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QPR close to signing M'Vila, strange one that, thought he might join a top top team.

Off the back of the Mourinho post, the Anti Mourinho, will be in play next season and coming to manage in england looks like its high on his football bucket list.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/15/pep-guardiola-manage-premier-league

BFS to Real Madrid?

I think it'd be ace if Guardiola or Mourinho went to a club that wasn't in the top 2/3. I mean what's the point...to just go into another comfy chair with ££££££ to spend.
Fuck me, most of us on here could put out Utd or Chelsea's best team every Saturday and get a result
It'd be so much more refreshing if they went to some-one mid-table(no, not Liverpool) and then they could see if they could really manage and acheive something.

BFS to Real Madrid?

One can only hope...

Mourinho to Leicester...

taps Pisti's nose

I think it'd be ace if Guardiola or Mourinho went to a club that wasn't in the top 2/3. I mean what's the point...to just go into another comfy chair with ££££££ to spend.
Fuck me, most of us on here could put out Utd or Chelsea's best team every Saturday and get a result
It'd be so much more refreshing if they went to some-one mid-table(no, not Liverpool) and then they could see if they could really manage and acheive something.

wow i am stranglely drawn towards agreeing with pisti ( and he almost says we're not a mid table team )

i feel dirty

It'd be so much more refreshing if they went to some-one mid-table(no, not Liverpool) and then they could see if they could really manage and acheive something.

Are you touting Mourinho for Everton then?

He'd never shut up about injuries or big club bias.

We're 5th you cunt...Mid Table >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What Pisti said.

I think what's interesting is clubs searching for coaching talent, Laudrup at Swansea being the most prominent. And his coaching up, good, but not great players, to improve on what his predecessors did, after the midway point, they are sitting pretty on 30 points, ten off nominal safety (which is the first thing every manager of a smaller team needs to secure) and have played some stylish attacking football to do it, which has put some of the bigger teams above them to shame.

I'd love if Guardiola's love of english football lead him to somewhere like Palace (great youth system) or Villa (turning out a load of talented if callow players), I know he'll end up with a big spender, or a club with money, my money if I did bet is he goes to Arsenal, less upheaval, they're already got the foundations in place, and the board will give him time..

PS. Which teams in english football produce the most young players, whichever their current placing. Any websites that track this sort of thing

I think it'd be ace if Guardiola or Mourinho went to a club that wasn't in the top 2/3. I mean what's the point...to just go into another comfy chair with ££££££ to spend.
Fuck me, most of us on here could put out Utd or Chelsea's best team every Saturday and get a result
It'd be so much more refreshing if they went to some-one mid-table(no, not Liverpool) and then they could see if they could really manage and acheive something.

it would be very interesting but I can't see it happening.. especially with Mourihno, he'd take the high paid glory job all day long, he knows he doesn't have to work properly again if you know my meaning

Guardiola is more of an enigma.... citeh or psg seems a fairly clear choice, but Arsenal might tickle his fancy

Not mentioned utd as slur alex aint going to let go of his perch anytime soon

If Fergie wins the league and the man he wants to safeguard his legacy becomes available I wouldn't rule it out.

I imagine the board want him to leave soon. His presence will take some shifting and will affect the team for a bit.
I reckon.

What about you Robbie?

I reckon Fergie's on the way out...

If they win the league he'll be off... IMHO...

McLeish to replace Fergie. They are bezzies afterall.

If they win the league he'll be off... IMHO...

Yeah I agree.
He is becoming more and more difficult to understand in his press conferences. He appears to be losing his mind and I think he will be off when they win the league this year

I imagine the board want him to leave soon. His presence will take some shifting and will affect the team for a bit.
I reckon.

What about you Robbie?

Robbie would only talk about his time at United, then his time at Derby, then Strictly, then keep talking about himself for a while longer, and not answer the question or provide any insight.

if fergie leaves no one will be able to stop citeh winning the title every year

not sure Guardiola would want to take over directly from Fergie, you know you never want to be the guy that takes over from a legend, you want to be the guy who takes over from the guy, who took over from the legend.

That being said, Guardiola's a legend himself so maybe the fans would give him a truckload of opportunities to lay his mark on the team.

Still think Arsenal are a better bet for him, and if he does, North London derbies will be hell, if they start on an upward trajectory..

Surprised Mourinho hasn't been touted for the PSG job, he'd win Ligue 1 all day long with that squad, and the money at his disposal, and could make a decent fist of winning the European Cup for a third time, with a different club

Jose to PSG makes sense.
Pep's clearly shopping around in the UK. Of the big clubs, I think it's glaringly obvious that he'd choose Liverpool Arsenal and their youth team set up.

Though, it would be NUTS if he went to Southampton. That would be insania.

if fergie leaves no one will be able to stop citeh winning the title every year

I've said it before but... Utd don't have any serious contenders... Chelsea in managerial turmoil and Libpool and Arsenal playing with no consistency whatsoever, Citeh should've won the league the season before last (and possibly even the season before that)...

The title's there for the taking... The big clubs need to man up, Utd have been, and still are, on the wane...

I wonder about how long Guardiola would want to stay at a club. Obviously he'd get an easier ride here than he was getting in Spain. We don't have that divide in newspapers along club lines and pages spent dissecting each performance and match.
But would he be content with challenging and not winning immediately, building a team, seeing the project through to winning fruition? We all expect him to win immediately, what if he doesn't?
And also would be work as he did at Barca on a year long rolling contract? Would he be afforded that luxury, and would it mean every season like Demba Ba's release clause it would be a story with speculation running free about who he could join or who was chasing him for their high profile management position?

But it's the greatest league in the world Joe.
that's why they didn't.

Can anyone else see that the constant "United 8 points ahead, could be down to 4 etc etc" is a fucking storyline, developed in conjunction with Sky by the FA to add excitement, due to the fixture list?

Or do I need Mike's Clive's tinfoil hat?

He didn't really build a team at Barca. He came up thru the ranks (30 stories high! Godzilla! Godzilla!), took over, recognised what he had, chopped out the party animals and then promoted what was already within the squads.
Though Bojan didn't really work did he?

So dicki was all huff and puff (no change there) and so MrsMyth has stepped into the breach.