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Premier League 2019-2020 we’re off

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Billysboots said:
I’m a lifelong Man United fan and member, and I recall driving home from the 2016 FA Cup final, when rumours of Van Gaal’s sacking started circulating. My lad, 13 at the time, was delighted, as was I, and said how excited he was at the prospect of Mourinho being the next United manager.

My response was to tell him if he thought the football was bad under Van Gaal (it was absolute turgid dross), then it would be even worse under Mourinho. How true that turned out to be.

For all his achievements, he still leaves turmoil and fractured dressing rooms in his wake, and has been well and truly left behind tactically. Worst manager United has had in my lifetime.
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So surely the answer to this and Spurs is that your owners really don’t care what you the supporter thinks.

You knew what you were getting when he was appointed as did Jensen when Spurs appointed him.

So the question has to be asked why was he appointed and the answer has to be, it’s because he gets success, all the faults you mentioned didn’t just appear overnight and the owners are content to take the risk, he did bring trophies to Utd in spite of what you had to endure and Levy is probably hoping for the same.
 
pauldj42 said:
So surely the answer to this and Spurs is that your owners really don’t care what you the supporter thinks.

You knew what you were getting when he was appointed as did Jensen when Spurs appointed him.

So the question has to be asked why was he appointed and the answer has to be, it’s because he gets success, all the faults you mentioned didn’t just appear overnight and the owners are content to take the risk, he did bring trophies to Utd in spite of what you had to endure and Levy is probably hoping for the same.
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He was appointed at United because Ed Woodward appears to have little clue about football matters. Every United fan who goes regularly to games will tell you the transfer policy since Ferguson left has been utterly chaotic, and that was replicated in Mourinho’s appointment.

There are so many examples, but the stand out for me was the purchase of Di Maria. A huge signing, but utterly out of keeping with the Van Gaal style of management.

Mourinho at United was a shocking fit from day one, and whilst most were happy to give him time, they were still perplexed by a managerial appointment which was totally out of kilter with the sort of football United fans want. I speak for many when I say I would rather see us play expansive, entertaining football and lose 1-0, than see us take a 1-0 lead and then shut up shop for 85 minutes.

Mourinho is tactically out of touch and a simply dreadful man manager, happy to criticise his players in public. It’s all about him. It always has been.

I’ll be surprised if he is still at Spurs by Christmas.
 
Billysboots said:
He was appointed at United because Ed Woodward appears to have little clue about football matters. Every United fan who goes regularly to games will tell you the transfer policy since Ferguson left has been utterly chaotic, and that was replicated in Mourinho’s appointment.

There are so many examples, but the stand out for me was the purchase of Di Maria. A huge signing, but utterly out of keeping with the Van Gaal style of management.

Mourinho at United was a shocking fit from day one, and whilst most were happy to give him time, they were still perplexed by a managerial appointment which was totally out of kilter with the sort of football United fans want. I speak for many when I say I would rather see us play expansive, entertaining football and lose 1-0, than see us take a 1-0 lead and then shut up shop for 85 minutes.

Mourinho is tactically out of touch and a simply dreadful man manager, happy to criticise his players in public. It’s all about him. It always has been.

I’ll be surprised if he is still at Spurs by Christmas.
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I’m not disagreeing with any of that, but he still brought trophies and improved the income in the years he was at Utd.
I believe it’s that that owners look to to bring him in for.
 
Cherry13 said:
I’m the biggest sceptic of them all when it comes to Mike Ashley, but there seems to be a bit more about this one than previously. Widely reported that it’s all wrapped up.
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Good luck, having seen what happened to my club at 1st hand by Hicks and Gillette in 2006 I'd be very sceptical of any new owner.
 
Imurg said:
Worth a read on why some experts think it could be a while before sport returns.
Its USA based but the principles are the same.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1250691203722629121
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Well 9 PL clubs are apparently ’demanding’ that the PL is completed fully by June 20th!

We’re still in a lockdown with constraints, they couldn’t even play behind closed doors in the current situation.
 
Fish said:
Well 9 PL clubs are apparently ’demanding’ that the PL is completed fully by June 20th!

We’re still in a lockdown with constraints, they couldn’t even play behind closed doors in the current situation.
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Plus the costs and logistics of isolating teams would be immense.
 
An issue that doesn't often get brought up is how are they going to stop fans gathering to watch games. If and when Liverpool do win the title I don't see how they'll guarantee there won't be large impromptu gatherings and it's been shown that these are the rocket fuel to kick the virus off again
 
Lord Tyrion said:
One post my son sent me, from an nufc site:

Man City fans, would you prefer it to be called,

Oil Classico or
The Abu Derby ?

There was then an expletive about City being poor in comparison but i decided to drop that ?
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It’s obviously all in jest, but my favourite “rumour” is Messi as player manager... I just love the fact someone had the creativity to create that.
Also, Muhamed Bin Salman is 150-1 with the bookies to appoint himself as manager. ?
 
Fish said:
Well 9 PL clubs are apparently ’demanding’ that the PL is completed fully by June 20th!

We’re still in a lockdown with constraints, they couldn’t even play behind closed doors in the current situation.
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it’s doable providing lockdown gets lifted early may but doubtful.
 
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