Manchester United Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

adox

RobertKK wrote: »

Manchester United will appoint Jose Mourinho as their new manager, BBC Sport understands. http://bbc.in/1Tmm72a

Now I'm really confused. I posted that a couple of pages back.

ElChe32

Pints pints pints pints. Thanks Louis, welcome Jose

adox

Lord TSC wrote: »

Louis van Gaal hasn't arrived for press conference yet as Jose Mourinho is set to replace him at #MUFC

https://twitter.com/howardnurse/status/734112138210467840

Read that and thought it was a very strange tweet.

brinty

Lads nothing on sky sports yet

I believe it's happening but not getting excited until it's confirmed

Lithium93_

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Wow!!!

I am delighted he is back in the EPL ... will be great next year with him and Pep in Manchester !!!

Chelsea will regret sacking him .... again

The derby games will be super interesting next season

Michael D Not Higgins

Unbelievable week of sport. Everything going well. I'm happy LVG got the trophy, he gets to bow out gracefully.

Lithium93_

brinty wrote: »

Lads nothing on sky sports yet

I believe it's happening but not getting excited until it's confirmed

BBC Sport > Sky Sports

Schwiiing

Unimpressed at the timing of this Mourinho stuff.

Van Gaal has just won us a trophy, yes you read that correctly, but his successor is 'announced' within an hour of him lifting the FA Cup.

As poor as his tenure has been he deserves a bit better.

Johner

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Wow!!!

I am delighted he is back in the EPL ... will be great next year with him and Pep in Manchester !!!

Chelsea will regret sacking him .... again

I'm sure he will be a success at United but I think he'd done all he could at Chelsea. It was the right decision to get rid of him.

Now Jose, give us Mata back. :pac:

sigmundv

I have mixed feelings about Jose, lads, but it won't be boring, that's certain.

Manutd_4life

Louis' celebration after Lingard's screamer!!!!

Does anyone have a gif of it. On the phone so can't right now

adox

Story you would think is coming from within the club. Wonder if the press were briefed before the match and told to hold their powder til after the game.

The match had barely finished and the story spread like wildfire.

Bleating Lamb

Bearing in mind that we are not in Champions league so it will be harder to attract top top players this Summer,here is the set up I would like to see at start of next season.
Manager~ Mourinho( for 3 years)
LVG- Director of F
Starting team

De Gea
Darmian. Smalling. Good Signing. Shaw
Fosu Mensah
Mane/Mahrez Herrera Scneiderlin CBJ
Martial
Rashford

Subs- Rooney,Blind,Jones,Mata,Young,Tony V,
Lingaard,a decent sub keeper etc.
Fosu Mensah might be a stretch at def mid but he has great potential.

TheTownie

Pardew looking for forgiveness :pac:

Oliver Holt ‏@OllieHolt22 9m9 minutes ago
Pardew very dignified in press conference. Congratulates United and asks forgiveness for his dance

Rubber_Soul

Schwiiing wrote: »

Unimpressed at the timing of this Mourinho stuff.

Van Gaal has just won us a trophy, yes you read that correctly, but his successor is 'announced' within an hour of him lifting the FA Cup.

As poor as his tenure has been he deserves a bit better.

He hasn't been announced, but someone is obviously leaking it.

adox

brinty wrote: »

Lads nothing on sky sports yet

I believe it's happening but not getting excited until it's confirmed

Guarentee they will be running it in the next hour or so.

Lord TSC

BBC is a step down from the United site in terms of accepting it's done.

To many places started reporting it at exactly the same time. Its done.

Johner

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Bearing in mind that we are not in Champions league so it will be harder to attract top top players this Summer

I think your last stint out of the Champions League disproved that. United will always be a big draw. Add in Jose as manager and being out of the Champions League doesn't really matter in terms of attracting big players.

Essien

Congratulations on winning the FA cup today and at least one more league title in the next two years.

TheTownie

LVG deflecting

Tom Williams ‏@tomwfootball 34s34 seconds ago
Van Gaal asked if he expects to stay in his job. "I don't discuss it with my friends in the media who already sack me for six months."

RobertKK

LVG was asked about his future, he refused to comment on it.

I would not ask him that just after he has won. We all know.

Rubber_Soul

Zero doubt it's done now. Scummy move to leak it now whoever did it. Van Gaal should have been gone ages ago but to leak it now when he's sat here facing the media with a trophy in hand is low.

Rossi IRL

:):)

https://twitter.com/abeikulytle/status/734105393199230976

jimmytwotimes 2013

https://twitter.com/utdreport/status/734115476159225857

JaMarcusHustle

Lord knows how much I wanted rid of Van Gaal and how happy I am to have Mourinho in, but this is very classless.

newballsplease

I didn't really see much wrong with Pardew doing a dance

Lord TSC

Rubber_Soul wrote: »

Zero doubt it's done now. Scummy move to leak it now whoever did it. Van Gaal should have been gone ages ago but to leak it now when he's sat here facing the media with a trophy in hand is low.

Decision was obviously made to get it out quickly, to avoid any of the "Did he do enough to keep his job" stories. Was never going to be a good time, I guess.

Sky talking about it now, but seem to just be reiterating BBC.

Headshot

newballsplease wrote: »

I didn't really see much wrong with Pardew doing a dance

He has no rhythm

Mr.Crinklewood

Ooh Ahhh Eric Cantons.....

brinty

adox wrote:

Guarentee they will be running it in the next hour or so.

Sky reporting it now too

TheTownie

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utdreport ‏@utdreport 1m1 minute ago
Rumour in Wembley is that Van Gaal will retire and Mourinho will be manager on Monday [@mrdankwalker]

sigmundv

This Mourinho news follows the trend of "Mourinho is coming" news after a United win, but the difference is that now it's two of BBC's solid sports journalists, Dan Roan and Simon Stone, who put their name behind it, so it seems very credible. I reckon it's done and Mourinho will take over next week.

newballsplease

JaMarcusHustle wrote: »

Lord knows how much I wanted rid of Van Gaal and how happy I am to have Mourinho in, but this is very classless.

It's the press...

Lord TSC

https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ/status/734116770374520832

BREAKING: Sky sources: Jose Mourinho is set to become the next manager of Manchester United. #SSNHQ

adox

TheTownie wrote: »

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Plenty of reports saying that Mourhino wants the whole summer at the club to get properly organised for the start of the season.

As happy as I am about it, to not even let Van Gaal have his post game press conference before breaking the story seems a bit classless. You have to believe the story is being fed from Utd directly.

brinty

Christ united can't do right with some...
Six months of people wanting him to go and then do something about it and it's classless

adox

newballsplease wrote: »

It's the press...

Presume he talking about the club rather than the press.

brinty

brinty wrote: »

Christ united can't do right with some...
Six months of people wanting him to go and then do something about it and it's classless

I don't agree with the manner in the way it's done
Watching lvgs press conference. He looks gutted for a man who's won the FA cup

TheTownie

LVG

utdreport ‏@utdreport 21s21 seconds ago
Van Gaal: "They (media) want to undermine my authority at Manchester United."

Rubber_Soul

brinty wrote: »

Christ united can't do right with some...
Six months of people wanting him to go and then do something about it and it's classless

Leaking it less than an hour after Van Gaal's side wins the FA Cup is classless. Especially if he hasn't been told about it.

jimmytwotimes 2013

To be fair it looks like Mendes has done the talking.

adox

brinty wrote: »

Christ united can't do right with some...
Six months of people wanting him to go and then do something about it and it's classless

If you are talking about me(why not say so if you are) I'm delighted that Mourhino is getting the gig.
I'm speculating but you would have to think that it's Utd that briefed the press with the story and if so, yes it is a bit classless if true.

I don't see the harm in saying that?

TheTownie

Andy Green

Andy Green ‏@andersred 3m3 minutes ago
There are classy ways to change managers and there's the Ed Woodward way.

The man's an embarrassment.

Andy Green ‏@andersred 3m3 minutes ago
Sky Sports "breaking news" while LVG is still giving his press conference .

Disgraceful.

Sky News reporting too.

Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 4m4 minutes ago
Sky News understands Manchester United are preparing to appoint Jose Mourinho as their new manager replacing Louis van Gaal

Cookie_Dough

brinty wrote: »

Christ united can't do right with some...
Six months of people wanting him to go and then do something about it and it's classless

I think it's more because of the way it's being reported now. The focus has shifted from what should be a trophy celebration for manager & players to being all about Jose. Let him enjoy the win before questioning him about his job!

Lord TSC

I'll be honest, after his whole "fans have too high expectations", I really don't care if its classless or not. Ain't no negativity stemming from me here tonight.

RobertKK

Jose Mourinho should have been appointed three years ago.

When he was at Chelsea it was reported they wanted Pogba. I am sure Mourinho will want United to bid for him.
I think he will want Griezmann whom Chelsea were said to want last summer. I don't know if it was Jose or Roman who were suppose to want these players.

Next season we have new signing Luke Shaw, well after missing most of the season it will be like a new signing.


I will go with: we will sign Pogba.

Barcelona are set to sign a record shirt deal with Nike which will help finance a new deal for Neymar. So while it was very slim he would sign for United, it is even slimmer than wafer thin now.

A French central defender: Varane or Laporte, Laporte is being linked with Barcelona while Varane is said to be unhappy at lack of playing time.
Varane would be my choice.

I think Mourinho and United as a combination will negate the fact we have no CL next season.

I can see Ibrahimovic signing.

Then a right winger who is prolific, yes we would all like Griezmann for there...or Bale but I am very doubtful.

Hank Scorpio

Same thing sort of happened with Moyes, no class in his sacking either.. Had to go to Carrington in the night to avoid the media

Headshot

Pity utd werent that ruthless at Christmas and we could have gotten CL spot

RobertKK

Remember how Rio was told he was surplus to requirements.

Essien

To be fair, having the clubs class come under scrutiny is as good a way as any to prepare for the imminent arrival of Jose.