Mourinho wants Monchi as sporting director

http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2016/05/...o_rsoc=comp_tw

http://en.as.com/en/2016/05/30/footb...mnil=resrelart

Looks like the italian mobster at Atletico turned us down

He's generally seen as the best in the business and isn't a Mendes puppet

Would be a great appointment and much needed if it happens

Mourinho wants someone to interfere with his job??

I don't get it.

What do they do?

Better news than Mourinho, but the fanboys won't see how huge that'd be, guy is a superstar in his field.

Originally Posted by Cream

Mourinho wants someone to interfere with his job??

I don't get it.

What do they do?

He's seen what a complete £#%&!ing buffoon Woodward is, and needs someone sorting the football shit out upstairs.

Originally Posted by Cream

Mourinho wants someone to interfere with his job??

I don't get it.

What do they do?

Mou ended up with trash like Falcao (great stuff from his buddy Mendes), Djilobodji, Pedro... He's smart enough to know he needs someone to buy players for him.

Originally Posted by Cream

Mourinho wants someone to interfere with his job??

I don't get it.

What do they do?

Mourinho's job isn't to scout players and then do the negotiations with the player and their club

Mourinho will give a criteria for the type of players he wants and then it would be up to Monchi to give him a list of potential players and then Mou would pick which ones he wants
It would then be up to Monchi to negotiate with the players club and the players agent and get the deal done

In a better run club the director of football would impose a clear football vision on the club and appoint first team coaches based on that vision and he would identify and sign players based on that vision

The lack of imagination at the club is embarrassing.

Maybe we could try and get Rumenigge, too. And bid for La Masia

Third manager in a row to walk into the club and wonder why nobody here knows anything about football?

Benitez's wife?

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Third manager in a row to walk into the club and wonder why nobody here knows anything about football?

Second.

Don't try and give Moyes any sort of credit

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

The lack of imagination at the club is embarrassing.

Maybe we could try and get Rumenigge, too. And bid for La Masia

Third manager in a row to walk into the club and wonder why nobody here knows anything about football?

Don't see the problem with the club (or in this instance maybe Mourinho ) looking to appoint one of if not the best director of football in European football

Obviously they should have done it before appointing their 3rd manager but if it happens it's a big step in the right direction

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

In a better run club the director of football would impose a clear football vision on the club and appoint first team coaches based on that vision and he would identify and sign players based on that vision

I'm sure the last manager mentioned this to Ed. And I'm sure Ed didn't understand a word of it.

Never heard of him.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Benitez's wife?

My initial thoughts too

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

I'm sure the last manager mentioned this to Ed. And I'm sure Ed didn't understand a word of it.

There's only one thing big Ed understands.....

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

Don't see the problem with the club (or in this instance maybe Mourinho ) looking to appoint one of if not the best director of football in European football

Obviously they should have done it before appointing their 3rd manager but if it happens it's a big step in the right direction

I know, it's just that having a massive scouting network and line of contacts throughout the world is something the club should already have. The idea that United need to bring on a Spanish bloke from Sevilla (as excellent as he is) to show them how to run a football club is just embarrassing.

Still, if someone like him is put in place and Mou continues the youth policy, then before long we might just be able to get away with everyone else above not having a clue what they're doing. I suspect neither will happen, mind.

Originally Posted by VodkaAndCoke

Never heard of him.

Used to manage Chelsea, Real Madrid, Inter etc. Now United manager.

Originally Posted by Clarkie

Second.

Don't try and give Moyes any sort of credit

It's far from giving him credit. Just that when someone like him shows up after a career at Preston and Everton and basically asks what the £#%&! is up with the scouting, you have to wonder.

Suppose there's a chance that Fergie's brother wasn't the most qualified chief scout we could have had

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

I know, it's just that having a massive scouting network and line of contacts throughout the world is something the club should already have. The idea that United need to bring on a Spanish bloke from Sevilla (as excellent as he is) to show them how to run a football club is just embarrassing.

Still, if someone like him is put in place and Mou continues the youth policy, then before long we might just be able to get away with everyone else above not having a clue what they're doing. I suspect neither will happen, mind.

Yeah what's the point of doing any of this. May as well just shut down the club and not bother.

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

It's far from giving him credit. Just that when someone like him shows up after a career at Preston and Everton and basically asks what the £#%&! is up with the scouting, you have to wonder.

Suppose there's a chance that Fergie's brother wasn't the most qualified chief scout we could have had

He did apparently report that big Ando was better than Rooney.

Moyes is no better. Sending Phil Neville to scout Muller only for Phil to say on TV that Muller wasn't "technically great" ffs