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Love him or hate him, what the bloke has achieved is second to none, a great manager.

Ha Ha....predicted this in the pub the other night. With Mourinho on the verge of leaving Real, it had to happen to get  him.

glad to see the back of this grumpy cunt. I'd love for Mourinho to go to Man Utd instead of Chelsea though!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Mourinho is a winner and Man Utd love them or hate them are a club that wins things, its the only club Mourinho really needs to manage now.

I think appointing Mourinho would be a mistake. I can't think who else there would be. Is the bayern manager retiring or did I dream that?

He's grumpy, arrogant, aggressive, incomprehensible, but is still probably the greatest manager British football has seen.

I'm not sure if he's retiring but Pep is taking over next season.

I know Guardiola is taking over, but wasn't sure on their current bloke. He's done well there.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Jurgen Klopp as his replacement. It'd be a loss for Dortmund, but his team are slowly beimg sold off and short of the Champions League, he's won all he can.

I've never known any other manager at Man Utd, it will be wierd next season.

Whoever replaces him is going to find it tough, quite a tough act to follow...

First Thatcher dies, then Ferguson retires. Somewhere there is a Scouser with a lamp and one wish left...

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I just thought of this brilliant joke.

First Thatcher dies, then Ferguson retires.

Somewhere there is a Scouser with a lamp and one wish left.

Your one's the best, Sonic, because you thought it up yourself.

Moyes looks to be in the running. Would be a good appointment, has done a solid job at Everton without much backing, money wise.

I'd love to see Moyes get it, been a great manager at Everton for years!

Whoever takes it will be slaughtered the moment anything goes wrong, thus everyone thinks Mourinho is the obvious choice because he has an ego the size of Belgium and wouldn't care what anyone thought.

He's going out on top, winning the title and getting it back from Man City...1500 games at United by the time he'll have finished! Great achievement!

Just saw this in the comments section on the BBC. Made me laugh :

First Thatcher dies and now Fergie retires. Somewhere out there there's a Scouser with a magic lamp and one wish left...

You're about the 100th person I've seen make that joke today.

Sorry Samdy !!

I know a really funny joke about this.....

Really? The ones I've seen are all crap.

Looks like it's Moyes, he's 10/1 on now with the bookies.

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The more I think about it, the more Mouriniho looks like George Michael.

Seriously, mentally stick some sunglasses on those pictures.

I've discussed this with Manure supporting mates over the years and i've always seen Moyes as the man to take over and they haver not always agreed. Now the time has come i'm not sure myself as Fergies shoes are maassive ones to fill. Moyes has not had huge sums of money to spend and although he has done a great job at Everton hasn't won anything.

Mourinho has a huge ego so the job won't faze him and he guarantees trophies. Doesn't stay at clubs for years though so that counts against him a bit

Jose is the cheese.

The only sensible choice if you're Man Utd.

I know he's been on about retirement for years, but it all seems a bit sudden.

Am I the only one that's thinking the Man Utd board / owners realised that if they wanted Mourinho as Ferguson's replacement then the only time was now and they must've given him some incentive (£££) to go?

You'd still take Ferguson over Mourinho though.

Mourinho keeps becoming available every couple of years anyway...

Him and Phil Jones will get on, gurning masters

Not sure about Moyes for this gig.

Seems like they want to go for a Ferguson Lite - younger jock.

Some of the players he has bought for Everton for small(ish) money and done well, would get slaughtered if he bought that type for Man U.

For someone who has never had money to buy at the top end of the market it could spell disaster.

Is Fergie going upstairs or will he vacate Old Trafford for good. Last thing any new man needs is his shadow ghosting around the place

He is going on the board

He's been paid enough money over the years to afford to re-invest some...

For all his undoubted anger and smugness on the touchline, there's something incredibly sweet about the way Ferguson bounces around like a giddy toddler when United score.

Don't like him, but I suppose that's natural reaction to the whinging, moaning bastard. Can't argue about what he's achieved though. Don't think any manager,  anywhere, will ever get the longevity at a top flight club that he enjoyed. Something of a poison chalice for whoever takes over, constantly being compared to the greatest club manager of all time.

This should probably be in the what's wrong with football thread. I've just checked into a hotel and put the tv on. The Asian business news has amongst the stories on Sony etc, a story and discussion on the business ramifications of the old git retiring. It's business before football as usual.

Swindon fans giving a damn about what happens at a Premier league club.

David Moyes signs a six year deal and will join Manchester United on 1 July.


can I be the first to say that Moyes will be a dismal failure and Mourinho will win the league at a canter with Chelsea next season?

6 (six) years?

Just made the mistake of switching on talksport briefly. Adrian Durham's opening comment was 'What next for Everton fans then: relegation?' :facepalm:

He then went on to claim Moyes was the wrong man for the job based on a video he'd seen of him running for a bus, wondering what stock market traders would make of it watching from America (indifferent I'd assume), and observing you wouldn't see Sir Alex Ferguson doing it, to which his co-presenter incredulously replied: "He's 71 and needs a hip operation."

I really have no idea what he was going on about.

He also seemed to think Rooney was leaving as a result of Moyes coming in, and that was another strike against Moyes name, even though it's pretty clear he wanted out well before any of this occurred.

I switched off after that but assume it continued in the same vain. How can someone paid to know about football know so little about football?

I used to get infuriated in the same way by him and a few others they have on there.

Then I realised they aren't paid to know about football, they're paid to be controversial to make a story and rile people up to call in.

Got to be a limited compo clause in case it doesn't work out. Saying that, apparently Newcastle has not put one in Pawdew's eight year contract...

Adrian Durham is an infuriating wind-up merchant. Take him with a heavy dose of salt.

Him and his side-kick Darren Gough always adopt diametric arguments. Strange that, eh? Chicken feed for the masses.

Durhams a cunt.

When Durham plays straight-bat he is superb, but his "Drive-Time" efforts on TalkSport are an utter embarrasment to listeners' intelligence. One of his subjects last week were "Bayern Munich - are they all that?" Underscores his shock jock appraoch

Yes, Durham's too busy being forced to do his poking people with a stick routine to prove he's actually good on any other level.

They used to try the 1-2 act with Gough taking up the opposite position, but sadly he wasn't sharp enough to pull that off. So now he's just a sidekick.