Pep Guardiola, to start with, shares more or less the same football philosophy with United, being from Spain where socialism is the order of the day he would find no problems settling with the United faithful, who for many years have identified themselves as people with working class values, he was responsible for grooming several youngsters who shine at Barça now which means that he will find no issues with giving the youth a chance, something United have been keen to do in all the years, he is a keen disciplinarian who harbors no sentiments for superstars with egos, something Fergie has always been known to have, where I see him failing at Old Trafford is that I don’t think he is ready to emulate Fergie in being an Old Trafford legend by staying at the club even a quarter of the time Fergie himself spent with the it. Why am I saying so? It’s simple, he would have stayed at Barca why did he leave? In the first place as he has been Barca through and through from being a ball boy, to a La Masia graduate, Barça captain, team be coach and finally the big boss at the senior team.
United will seek to have someone who is a Sir Alex Ferguson clone, someone who will be ready to be with the club for many years, being afforded the time to build teams and rebuild them throughout different durations, I think Pep is a passive coach who comes works and leaves something United will not be ready to accommodate, since theirs is a team whose foundations have stood the test of time with Fergie at the helm for all those years, which is why I think Pep would be a tailor fit for a role at Chelsea, a club who always want to rush things with readymade coaches and players.
Having said that about Pep, let’s turn the attention to "The special one". Jose shares a lot of things with Sir Alex Ferguson, he wants to have things his way in controlling the club, he is ambitious, he is a winner and will take no prisoners when on a mission to win, Fergie has even gone on record to say that Mou reminds him of his younger days, which may or may not mean anything considering it as one reason football writers have gone to think as why he and Pep may be considered as his successors. His record is next to none and that leaves no doubt as to why even he himself has it within him to dream of coaching united at one point. Why I think he doesn’t fit the bill to be the main man at United? My reasons are here:
Mourinho is a coach whom the word readymade was definitely coined for, he has only been known to build a team from the scratch once in his days at Porto, apart from that he has always wanted huge financial support in the transfer market (of coz every coach wants that anyway). But at United there's always that culture of giving the academy lads a chance and to me that’s where Mourinho would not be a United man. Moreover that, if we called Pep a journeyman then we definately have to write another dictionary to get another word of the same meaning for Mourinho, a man who has spent 8 years at 4 diferent clubs. In simple mathematics, 2 years at each one,mind you he came while Sir Alex Ferguson had already been at united for over a decade and a half. My last reason is this, the fact that Mourinho has sat at the bench of Chelsea who have for the best part of the last decade been United's closest challengers for English football supremacy automatically rules him out.
While he has gone on record saying that his heart is in England and that he will eventually go back at some point, mark my words the return to England will not be associatted with the red Manchester team, if at all he does come back a return to Chelsea, a stint at Man City (to give them their much craved euro glory) or a role with the England national team are his best chances of a job in the British islands, beyond that AC Milan may be tempting, especially when they get their finances sorted and a return to coach his homeland national team is also on the cards. Having given my views on why I think the former El Clásico rivals Pep and Mourinho won’t be succeeding Fergie, it is only fair that I give an opinion on who I think may succeed Fergie at the Old Trafford hot seat.
There are many names Roy Keane, Gary Neville, David Moyes, Steve Bruce... one name comes into my mind two actually, take a guess, wait for it... enter one Mr. or should I say "Sir to be" Ryan Giggs. You heard me right Ryan Giggs is my perfect candidate for the Old Trafford job, amongst all players past and present no one fits the bill as much as the welsh wizard does. 12 EPL trophies, 2 European champions league trophies, and more than 900 professional games to his name is as much a CV as anyone can have.
Giggs is an Old Trafford legend who commands more loyalty and respect from Sir Alex Ferguson himself than anyone the "hairdryer master" has ever coached, he holds a couple of UEFA coaching badges (which means that he has been auditioning himself for the job). Giggs will know more than anyone how Sir Alex Ferguson has handled players since he has been there since day one of the building process and will know firsthand through the different changes that have gone in the game, how to deal with all types of individuals having learnt from the master.
Managers are known to possess one aspect of ruthlessness and a lack of sentiments, an aspect Ryan Giggs surely has (you have to look at how he bedded his brothers misers to know that). Giggs will receive help from a certain graduate of Fergie’ famous fledglings Paul Scholes whose quiet demeanor fits the bill of the right hand man, who knows the rules to the trade and is willing to assist whenever called upon. He worked with the United B teams in his short retirement stint which should mean something.
It may be an assumption that I have but I believe the candidate to replace forgive will be a man he (forgive) has nurtured himself, on top of that he has to be a man who will be ready to listen to forgive who will still be around sitting somewhere in the board room sharing a thought or two on how things should be run. To me, Ryan Giggs is the perfect candidate to replace forgive since he is a mini forgive, having played for United under forgive and being the only player whom the old man has always trusted for all those years.
Writer: Geoffrey Lea @geoffiejeff
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