Sir Bobby Charlton has yet again reiterated his opinion that Jose Mourinho doesn’t have the right character to be manager of Manchester United.
“A United manager wouldn’t do that,” Charlton said, referring to Mourinho gouging Tito Vilanova’s eye, then Barcelona’s assistant coach, in the 2011 Spanish Super Cup. “Mourinho is a really good coach but that’s as far as I would go really. He’s the manager of Real Madrid and we expect to play them in the Champions League by the end of the season.”
When it is put to him that it is difficult to imagine a United manager being allowed to get away with some of Mourinho’s behaviour, Charlton said: “You are right. He pontificates too much for my liking. He’s a good manager, though.”
But Ferguson admires Mourinho. “He doesn’t like him too much, though,” Charlton responded.
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I. Agree Sir!
If this interview is clear, no lost in translation claims later, then it does make it clear who is the
choice to replace Fergie in the future.
Or does it? Mind games?
Mourinho.Pep and Moyes frontrunners.
Klopp possibility.
Solskjaer , in the future.
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Moyes is the only one capable of that steely scottish stare and hairdryer.
Fergie wanted him as his number 2, before Moyes joined everton.
Moyes has worked with a shoestring budget, highs and lows of football, some Euro experience,ok in transfers, different teams different styles.
Stayed at everton for a long time.
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Mourinho, big enough, tough enough to handle the pressure.Will for the first time be theman in charge of the football side of the club. No football directors.
Has mellowed ,matured,less arrogance.
A winner, at every club he has been,actually capable of overtaking Fergie in trophys haul,if he continues.
Only the portugal national team job left and returning to england to challenge him.
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Pep has class,knowledge,luck, experience. Knows how to play swashbuckling football.
Wud be in charge of Uniteds football side,no football director.
Wud love the history of the club.
Never managed outside barca,left after the pressure of expectations,not actual drawback but just a worry.
chelsea cant get him,not after roman showed his stupid hand again. u are not coaching for theclub fans or players but just a bitch for roman to play with.
city have got 2 ex barca to see thier redevelopement,so its a possibily.
So what has his sabbatical taught him for the future?
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So who now ,what now in 2013 summer or 2014 summer?
Well, never say never…
I love Sir Bobby, always will, but I have to say I wouldn’t be displeased if Murinho succeeds Fergie when that day comes. He is a master tactician. Even Alex Ferguson used to be a lot more of potent character than he is now. Granted, he never stuck his finger in anyone’s eye as far as I can remember, but he never shied away from a controversial statement, or from sticking it to the press, or from taking on another manager in the media etc. It was often Fergie’s antics that came under the microscope of some of United’s biggest enemies/rivals and the footballing authorities, but we always rallied around and found his antics to be a good thing for us. We always loved his feisty character, and I think that we’d take well to Murinho’s cocky character too. Everyone has moments of madness, it’s just passion for the game.
Sir Bobby say No,End of Mourinho speculation the Power has spoken.
I think it will come down to who fergie thinks and that will be Mourinho .He is the only one with a personality to take over the great man witch will be at the end of the season.If Mourinho carries on winning trophies he will win more than Fergie he is only 50 years old and won more than 20 trophies, three champions league , the only person to win the trebble in Italy a born winner and master tactision.
I don’t know what you boys think but I reckon United and SAF will be looking for a manager with a proven record at the top level of club football. For me that man is not David Moyes. United are not in the position they once were when SAF took over at United and gradually changed the club from mediocrity to the top. David Moyes doesn’t have the proven track record at Everton. I think he is a manager who performs well at a smaller club with very little finance but I don’t think he will be able to cut it at a massive club like United.
The job must go to either Pep Guardiola or Jose Mourinho. I prefer the former due to his experience and commitment in bringing in players through the youth system.
definitly agreed !!!!!!
Sir Bobby Charlton is playing mind games too. If you read futher in this interview he admits that he is saying these things coz he doesnt want to loud anyone who isnt THE United manager. He mentions that we are likely to meet Real Madrid soon in the CL still under Mourinho’s tutelage so no singing his praises and boosting his ego.
Mourinho has cleaned up his act since then. He is a thinking manager & is right for United and Bobby Charlton should just shut up. Just imagine Mourinho goes to City and win 2 titles on the trot like he did at Chelsea, I don’t like that and all fans will not like that.
Im sure when the time is right he might be more accomodating.
Its also a “grapes are sour” type of preparing for in case we dont land Mourinho.
Thing i find a bit odd in all this is Sir Bobby saying Sir Alex[lol how many clubs have two Sirs,1 Sir?] doesn’t like Maureen,when Real was in town Sir Alex met Maureen for drinks,if he didn’t like him don’t see him doing that.
I don’t mind Maureen i like his passion,intensity and his drive to win,if he didn’t care wouldn’t be going after opposing coaches.Also has the experience,confidence and ego to take over.I don’t know how much weight Sir Bobby carries anymore but he doesn’t like Maureen that’s for sure
@Unitedforeva –> Bobby Charlton should just “shut up”? So he’s not entitled to his opinion then? Bobby Charlton means more to Manchester United than you… or almost ANYONE… ever will.
And you really are a weakling if you think we should make decisions based on what Manchester City might do! City want to be United, not the other way around.
And who are you to tell sir Chalton to shot up
Here is the article if you lot want to see it.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/1208/1224327650141.html
Fully agree with Sir Bobby.
And you lot who are saying he has matured since then, think about what you are saying. This man had already been to Porto, Chelsea, Milan and a couple years at Real. The eye thing was just 14 months ago. And it wasn’t isolated as the man had clearly blow his head gasket over the pressure.
Jose only views teams like some view trophy wives, has no interest in building teams.
Only reason I would let Jose manage the club, is if Ronaldo came with
Well, maybe not even.
Sir Bobby is absolutely right, again!!!!!!!
I expect Mo and no one else…he is the best…
Guardiola can be manager only if he get Messi…
Mara. Hahaha… Think we have the criteria. The princes need to bring presents when courting our great club!
Mourinho, “I bring you Ronaldo”
Pep “Ha, I’ll do better! Behold! Xabi, Iniesta and Messi” (♬We three kings of Barcelona are♬)
I laugh every time I see this photo – the bloke in the background looks like he’s orchestrating the whole thing.
As for Mourinho, he’s not my first choice replacement but I’d prefer him to Guardiola. Its a bit like Ronaldo and Messi, if we could only bring one to OT I’d want the one with a proven track record in more than one league. Hopefully Ferguson sticks around long enough for Ole to be ready, and he can’t be far off that as it is. He’s already got more managerial experience than Pep did when he took over at Barca.
Bobby is bang on again and i can only agree with him. You don’t just “clean up your act”, it’s a personality thing with mourinho, he isn’t changing anytime soon, certainly not for united. A manager has to adhere to the philosophy that the club was built on, not the other way round as jose would have you believe. I just think fergie has a professional mutual respect for him, more so than anything else.
In Mou’s defence, he kept a clean record in the premier league not doing any harsh offenses. Altough, Mou’s never gonna be a long term replacement which we all want. Fergie will be here for a couple of years to come and then I really do hope Solskjaer is the man for the job (Hopefully he’s managed another club in England, making some fantastic results before returning to Old Trafford.)
Bobby Charlton should shut up? Show some fucking respect to the great man you prick.
Never like Maureen since day one at Chelshit. Self-proclaimed “special one”. Disgusting personality.
There is nothing to decode from Sir Charlton interview. The message is plain and simple, Maurinho will not be United manager.
I’d have Mourinio – No problems at all. Best manager out there, proven himself in different leagues and strong enough to handle it.
What a strange comment from Bobby Charlton? Either he knows that Mourinho will not get the job so feels free to say what he thinks of him. Or he suspects the club might well choose Mourinho and he’s trying to rally support against him.
I think we have to get Mourinho as the next manager. If we don’t then he’ll go to City or Chelsea and they’ll be practically unbeatable with his management skill and their money. He’s far and away the best manager in the world today.
Guardiola is a really nice guy but he just inherited a great team and then left after the pressure got to him. Plus we don’t know if his style of play would work in the Premiership. Arsenal’s experience suggests not. Guardiola’s transfer record isn’t great (Ibrahimovich?) and it will take years to build an academy to rival Barca’s. In a way I’d still be pleased to get him because I really like the guy but I’d worry that it wouldn’t work out. It would be a sentimental appointment, the kind of thing Liverpool do and look where its got them.
Moyes does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the guys above. If he had an ounce of ambition he wouldn’t still be at Everton.
I’m glad Sir Bobby went public with his opinions about Jose because it puts this issue to bed once and for all. After that statement you’ll never see Jose managing United. And I’m happy about that. I wouldn’t have been upset if they chose him in the future but he just isn’t a good fit for us. He’s not the type to promote youth and development, and he doesn’t have the universal respect and admiration of his peers in the game like Sir Matt and Sir Alex have, and like Sir Bobby has.
We can finally move on from all of the Mourinho speculation and enjoy having the greatest manager in the world, who could realistically carry on for another 5 years or more. And I wouldn’t bet against Sir Alex doing that.
Bring back Ron in June!
ChriW
Unbeatable eh,Guardiola had no problem battering the shit out of his teams and didn’t leave whenthe pressure got to him far from it.He chucked it when the President was afraid to get rid of Villa,Alves and Fabregas, google it That’s management for you he earned the right to decide who wasn’t performing for him.Not the President and he wouldn’t go to City they have a couple of guys there who came from Barcelona and he doesn’t get on with them.
First AIG and now Neil posting again. Can’t forget the King too. ROM on the upswing
Sir Bobby is entitled to his opinions. One thing people must realise is that the next United manager should be the RIGHT man not the MOST LIKED man. Lets be honest, outside United, while many respect SAF and admire his work, very few people like him. Before Solksjaer takes over long term ( I hope) there’s got to be a stabilising period, hence a manager with big game experience and mentality. Ironically two of United’s best ever players Roy Keane and Cantona were not the most ‘righteous’ of people out there, yet they flourished because of the uniqueness of our club at making the best out of people. If Jose comes, I’m fine with it. He’ll be good for and with us.
I cant wait to se Guardiola in other club and so how he works without Messi, Xavi and Iniesta…
i m little bit concerned about Mo when he will not get any money for players…he will have to win PL with this what he got…
Telling Sir Bobby Charlton to shut up? What a fucking disgrace.
I think Maureen will get the job of replacing Fergie because this is where the owners will call the shots. Outside of the transfer budget, they haven’t interfered with the football side at all, which is about the only good thing I can say about them). But on this issue, I am feel sure they will speak and will get their way, and equally sure they will want Maureen. Rightly or wrongly, they will view him as the “safest bet” to continue our success. Perhaps if Sir Bobby and Sir Alex were both deadset against him, they might listen, but I doubt it.
And make no mistake, Maureen wants the job. He might even stick around for a while when he gets it. The man’s ego is insatiable. As he looks to his own future, what does he see? Yes, he keep on winning stuff. But he’s already won everything, so it’s all just “more of the same”. What he wants is to cement his place in history, and I don’t mean as some footnote in the record books. I mean he wants to create a legend that people will talk about.
And one sure way to do that is to take on The Impossible Job: replace the longest-serving, most renowned manager in elite football, at the biggest club in the world, and make it work. Not for a year or two, but for many years. We all know what SAF has done is extraordinary. Without equal. Even rival managers who hate his guts will still doff their caps at what he has achieved: 25 years of success at the biggest club in the world, in the toughest league in the world?
Anyone will tell you it can’t be done again. And Maureen wants to prove them wrong. He sees it as his desitiny. I feel sure of it.
I know many on here are against him, but if he’s successful, you’ll soon get over it. As STR once quipped, “He may be a bastard, but at least he’ll be our bastard.”
Personally, I’d love to see OGS take-over, but he has no experience at this level, and so it’s a gamble. And I just don’t think the owners will be prepared to take a gamble of that magnitude.
Ask yourself: if a new guy takes over and has a couple of lean years while he gets the place working his way, how long are you prepared to stand behind him? If it all goes pear-shaped, how far would we need to fall, and how long would we need to stay there, before the owners or we ourselves start caling for change? I’m sure we’d all love to see someone OGS succeed, but it isn’t realistic to expect him to succeed immediately. Mind, I am not saying he would fail. But it may well take him a season or three to make it work, and this is a club whose fans consider it a fucking disaster when we don’t win the PL every year; second isn’t good enough (not even when there’s only a point or goal difference in it).
As for Maureen and negative football, I have two things to say about that: the first is that he has shown some different colours at the Virus — he’s not nearly as negative as he used to be. And the second thing is that much of our own football has been negative and dire over the last few seasons anyway.
Sorry for rant!
Stateside Aussie its not a rant, its a fantastic post, cheers pal
“He may be a bastard, but at least he’ll be our bastard.
This sums the discussion.
“He may be a bastard, but at least he’ll be our bastard.
When I talk about Ibrahimovic, people call me crazy etc. But I always say to them that if he’d came here, not saying he will, I WOULD BUY HIM no matter what you feel or think about him, but if he’d came, then the same is with him.
If he’d came here, you would love him and compare him to the greatest United legend, Cantona. Same attitude, same crazy goals, same crazy interviews, same great attitude towards Joga Bonito.
If you’d ask Cantona about Ibra, a bit off topic, but he would say, he reminds me when I played. I bet my life on this.
SO
“He may be a bastard, but at least he’ll be our bastard.
Dandivine … cheers pal.
WeAreUnited … Ibra won’t be coming here. He’s 31 already and we don’t buy players older than … er … 29. It’s against club policy
StatesideAussie
hahaha that’s funny. And I maybe went a bit off topic with Ibra, but just wanted to state that, no matter who comes to United, like it or not, “He may be a bastard, but at least he’ll be our bastard.”
BTW. We don’t need Ibra of course, because we have 3 deadly strikers
but as a Ibrakadabra admirer and loving his football (forget attitude), If I was the manager, I would buy him and give him that English PL medal, so he can fill that missing link
But I gues that’s out of our policy haha
and I’m not the manager yet 
People assume mourinho will just turn up without consequences and the club paying the price, do you really think he’s going to get by on the chicken change budget fergie has been getting on whilst trying to bring younger players through? He’d come in trying to change the face of the club and all it stands for, demanding extravagant fees for players. it won’t be for the best down the line either.
Bobby is a wise man and he knows exactly the type needed at united.
Samuel … I’m just giving my perception of what the owners will do. Ultimately, it will come down to them. Sir Bobby and Sir Alex will have input to the decision, which is only right and proper, but in the end, it’s the owners who must sign off on it. Whatever we think of it.
I reckon you’re right that he would demand a war chest and the authority to spend it. But then again, almost any new manager will want that to a greater or lesser extent. In regards to bringing younger players through, we don’t actually seem to be doing that. Scholes and Giggs are total legends, but I believe their time is done, and if we were serious about bringing younger players through, Giggs and Scholes would have been eased aside already. I have been a strong advocate of rebuilding through youth and I have been patient for the last few years, in the understanding that they needed to gain experience and not just be thrown in the deep end.
I honestly thought this season would be it, and I was mentally prepared to accept we might not challenge for the title if the younger guys finally took over; I figured it might take them a full season to gel. But the transition seems to have stalled. I know there have been injuries, but Anderson and Cleverley have 24 appearances between them this season, only two more than Giggs and Scholes, and they have been available (but unused) in matches that Giggs or Scholes played. It seems very clear that SAF does not believe the younger guys are strong enough to push Giggs and Scholes out; rather, it seems that Giggs and Scholes will continue until they are either unwilling or physically unable, and only then will the younger guys become the new regulars. Our team selections are not exactly a vote of confidence in our younger players!
As i argued on another post, it is time for the younger players to shoulder the burden. They need to have that responsibility put on them. Some will grow into those shoes and flourish, others will fail and perish. Either way, it is time to find out!
Hate Maureen, he is a 2 season wonder – he has one strategy once teams figure that out he is finished in any league – in the end SAF was thrashing him badly and in his final part season he was a mess before he was fired and yeah – how many Chelsea, Inter or Real youth has he bought through? Right now his super star team is in 3rd place and if Ronnie was not there they would have nothing, he carries that team and SAF made him. Maureen has also lost the Real dressing room with players briefing against him.
United – we develop players, we take pride in our youth coming through, we have strong, tough, rugged, humble managers, maureen is always bragging about trophies, SAF never brags about what he has won. He took United from relegation club to best in the world. Barca found Maureen to arrogant to hire, he may be a decent coach , but he is not United quality. Pep is unproved outside of Barca, I would like to see him coach another team ad then maybe, he at least has steel and class.
Yes SAF met him but he never liked him when he was at Chelase, how do you know they were not discussing us buying Ozil or other transfer busines…
Maureen is a nasty piece of work SAF for all his rants, is very supportive of other managers and a fair man. Is about winning with class. City is just about winning with no class, gaudy buggers. Maureen was made for City, he is too soft, vein and nasty for United.
Slim, good to be back!
Did Fergie really mean that Maureen will replace him?
As Charlton put it nicely in the interview –> “He(Fergie) doesn’t like him too much, though,” Charlton responded.
Why we need Maureen? Look what he’s done at Inter and what he’s doing in Madrid. He’s embarrased Inter with constant battle with Italian press. And now, he is battling with Madrid fans and President. Do we want this kind of embarrasment happen in United? Sir Charlton concerned about these consequences of united hiring Maureen. I’d rather to have him at City. It will be one hell of a great circus show with him and players like Tevez and Balotelli. Let him go there.
I’m not sure about Mou as Utd Manager…one thing i’m sure of is i don’t want him going to any of our rivals. Hate him or love him, he probably will end up as the greatest manager of our time
i also think its a bit of a myth that Mourinho spends a lot of money to win trophies, he didn’t have bags of money to spend at Porto and Inter, even at Madrid he has pulled off some very astute transfers.
Maureen at united is my worst nightmare. I’d honestly rather get relegated.
0161-Jon … do yourself a favour: go talk to some Gooners about how it feels to be in the trophy wilderness year after year. Then go talk to some Dippers about they feel seeing their once proud club languishing in Shitsville at the bottom half of the PL. Then come back here and blather on about how you’d rather be relegated than be run by Maureen (or any particular manager).
Relegation would be a financial disaster. It would set this club back years and undo much of the great work that Sir Alex has accomplished. It would cuase the club and every one of its fans years of urtfull, painful humiliation and embarrassment. We would be a laghing stock. I’m old enough the last time we were relegated and I never want to go there again.
Unitedforeva. “Bobby Charlton should shut up” Please go fuck yourself mate and I really mean that. One of the reasons why I left ROM was because of plastic cunts like you. If Sir Bobby thinks Mou is not the right person for the job then who the fuck are to question him? Sir Bobbu has been at the club far longer than you have ever been around. So yeah, fuck yourself mate. Cheers ROM.
Relegation!
One defeat the fans go mad and now people say they will prefer relegation. Fucking jokers. I WILL HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT FOR JOSE , I would prefer jose in my side than in city;s bench.
Utd4Life – yes – let me add @ Unitedforeva – I would fck you up for that comment on Charlton – stupid disrespectful cunt.
I like Jurgen Klopp, his style is v much like United’s, attacking, pressing, industry, tempo. He seems to be a great coach who’s brough through great young players and his style *unlike Pep* is very well matched to United’s.
Just make sure he brings Hummels and Gotze and he’ll be fine… fuck City, if they want to pay £20m a year to Mourinho let them, and let him blow £500m winning one european cup … we’ll still be United and our way is our identity, and we’ve stuck to that and we’re still the top club.
Mourinho just seems too much of a prick and a troublemaker and likely to piss off after a couple of years and leave United in trouble. For those talking about the Glazers’ concerns… that’s a huge concern, what happens when he walks out on a dressing-room at each others’ throats !?