United's Hitzfald Offer!

Ruskie4Rent

So whats this all about? Is it Sir Alex's job or some director type thing? I think he is fishing for some knd of offer, I can't imagine why man u would want a guy who's been out of football for so long.

MrJoeSoap

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4453760.stm

He's only been out of football a year.

LegacyUser

Wats their ****ing game? Ok, first of all, I won't go too OTT since the immediate source is the Daily ****ing Star. Need I say more? Second of all, if this is true, which is a pretty big IF, how is he better than Sir Alex? He isn't. I will never understand the fools out there who want Alex Ferguson to go. He is a complete winner and the players love him. He goes when he wants to go. I have complete faith in him. IF and WHEN he decides to go, I want a top top top foreign ATTACKING coach to bring something completely different. Someone like Lippi or Capello.

KdjaCL

cheesedude wrote:

Wats their ****ing game? Ok, first of all, I won't go too OTT since the immediate source is the Daily ****ing Star. Need I say more? Second of all, if this is true, which is a pretty big IF, how is he better than Sir Alex? He isn't. I will never understand the fools out there who want Alex Ferguson to go. He is a complete winner and the players love him. He goes when he wants to go. I have complete faith in him. IF and WHEN he decides to go, I want a top top top foreign ATTACKING coach to bring something completely different. Someone like Lippi or Capello.

Otto has won 2 European cups so that makes him better


kdjac

LegacyUser

No...still don't want him. What has he been doing on his arse the past year? Can't come to a club like Utd. Much bigger than him.

fade2black

cheesedude wrote:

I will never understand the fools out there who want Alex Ferguson to go.

:rolleyes:

MrJoeSoap

cheesedude wrote:

What has he been doing on his arse the past year?

Taking a year out maybe.

cheesedude wrote:

Can't come to a club like Utd. Much bigger than him.

:v: Thats the attitude most non-Man Utd fans really dislike about Man Utd fans.

LegacyUser

Yeah well until a decent replacement is brought into the scene instead of some 57 yr old bum who was on his arse for a year, then come tell me otherwise...

LegacyUser

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Taking a year out maybe.



:v: Thats the attitude most non-Man Utd fans really dislike about Man Utd fans.

Well ya know...that is what loyalty is about. The Club Man Utd is one of the biggest there is. Gotta get a man that suits the program.

MrJoeSoap

So a man who has won five German championships and two Champions Leagues with two different clubs isn't good enough for United? As for the "on his arse" statement, he is well known to be a family man and more than likely took a year out to be with his family.

It's not as if there is any shortage of jobs out there for him.

You can't name too many managers who have won the CL with two different clubs, never mind clubs of the size of Dortmund and (arguably) Munich.

LegacyUser

Ah I just love Sir Alex...

fade2black

A little too much to be honest.

Big Ears

cheesedude wrote:

Can't come to a club like Utd. Much bigger than him.

I would be more inclined to phrase things the other way round than the way you put them .

'Someone like Lippi or Capello.'

Why would they go to United when they could get bigger and better jobs ?

The Muppet

Big Ears wrote:

I would be more inclined to phrase things the other way round than the way you put them .

'Someone like Lippi or Capello.'

Why would they go to United when they could get bigger and better jobs ?

Out of interest what would be the bigger and better jobs than United?

Didn't Mr Heinzfeld say he had been approached for the job at Chelsea at one stage. Odd then that the special one got the gig. His comments smack of desparation and oppertunism to me trying to get his name in the frame for a position that is not even vacant.

Big Ears

The Muppet wrote:

Out of interest what would be the bigger and better jobs than United?

Barcelona , Real Madrid , Chelsea , Arsenal , Juventus , AC Milan , Inter Milan , + any International job they see fit .

Granted these jobs aren't available currently but Elite managers wait for top jobs to arise not settle for a slightly lower level .

Draupnir

ooooo thats some good flame baiting there Big Ears!!

Seriously though Cheesedude, you want an ultra attackign coach, but then name capello as a favourite of yours?

how many 1-0's did AC milan have while he was manager I wonder. A lot I would say.

Big Ears

Draupnir wrote:

ooooo thats some good flame baiting there Big Ears!!

I realised it looks like that after I posted it , but that's not the way my comment was intended .

Man United are still a very big club but I just wouldn't class them as Elite anymore , too many 3rd place finnishes and not enough doing enough to even threaten to win the Champions League .

HarryHoudini

Personally I would love Hitzfeld at United and for years I have said he would be my prefered choice to replace Alex Ferguson.
Ferguson's greatest strength is his ability to motivate his teams and I dont believe there is a better manager in the world today at doing this. However one thing I will say about Ferguson is he has never been the greatest tactician, and this has become more and more evident over the last 3 seasons.
If theres one area Hitzfeld could put right at United its this.
One year out of the game is not a lot, especially not for someone of his experience, look at Gordon Strachan at Celtic.

el rabitos

I want a top top top foreign ATTACKING coach to bring something completely different.

the last thing man utd should be looking for is a kevin keegan-esc style of football. the majority of matches man u are winning lately are only because they are out scoring the other team, ie. conceding 2 and scoring 3.

if united were to play juve or milan in the CL they'd be made look like fools. poor rio wouldnt know what to do with a constant flow of well built attacks the way he's been playing.

i'm not flaming here or anything, but united are in rebuild mode for the next few years, it happens to every great team. sorry lads. success time looks to be over for now.

ctrl-alt-delete

cheesedude wrote:

Yeah well until a decent replacement is brought into the scene instead of some 57 yr old bum who was on his arse for a year, then come tell me otherwise...

but they and most man u fans would take o'neill id say (although younger) but come the time will probably have been sitting on his arse for a year or even more

SteM

From the Times....

but reports linking Ottmar Hitzfeld, the former Bayern Munich coach, with his job are wide of the mark. Although Hitzfeld would figure on a shortlist of candidates, his reported claim that he had received an “inquiry” from United relates to when the club were preparing for Ferguson’s retirement in 2002 rather than recent times.'

Not the first time newspapers have dragged old quotes up and reprinted them.

PHB

Its a bs story, that said, he'd be a coach i would not mind seeing at United.
There are coachs I'd like to see more, but he'd be a decent choice

LegacyUser

ctrl-alt-delete wrote:

but they and most man u fans would take o'neill id say (although younger) but come the time will probably have been sitting on his arse for a year or even more

Never wanted O'Neil thanks very much. Some other Scottish League club can have him.