Given a choice, I'd rather sack woodward and, particularly the owners. But yeah. He was perfect for getting a post-mourhino smiley faced bounce, but there was nothing in his career so far that suggested he had the nous for top 4 football or better.
Don't you worry your perty head about thatAnyway, forget all the club loyalties, all the stuff about which team united fans dislike most, I just want to see the look on Guardiola's serious but unhinged face if Pogba (with blue hair) does it again. I also want to see a journalist ask him if they are still chasing thequadrupletrebledouble?
Isn't Moyes contract still running ?yeah. how many millions is it going to cost when we sack him?
I don't know who nicked my log-in for that comment, but I think it is fair to say, in light of recent events, that ManUre are a useless load of overpaid, lazy, showboating twats.
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A bit generous ^
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I really wish Ole would shut up and stop yapping on about the Fergie years and the United "way" and just get on with sorting the mess out. He even mentioned he doesn't park his car in a certain spot as he still considers it fergie parking spot
for goodness sake, the fergie era is gone. MOVE on.
Sorry - this version of events doesn’t sound remotely credible to me.
By implication you’re saying that Pogba, Sanchez, Fred, Bailly, Lukaku, Mkhitaryan, Matic etc were all recruited by Woodward against Mourhino’s wishes. If this were true you can be sure Jose would have told the world and his wife this was the case when he was making excuses for our shocking results/performances towards the end of his stewardship.
Rather he said he needed even more money to strengthen the squad after already wasting a good part of £450 million on players he then decided weren’t up to the mark. We could have pretty much have had two Mo Salahs for the cost of one Lukaku. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was the same price as Fred. And so on.
I don’t blame Woodward and the board deciding enough was enough. Why would anyone give even more money to someone whose transfer dealings to date had been pretty disastrous. Particular someone couldn’t be arsed to buy a property in Manchester, preferring to stay in a hotel a la Alan Partridge for the entire duration of his tenure. Hardly a show of commitment to the club and the fans.
Jose’s not stupid. He’s a master manipulator and never says anything without thinking it through. He knew that blaming Woodward for not shelling out more money would deflect criticism away from him as he correctly calculated the fans' default position would be to attack the board, even though the facts suggested otherwise.
Mourhino was looking for a way out, looking for his next move, practically from the moment he arrived. He, not Woodward, must shoulder most of the blame for the current situation.
What happens next will be determined by how much money will be made available in the summer, whether transfer targets are available and, more importantly whether they actually want to come.
As for Ole he can say with some justification this isn’t his team - he’s inherited a bunch of largely unhappy, dysfunctional players. That's mostly down to Jose.
As I’ve said elsewhere on this thread I’d have given the job to Wenger until the end of the season (if he’d wanted it) and then taken it from there.
But we are where we are . . . (battling to get into the Europa League
I like solksjaer and only wish they'd appointed him earlier
Going to be interesting to see how the transfer market goes for Utd, especially if they do not have CL football as a draw.
Not sure how much of a 'clear out' they will/can actually have, despite what the fans are claiming
De Gea rumoured to PSG
Pogba fairly certain to go
Rashford getting tapped up by Barca
Arsenal after Bailly
Lukaku talking about Milan
Herrara, Mata, Valencia likely off for free. Sanchez off on loan if some idiot 'meets his wage demands' and/or Utd subsidise this.
Probably the Utd faithful won't miss much of that list (Rashford aside) but replacing them may be tough.
It is not so much how much they miss that shower. It is more how much of a draw for top players Utd are without CL football
I suppose if Eriksen is just after the money he might head to Utd? Although no doubt there are several clubs across Europe who would match Utd monies for him.
