I think Leicester’s motm has to be the linesman, although VAR would also have spotted the offsides. Chelsea look insanely good and Leicester look 2 yards off the pace. Hope they play like this against us, in the near future. Edit. I think this shows just how good our two performances were, against Chelsea.
Inevitable. Too late for Conte now though. Zidane? I can't think of many other high profile managers out of work.
I saw a joke tweet, recently, that Zidane was practicing his English, just so he could turn United down.
I personally think Zidane would be a disaster for them. The most sensible move would be to bring Poch on board (it's just his sort of project) if they can at the end of the season, and put this one down to 'experience'. In fact, the most sensible move would have been to have got Poch instead of Solskjaer at the outset, but then the only people who didn't realise that was the Glazers.
It would be hilarious if Poch gives up his first chance of actually winning something notable (Ligue 1) only to go to Man Utd mid-season
He's not happy at PSG. He doesn't get any say over transfers - he's just a first team coach at PSG. At Man United he'd get more control.
I said it before when Poch was linked, I don’t think it would work at Utd. When he has been successful is him bringing in players who he can mould into his style of play and make them great, players who buy into running **** loads and working extra hard because they know it will pay off for the team and also themselves. Players who have already made it at the top level without having to do that I think he struggles with. He got spurs to be a very good side signing relative unknowns and making them great (players like Son, Alli, Tripper etc). These weren’t big names when he got them but by adopting his style and working ****ing hard they now are household names. Managing a team of already established players would be a struggle for him (as seen at PSG last season and to an extent Spurs in his final season or so there) Whether a team like Man U would be happy signing unknowns and letting him mould them into a team with all the commercial stuff about having the big names and the pressure of managing a team of that stature is the big question for me
But how many superstars are there realistically in that squad. There's Ronaldo and Pogba, realistically. Those are the only two I think he'd find difficult to get to buy into his methods. The rest of them I absolutely think he can improve. Your Wan Bissaka/Shaw/McTominay crowd etc would benefit massively.
Varane as well. Maguire? It’s more about letting him overhaul the squad in his image. And whilst he hugely improved us and Spurs, he still didn’t win anything so that question mark is going to be there. Man United is a completely different kettle of fish in terms of expectation. Be interesting to see how he gets on if he does go there
The 'didn't win anything' thing is such a false flag though. What would he be expected to win at Spurs and Southampton? He took Spurs to the Champions League final. That's a HUGE achievement. I think he'd improve Maguire. He'd probably ship out any of the 'superstars' that didn't want to put in a shift. He'd be an excellent choice (I think), much like it was blindingly obvious they should have got him when they signed up Solskjaer. It was an eye-wateringly stupid move.
Agreed. Pogba's off in January or the summer anyway. And I don't think Poch would have a problem with Ronaldo.