Man Utd vs Soton - 23/1/16

It's not appalling. It's just ridiculous. I hate clubs who are changing managers every year, and I hate the fact we're doing it, but the board have failed miserably in preparing for SAF's transition. Moyes was a failure, LVG gave us some hope in the second part of last season, but this year has been a massive collapse largely due to his stubborness.

Didn't Einstein say something along the lines of: "insanity is repeating a process every time and hoping the results will be different"? Now Louis, you should trust Einstein about that, surely?

We have nothing to lose in giving Giggs the job, at least until the end of the season if we want to wait for Pep for instance (or someone else).

But in all fairness, I am starting to really like the idea of appointing Mourinho. It's not any shorter a fix than Guardiola, he is a proven winner, he knows the league inside out and he knows how to get the best out of his players. Everyone says he creates issues in the dressing room, etc. I disagree: he only has problems with divas, big-egoed stars who don't want to work their socks off and die for him and the team. But I believe that many players we have are perfect for Mourinho's style and would get on well with him. It's just that he demands a greater commitment than other managers, and that many players nowadays don't like to make sacrifices for the team because they're selfish. But we don't have many of them.

Mourinho's has also built fantastic relationships with many players, his "soldiers" so to speak. And that tells a lot about him too. He is not necessarily the image he gives to the media.

But do you think we're that far off from what I mentioned?

I wouldn't go as far as to say that our quality players will leave because every man and his dog knows that VGs time with us is hanging by a thread. I just wish he'd do the decent thing and resign because it's obvious he isn't good enough to coach a top  club in the PL. His arrogance has been his (and ours) downfall and the sooner he goes the sooner we can get back to at least playing like a team that likes to play attractive, entertaining football because under VG there's about as much chance of that as Aston Villa winning the league this year.

yeah we're shit

phone Pep now and at least get that secure, looks like we won't be having champions league football next season though

we need to sack Van Gaal, think that much is pretty obvious

Louis van Gaal believes the injury to Matteo Darmian triggered Manchester United’s downfall in their 1-0 defeat at home to Southampton.
United’s sixth league loss of the season has left them five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham, while the fans made their dissatisfaction known at the full-time whistle as the team were booed off the pitch.
Darmian was forced off in the 60th minute after clashing heads with Shane Long and Van Gaal admits the the Italian’s substitution, along with the absence of Marouane Fellaini who was brought off at half-time, contributed to Southampton securing the victory as Charlie Austin headed home James Ward-Prowse’s corner three minutes from time.
“You can analyse that as a manager and players have to do because it is difficult to create chances when you are so tactically busy with pressing each other and pressure on the ball,” said Van Gaal.
“Neither us nor they kept the ball so much. I put Mata in because I wanted to change that and to keep the ball much easier. In the first 15 minutes it was much better and the fans were cheering the team.
“But then the injury of Darmian happened and that changed the play I think because it was not a nice thing to view for my players. Every change I have made today I knew in advance that in set plays we would have a problem. When replacing Fellaini and Darmian you lose two headers, and we don't have a tall team."

Of course not, not now for sure; I was thinking more like in the long-term, if we don't fix that managerial role once and for all. I think we must at least stabilize for 3 years instead of getting managers in who fail to get the best out of the team.

My point was: what happens if we go on for another three years of poor football? Hence my reflexion: we have already "wasted" three years (LVG did some good things in some areas though), so are we that far off from turning into a reknowned "boring & uncompetitive United"? I think we must steady the ship now, or face degrading our reputation as a club among players. We don't want to do a Liverpool, do we?