Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?

[Barney_Rubble]

Anyway Giggs might be getting the job as caretaker very soon . Be interesting to watch him fuck it up as well.

I'd love to see Giggsy installed as care-taker manager, just in time to galvanise the team for their game with Citeh and help them get a "battling draw", only for the Rhyl-natives to turn them over when the mancs come to Goodison - that'd be fucking hilarious!

[jamespp]

Even if none of this shit is true, the fact that they on red cafe think it might be true is funny, their players being forced to watch videos of Leon Osman....:D

[Iceman]

They're being napalmed by karma and it's fucking great.

[Mathewbet1]

I love the smell of mancs crying in the morning.......smells like victory.

[JoeyJones65]

[JoeyJones65]

[JoeyJones65]

[Iceman]

Cly me a liver. A whole pool of liver.

[JoeyJones65]

[Iceman]

Pissing myself here mate !!! Phil juuurns face is just classic.

[polymerpunkah]

That is fantastic.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

On one of those inter-club banter pages on Facebook. Getting immense pleasure winding up the Mancs by calling Moyesy Wilf, after Mr. McGuiness.

 

They want him to stay. Nailed on for the title next season, apparently.

 

Deluded fuckers!

[fowler9]

I imagine the next straw to clutch at by the mancs in denial will be the improvement between Brendan's first and second season

 

conveniently forgetting Brendan isn't a clueless hoofball fuckwit, long may it continue

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I imagine the next straw to clutch at by the mancs in denial will be the improvement between Brendan's first and second season

 

conveniently forgetting Brendan isn't a clueless hoofball fuckwit, long may it continue

They're already doing that. Saying that we finished 7th in his first season and are now challenging, so they're in with a chance as Moyes is the better manager......

[dandyman]

They're already doing that. Saying that we finished 7th in his first season and are now challenging, so they're in with a chance as Moyes is the better manager......

Hahahahahahaahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

 

 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

They really are deluded beyond belief.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I've just suggested that David O'Leary would've been a better choice. For the Champs League experience. And better football.

 

Trolltastic.

[No2]

Hopefully they go out in glorious failure on Wednesday night, 1 down early on but rally back to win 3-1. When City bum them I presume their fans will put on their pretend defiance again, like yesterday they won't want their fiercest rivals to be laughing at them slagging their manager. They won't sack him and he won't quit until its clear he's lost the fans, after City surely they have some fixtures even Moyesy can win? A nice little winning run should paper over the cracks and give him 3 more months, that should be plenty of time to write off next season too.

[Jairzinho]

Love them to somehow fluke a point against City that ends up gifting us the title.

[Jose Jones]

Bad news:

 

Key Manchester United boardroom figures have now turned against David Moyes, as the prospect of the manager getting sacked has been properly raised for the first time, club sources have told ESPN.

 

The Glazer family owners are now more open to the idea of a change of manager, although they presently remain behind Moyes, but the next week could prove decisive, sources said. Over that time, United must overturn a 2-0 deficit in the Champions League against Olympiakos, before facing an awkward trip to West Ham United and then a potentially daunting second derby of the season against Manchester City.

 

While qualification for the quarter-finals of the Champions League would be seen as a huge positive and possibly change the entire dynamic of his job, an elimination followed by poor performances in the two games after that could well bring the pressure to breaking point. The Glazers are said to have become very "nervous" about the nature of recent performances, let alone the results, with a nadir coming in the 3-0 home defeat to Liverpool. Some United officials now openly maintain that a managerial change is needed.

Old Trafford sources also state it has been noted that Alex Ferguson is no longer so vocally backing Moyes at boardroom level, although the former manager is not said to have turned against his replacement. It is also believed Moyes retains the backing of Bobby Charlton.

 

Doubt, however, has increased at virtually every level of the club. Despite the poverty of recent performances, sources state that one of the most influential factors now has been financial concerns. A number of recently signed-up sponsors and commercial partners have reportedly let it be known to the club that they are less than enthused with now being linked to failure, especially since they specifically came on board because of the reputation for extreme success.

 

This is said to have most unnerved the hierarchy, and long-term damage to United as a "brand" could be the clinching point in any decision. While the club have long planned for a season out of the Champions League - and that was known to be one initial reason behind the previously unwavering support for Moyes - any extra negative effect on commercial revenue would be viewed with utmost seriousness.

 

Sources also state Louis van Gaal would be interested in a potential summer move to Old Trafford, and that the Dutch coach is a little less intent on the Tottenham Hotspur job than he was a few weeks ago. Spurs had felt that Van Gaal's appointment after the World Cup was virtually certain, but it is now more open-ended.

[Iceman]

Interesting read on Van Gaal's time at Bayern.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/raphael_honigstein/04/14/vangaal.bayern/#comments

 

Some highlights:

 

"Bayern, too, wanted a strong, independent manager to begin with and knew that Van Gaal could be a prickly customer. But the board didn't realize that he would not be amenable at all to (mostly) constructive advice. And they couldn't fathom just how idiosyncratic his behavior would be."

 

"The season after, the formation became a dogma. He never diverted from it. Not when the opposition had worked out a way to deal with, not when specific games warranted it, nor when key players were injured. Instead, players were shuffled around inside the system and often ended up in very unfamiliar positions. A general loss of confidence and stability were the consequences."

 

"Van Bommel, however, was a very important player in the dressing room, someone who had the ear of both the coach and high-maintenance characters like Franck Ribéry. Ushering him out the door -- he had fallen out with Van Gaal -- in January resulted in a lack of leadership on and off the pitch."

 

"Van Gaal's authoritarian style rubbed plenty of people the wrong way to begin with. After Luca Toni's move back to Italy (December '09), the majority of the players came to terms with the manager's harsh ways. Success on the pitch made them put up with him, even when he employed some unorthodox methods -- he once showed them his genitals -- to motivate them(WTF??). Publicly, the players insisted van Gaal was treating them fairly but they felt increasingly exasperated as this car crash of a season progressed. Max Reckers, the video analyst, was a source of constant irritation: he patronized players and spoke to them as if they were school children.

After one particular bad dressing-down, Holger Badstuber was close to tears. Even Arjen Robben distanced himself from his compatriot. "His management style reminds me of that of Felix Magath," said Rummenigge. "It doesn't win you any friends.""

 

"Journalists don't know jack. That was Van Gaal's default position. He might actually be right in some cases, but was it necessary to confront them with their (supposed) incompetence at very opportunity? Critical questions were dismissed as "parrot music," as an irrelevance. Senior TV journalists had trouble keeping it together in the face of a manager who treated every query as a personal insult. The media were certainly not the reason why he was sacked but Van Gaal's lack of even basic civility toward them ensured there was no one left to fight his corner when the chickens came home to roost."

[Major Tom]

They're already doing that. Saying that we finished 7th in his first season and are now challenging, so they're in with a chance as Moyes is the better manager......

I'd be surprised if anyone on the planet - Man Utd fans included - thinks that Moyes is a better manager than Rodgers.

[clangers]

It's been a great season but even I don't expect it to last unfortunately. If they go out of the CL and then lose to City (they could easily lose to West Ham as well) he's going to be toast irrespective of whatever WhiskeyNose thinks. The Glazer's just aren't that mad. He'll probably see through the rest of the season and be dumped during the summer.

[Marko121]

The Glazers might look it, but they aint daft.  They ceased being a Football Club a long time ago ( when they took the words off their crest)

 

Once the Owners are hit in the pocket and the sponsors start raising concerns, they will act regardless of what Fergie or Charlton says.

[Horus]

[Major Tom]

Their loss on Sunday pales in comparison to that news.