Ryan Giggs is in the footballing wilderness if he leaves Manchester United.

He has spent 29 years at one club - a top club. He knows absolutely nothing else since playing for the school team. That is not attractive for a recruiting club looking for a new manager. I suspect clubs who would be interested would be driven by owners looking for a bit of publicity on the back of his name. If there wasn't the Leeds - Man Utd rivalry you could see him as being the type their owner would fancy. Bring him in for the hype and then have him sacked by Christmas if he hasn't done brilliantly.

I feel the "good" clubs for Giggs are "good" clubs BECAUSE they wouldn't consider hiring the likes of Giggs as manager.

Great point about Jones, aka The Incredible Injured Man.

Physically, he's right up Mourinho's street, but his exoskeleton seems to be made out of balsa wood.

He literally gets injured adjusting the climate control on his Range Rover Sport (or whatever footballer's wives stereotypical car he drives)!

I can't see Jose sticking with him, but we shall see.

Ahh so the nickname has passed from Hargreaves to Jones?

I wonder just who will get that title after Jones, hopefully no-one!

They don't seem to distinguish between Giggs the player and potential manager who has less qualifications than Moyes. LVG's failure has been a silver lining by the looks off it.

It's the same with those banging the 'he knows the club' but don't appear to have anything else to offer drum.

It will be interesting to see how he gets on but I wish him well regardless.

You have to completely put aside the playing career as that is totally different to being a manager, so what a player has achieved means nothing in the grand scheme of being a manager.

The two jobs or roles are just so very different from each other.

So Giggs is just starting at the very beginning of his coaching/managerial career, so he should be talked about in such terms, as say novice, or such like, as that is what he is in this new career.

Giggs is the equivalent of the bloke still living at home even though his mum and dad wish he'd stand on his own two feet & **** off and stop scrounging.

I'm sure he has his uses but he's taking pee and should take the hint.

Yeah, the type who thinks he knows it all but in truth its all theory with absolutely no real world experience to validate it.

I suspect in his own mind he thinks he's loved and adored but in truth a lot of people see him for what he really is.

He really needs to get some experience outside of his comfort zone, as that will be to hos advantage in the long-term.

United selling their best player to Real Madrid, when they didn't really want to.

You'll probably waffle on about transfer fees, but there's no way that Madrid are going to do that for a goalkeeper. Besides, as you said yourself, the player needs to want the move. Last year, he certainly did. This year, it looks like he probably doesn't. In no small part down to Mourinho, I suspect.

By the way, I've noticed that you've been posting even more than normal, lately. Job search not going great, after the doctor gave you the 'all clear'?

If you need any interview tips, just let me know. I'm a boss at interviews. Anything come of that TEFL stuff?

I hope the Zlatan rumours are true.

Gutted that Falcao was done before he reached us but my inner muppet hopes that Zlatan can give us one last hurrah before he moves on and that age really is just a number.

He is one amazing specimen of a footballer/man.😳😳

Sky Sports are reporting it so it's not exactly a rumour at this point.

Not that long ago Sky were insisting that Louis would see out his contract despite several foreign sources claiming Jose was a done deal several months ago.

I'm not sure they're as hot on transfers they were a while back.

Well they don't tend to post stories unless it's true and confirmed, outside of their gossip pages. They're far more reliable than your average Twitter ITK.

If Sky Sports say Ibrahimovic is signing a one-year contract then Ibrahimovic is signing a one-year contract.

Bit harsh to say that I would waffle on about something, I would calmly put forward my thoughts, I don't call or class that as waffling.

The only times we have sold a high profile player to Real Madrid (off the top of my head) were Ronnie, Becks, and Ruud, and in all three cases we were in control of the deals.

Would ideally it have been better if for example Ronnie had stayed a little longer? Of course, but we did by all accounts get an extra year out of him, then perhaps we might otherwise have done, so from that perspective, we were the ones in control of when he was going to leave.

So I don't quite know which example you are pointing at when you say us selling a player when we didn't want to, to Real Madrid, please explain that to me, as I am a tad unsure over that part of your post.

Last year I said that it would be pointless unless we got a huge offer for him, for us to sell him, and my position on that has not changed, as replacing what he brings to the team, is a very hard task, if not impossible.

At the end of that summer, to prove how much he wanted to stay here, De Gea signed a new long-term deal with us, that surely showed that he wanted to be here, and to help us win more trophies.
Real Madrid, just don't come into the equation anymore, as they tried their best to get him last summer, and they came up short, I don't see why they would be anymore successful this one, as we have even less of a reason to sell him now, and with his new contract longer than what his old one had left to run last summer, his price tag also went up as well.

So, I can see him here for a good while longer yet, as, as long as he wants to stay here, then there is no reason for us to even contemplate selling him.

Does seem to be more than likely, at this point.

Can't say that I'm not excited by the prospect. Meanwhile, Chelsea are linked to Gyan and Benteke. I'd find either move pretty odd.

As for the Zlatan deal, if it is for the one season, then that is great, as he can teach our younger players a thing or two, and it won't disturb their development, it can only help it, as he is a natural born winner, and that is what we need with in our squad.

Surely even after such a poor season, Chelsea can attract a better calibre of players then those two?

I am sure Liverpool would bite their hands off to do a deal over Benteke, although I don't think it would quite match the daylight robbery of the Torres deal, if Chelsea were to pay anything near what Liverpool payed for him, then they would be very chuffed indeed one can imagine.

We sold Ronaldo. We didn't want to.

The stuff about the extra year, etc. is waffle. Everybody knows about that stuff, so it's superfluous guff. It doesn't change the fact.


He signed a new contract to get a pay rise. Van Gaal had also made it fairly obvious that he wouldn't be picked until he did.

Thank God we also turned down the chance of Vardy as has been reported.

There are more attractive players amongst his teammates that I'd be interested in rather than him.

Would be delighted if Zlatan ends up at United for a year or two it is a win win situation for me yes he is knocking on but he will still score goals, he will improve us up front and he will helped the like of Rashford and Martial which can't be a bad thing also it will be interesting times at United with Mourinho and Zlatan which is exactly what we need after the bore fest under LVG.

We sold Ronaldo because the deal made sense on a lot of levels, we agreed with him to stay the extra year, which he did, and then we managed to get a world record fee for him, so we were very much in control of that deal, not Real Madrid.

Whatever the reason for De Gea signing the contract, the fact remains that he decided himself to sign it, so that shows a certain level of commitment even you must see that?
If he really didn't want to be here, he wouldn't have signed that deal.

Yes indeed, Kante and Marhez for starters.

None of which changes that fact.

We didn't want to sell him, but we did.

We made the best of a bad situation, but it was still a bad situation.


Yes, I do 'see that'. He had a commitment to earn more money and to play football, rather than sitting on the bench.

The deal was in our hands, we got the extra year, we negotiated a huge sum for his services, those was our doing, and not Real Madrid's, they were just the interested party.

Those are the facts that we are talking about here.

So we have not to my knowledge sold a player to Real Madrid that we did not want to or were not in control of the deal.

As for De Gea, he signed the deal to stay with us, (the pay increase no doubt helped, but if he was determined to leave, then us offering him a pay increase would not have changed his mind, as you would think that Real could have afforded to pay him very handsomely as well) and from there put Real away, as there is no way they are going to be willing to pay anywhere near what it would cost to make us change our minds.