Mourinho sacked by Man U

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: Man Utd appear to confirm Norwegian as interim manager in website post

The Manchester United website page which appeared to confirm Solskjaer's appointment
Manchester United appear to have confirmed Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as interim manager at Old Trafford.
There has been no official announcement that the Norwegian is taking over from Jose Mourinho, who was sacked earlier on Tuesday.
But a page on the club's website referred to their ex-striker as "our interim manager". It was later deleted.
Solskjaer, 45, scored 126 goals for United in 11 seasons with the club under Sir Alex Ferguson.
He is in charge at Norwegian side Molde but their 2018 season has finished for the winter and does not re-start until March.
A video on United's official website, featuring Solskjaer scoring the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999, was captioned: "Solskjaer becomes our interim manager, 20 seasons after clinching the Treble with THAT goal at Camp Nou..."
Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg even welcomed Solskjaer's appointment on social media, writing: "Great day for Norwegian football. Good luck keeping control of the Red Devils." She later deleted the tweet.

Solskjaer's first game in charge could be against Cardiff City on Saturday - he was relegated from the Premier League with the Bluebirds during an eight-month spell as manager in 2014.
United will look to appoint a permanent boss at the end of the season.
Former Norway striker Solskjaer has been in charge at Molde since 2015 in what is his second spell as manager. He signed a new contract at the club earlier this month.
As a player, Solskjaer won six Premier League titles and two FA Cups with United.
They are sixth in the Premier League, but are closer to the relegation zone than to leaders Liverpool, who beat them 3-1 on Sunday.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46612442

 

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Manchester United to fine Paul Pogba after star posted 'disrespectful' image on social media minutes after Jose Mourinho's sacking as manager

• Paul Pogba is to be fined by Manchester United after his actions on social media
• Pogba posted a 'disrespectful' post on Instagram after Jose Mourinho's sacking
• A picture of him smirking appeared on his account with a message: 'caption this'

By CHRIS WHEELER FOR THE DAILY MAIL
UPDATED: 23:56 GMT, 18 December 2018

Paul Pogba is set to be fined by Manchester United for posting a ‘disrespectful’ picture on social media in the wake of Jose Mourinho’s sacking.
The photo of a smirking Pogba appeared on the player’s Instagram account on Tuesday with the message ‘caption this’.
The post was deleted 10 minutes later but not before it was liked by more than 64,000 people and drew a response from Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville who wrote: ‘You can do one as well!’

 

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Jose Mourinho sacked by Man Utd as club eyes Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino as long-term successor

.A fresh-faced Jose Mourinho leaving the Lowry hotel today . CREDIT: REUTERS

18 DECEMBER 2018 • 9:34PM

Manchester United want Mauricio Pochettino as the long-term successor to Jose Mourinho, who was sacked on Tuesday morning, with the club’s former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer poised to make a shock return as caretaker-manager until the end of the season.
A day of drama at United began with Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, summoning Mourinho to his office at Carrington and sacking the Portuguese coach, two days after the team’s dismal 3-1 defeat by Liverpool.
Solskjaer is expected to be announced as the stand-in manager within the next couple of days and his first match in charge will be away to Cardiff City, who were relegated under him in 2014 – his only previous English coaching job.
On Tuesday night, United’s website inadvertently revealed news of Solskjaer’s appointment on a page that mentioned him as their “interim manager” before being swiftly removed. But not before the Norway Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, tweeted her congratulations on “a great day for Norwegian football” before also deleting her post.
It is expected that Solskjaer will be assisted by Sir Alex Ferguson’s former long-term assistant Mike Phelan, who was sacked at David Moyes’s behest in the summer of 2013. The potential return of Solskjaer, 45, and Phelan, 56, is a signal of the likely influence being exerted on the process by Ferguson, who has recovered from a brain haemorrhage in May and is attending matches again.
Meanwhile, Pochettino refused to rule out a possible departure to Old Trafford in the summer, when he was asked the question at his press conference ahead of Tottenham’s Carabao Cup quarter-final against Arsenal. The Argentine signed a new deal in the summer that keeps him at Spurs until 2023 and it is expected that it would cost United £34 million to compensate for the breaking of that contract.



Asked about the possibility of going to United, Pochettino offered no guarantees to his current club. He said: “Like always in football, no one can guarantee anything. What is going to happen in the summer? What is going to happen tomorrow? Nobody knows. The most important is to enjoy the journey.”
The decision to sack Mourinho, who has presided over the worst start to a Premier League season in United’s history, is understood to have met with private jubilation from the players, many of whom felt they had no working relationship with their manager.
Woodward later addressed the squad in the canteen of the training ground, making clear he expected more from them all in the future if United were to make up ground on the top four and progress in the Champions League knockout stages.
The club felt that they risked a complete breakdown of morale if they had persisted with Mourinho, who had consistently emphasised his own players’ shortcomings in the aftermath of any defeat.
The unflattering comparisons with the Liverpool team in the wake of defeat at Anfield on Sunday were particularly disturbing for the club. Mourinho lamented the physical and technical shortcomings of his players and suggested he could do little about it.

“You cannot improve or make them have [those qualities]. I will give you an example. Robertson, Mane, Salah, Wijnaldum, Keita, Fabinho. They are physical players and, on top of that, they are good players technically.”
United are adamant that all the signings made during his period in charge were endorsed by Mourinho, including the record £89 million signing of Paul Pogba, who finds himself currently out of the team and who circulated a social media post on Tuesday that appeared to delight in the manager’s sacking.
The post, which showed the Frenchman smiling with the words “caption this” was hastily taken down, but it provoked an angry response from former United players.
Gary Neville, the former United captain, said: “‘Caption This’ You do one as well!”
Darren Fletcher, the former United midfielder, branded Pogba’s actions “totally out of order”.
“I don’t think he’s conducted himself well recently and I think he needs a kick up the backside,” Fletcher said. “And I think his post today, whether it was his team or whatever, it was totally out of order. That’s a big concern for me.
“Everybody talked about, ‘Who’s going to go, is it going to be Pogba or Mourinho?’ Now, if Pogba starts thinking that he’s bigger than Mourinho, there’s your next problem.”
The club felt that they had no choice but to address the culture of negativity around their squad and that the situation had the potential to get much worse as long as the Portuguese was at the helm. The United manager was filmed being driven away from Salford’s Lowry Hotel, where he has lived at an estimated cost of £600 a night while working at the club.
He is understood to have been paid around £15 million in compensation for the remainder of the new contract he signed with the club in January.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...cked-manchester-united-manager-departs-clubs/

 

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Jose Mourinho has emotional 'last supper' at the Lowry Hotel where staff are 'heartbroken' following news of manager's Manchester United sacking

• Jose Mourinho was sacked by Manchester United on Tuesday morning
• After being axed he returned to the Lowry Hotel where he has lived since 2016
• He had an emotional meal at lunchtime and hugged members of hotel staff
• Some workers were upset and many were said to be heartbroken by his sacking

By MIKE KEEGAN FOR MAILONLINE
UPDATED: 21:34 GMT, 18 December 2018

Jose Mourinho held an emotional 'last supper' – albeit at lunchtime – amid tearful scenes and hugs at the Lowry Hotel.
Fresh from his sacking, the former Manchester United boss drove to the iconic city centre landmark he had called home for close to 900 days to pick up his belongings and settle his account.
One resident, who did not wish to be named, told Sportsmail that Mourinho had a final meal at lunchtime in the bar of the hotel when he returned from Carrington, to end a stay lasting two years and five months.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ars-Manchester-United-sack-Jose-Mourinho.html

 

[KuanTi01]

No matter come what may, Jose Mourinho is still the Special One! He is an out and out winner; not just Cups, trophies but also severance pay-outs. All those former Man U players esp. Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes who think so highly of themselves are mere armchair critics. It's so telling that they were not even considered for the post of interim manager. Instead the nice but quiet guy Ole is being picked. Lol

 

[Rogue Trader]

Mourinho had the full support of great Chelsea players like Drogba and Essien. They would run through walls for him.

At Man u he couldn't motivate Pogba Lukaku and Martial to even phay properly.

lesson learnt: African Niggers are not the same as European niggers. When they are rich and have a couple of medals under their belt, the Black Panther pattern will come out: this is Wakanda

 

[Rogue Trader]

No matter come what may, Jose Mourinho is still the Special One! He is an out and out winner; not just Cups, trophies but also severance pay-outs. All those former Man U players esp. Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes who think so highly of themselves are mere armchair critics. It's so telling that they were not even considered for the post of interim manager. Instead the nice but quiet guy Ole is being picked. Lol

Ole is working with the youth team I think. The other likely candidate is Giggs who's managing Wales.

Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville are TV pundits talking shit about Liverpool and man city. They would have tasted Jamie Yeo's salty pussy

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

JOSE GOT WHAT HE WANTED.

He wanted to be sacked so that he gets 24 millions in compensation.

It was so obvioius that there was only going to be ONE winner and it was THE SPECIAL ONE.

He is not past his prime. He is not stupid. He is a serial winner. He will join his next BIG CLUB within 1 month. His exit was his own engineering. Ver obvious from team selections.

NOW LETS TALK ABOUT MAN UTD.

We have money grabbing owners.

We have an idiot who is very good in securing commercial deals ( but little knowledge of football) running around like a little HITLER.

That is the REAL REASON why SAF left, followed soon after by DAVID GILL (who is a football club genius).

WHOEVER THE NEW MANAGER IS, WILL FAIL.

Now to the chee bye kia called POGBA.

THIs chee bye thinks he is world class but far from it.

Even at the worl cup, it was his team mates who carried him.

THIS CHEE BYE KIA IS CORRECTLY CALLED A VIRUS, INFLUENCING YOUNGER PLAYERS AND MUST BE SOLD IMMEDIATELY.

HE AND HIS AGENT WILL FUCK MAN UTD IN NO TIME.

BTW, i AM A DIE HARD MAN U FAN........there is no hope as long as the GLAZERS own the club and this ED hitler guy is running the show.

It's curtains for MAN UTD as long as they are there.

 

[Gallego99]

No matter come what may, Jose Mourinho is still the Special One! He is an out and out winner; not just Cups, trophies but also severance pay-outs. All those former Man U players esp. Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes who think so highly of themselves are mere armchair critics. It's so telling that they were not even considered for the post of interim manager. Instead the nice but quiet guy Ole is being picked. Lol

He is the special opportunist. He'll be looking for another club with the structure and backbone in place and repeat it all over again. He's simply not cut out to build a team from scratch. My guess is PSG will be his probable target. If Tuchel fails in CL, he'll likely be replaced.
As for the pundits Rio and Scholes, they're paid to critique. Give them a break. They're passionate about the club and it's their full time job now.

Ole worked with the youth team b4 at the tail end of Fergie's reign. He's familiar with the youth setup and Pogba was one of the trainee. Just have a feeling Ole's name popped out by none other than Sir Alex Ferguson himself. He has spoken highly of the baby assassin.

 

[Rogue Trader]

He will join his next BIG CLUB within 1 month.

He should not join any big club anymore. His giant ego will clash with other giant egos in the locker room and board room. his style of play is also outdated and too pragmatic.

instead he should fit in a club which has big aspirations to rise to the top - like the 2004 Chelsea.

 

[KuanTi01]

He is the special opportunist. He'll be looking for another club with the structure and backbone in place and repeat it all over again. He's simply not cut out to build a team from scratch. My guess is PSG will be his probable target. If Tuchel fails in CL, he'll likely be replaced.
As for the pundits Rio and Scholes, they're paid to critique. Give them a break. They're passionate about the club and it's their full time job now.

Ole worked with the youth team b4 at the tail end of Fergie's reign. He's familiar with the youth setup and Pogba was one of the trainee. Just have a feeling Ole's name popped out by none other than Sir Alex Ferguson himself. He has spoken highly of the baby assassin.

At least we have no issue with the baby-faced assassin!

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Can he save Man Utd again?

 

[yinyang]

From my soapbox, JM was a walking dead in recent months from 1-3 debacle to Hammers. And loss at Anfield was last straw,
so devoid of ideas.

Not only he lost control of the changing room, but his paranoia was most telling. Irony is 400 millions spent on players were sanctioned in his reign!

Another era past, hopefully we don't see more of his double decker buses on turf.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

$400 million not even Top 3. Lol... he would have been sacked long ago if he was playing Football Manager!

 

[syed putra]

Jose Mourinho should coach Singapore...

Nobody allowed to have higher salary than PM.

 

[syed putra]

nothing to show for and yet highest paid and no iron rice bowl - sounds familiar?
anyway, it was about time for JM to fuck off - if only to salvage the situation and have atop 4 finish for the epl as I seriously doubt they can go any further in the c-league - given the state they're in now

Its the same as what happened at leicester city with ranieri. The players made sure managers get booted out by not playing.

 

[Semaj2357]

Its the same as what happened at leicester city with ranieri. The players made sure managers get booted out by not playing.

nah, ranieri was booted out as his main players were poached after their success.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Irony is 400 millions spent on players were sanctioned in his reign!

JM did not have total control of trading players at Man u. Much of the decision making was done by the board. If he could he would have sold uncooperative players like Martial and Pogba.

Locker room revolt is a real problem in the modern game.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Its the same as what happened at leicester city with ranieri. The players made sure managers get booted out by not playing.

Yes. Ranieri's sacking was a disgrace .. he had accomplished so much for Leicester yet he got treated like that

 

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1. 'A bit more love'
   
   
   
   More from Danny Gabbidon: "You look at Jose Mourinho, one of the best managers in the world and that seemed to be one of his biggest problems, policing the dressing room. I don’t think that’s needed as much, Ole just needs to go in there, he doesn’t need to police the dressing room too much, it’s about him being really positive and creating an atmosphere for the players to enjoy their football.
   "He’ll come in and create a really good atmosphere for the players and staff to work in. That’s what’s needed, an arm around the players more than going in and letting the players know who’s boss - a bit more love!
   
   
2. 'The more I think about it, the more sense it makes...'
   
   
   
   Former Cardiff and Wales defender Danny Gabbidon, who was brought back to the Bluebirds as a player/coach under Solskjaer in 2014, has explained to BBC Radio 5 live what the Norwegian will bring to Old Trafford.
   "He had a fantastic personality, obviously he was heavily influenced by his time at Manchester United working under Sir Alex Ferguson, the training methods, some of the things he used to say in the dressing room, the way he used to rotate the team a lot," he said.
   "The more I think about this the more it makes sense, a man that knows Manchester United inside out, was reserve team manager there in 2008, I think he will bring a positivity back to the team which is needed.
   "He’s not a ranter or a raver in the dressing room, he’s very calm he’s level-headed and I think that’s exactly what’s needed, he will calm the players down and give them the confidence and give them the freedom to play."
   
   
3. The loan deal
   
   
   
   
   The loan of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has not come for free for Manchester United.
   The Mirror report that United will pay his Norwegian employers Molde £1.8m to borrow his services until the end of the season.
   "In the event that United wanted to appoint Solskjaer on a permanent basis, United would have to splash out a further £8m" the Mirror adds.