of the past 21. For a club of United’s resources, that is as extraordinary as it is embarrassing. To put that in context, in Ferguson’s final ten seasons in charge, spanning 380 Premier League games, it happened only 15 times, which was no doubt 15 too many for the Scot’s liking.

There has been the odd spike, such as the 3-2 victory over Arsenal a fortnight ago, but Marcus Rashford, their youthful inspiration that day, already seemed to have had the verve and creativity stifled out of him by Thursday night. It is a familiar pattern. Memphis Depay and Anthony Martial showed more improvisation and flair in their first weeks at United than in the months that have followed.

Under Van Gaal, at United, it is perennially winter. Should they lose to West Ham, the cold grip will tighten further. Even if they prevail, though, it is hard to see how United can avoid the clamour for change. Under Van Gaal, it is simply not working

[The King]

meanwhile, two Bunker tips this morning suggests Giggs & co may be too late.

one, from adidas senior honcho, says they have been told to start prepping José/Utd promo gear.

the other, from interlocutors with a top championship boss, report José happily telling said boss on a visit to his house that he's United-bound come May.

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