Hopefully it's a ploy to get Poch to tell PSG he wants out.

Can’t say I’d be especially excited about this.

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Why not?? He was quite successful and underrated during his time with Barcelona

Underrated perhaps, but also pretty dull in terms of the football, basically relying on Messi's genius to dig them out whenever they were in trouble. He also oversaw the Rome and Liverpool disasters.

His signing would probably make Ronaldo and Pogba happy though. He's a fairly accomplished photographer.

I knew little of him so looked him up last night when the rumours started circulating. Lots of experience in Spanish football, including multiple stints at Bilbao (where he played) and Olympiacos, also managed Valencia and Villarreal. Won the league twice at Barcelona but derided by fans for ugly football. I take the latter with a pinch of salt as they are particularly precious about the Barca way. Apparently, he's very pragmatic about what style of football to deploy: can be high press, can be more reactive, uses different formations to suit the situation and squad. The latter sounds like a good thing for an interim manager.

Spanish Moyes

I heard that he tends to delay substitutions.

I don’t know much about Valverde
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I thought everybody had heard about Valverde.

Does he have any training methods that can teach a group of players like ours how to keep possession of the ball for more than 3 passes?

comment by Clockwork Red: Jadon and the Argonauts (U4892)
posted 2 minutes ago
I don’t know much about Valverde
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I thought everybody had heard about Valverde.
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Valverde is the word.

Who?

comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 1 minute ago
Who?
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Why does that not surprise me that you have no idea who he is. 😁

He only managed FC Barcelona for a few years. Not some little club in Timbuktu.

You guys are gonna feck this whole process up aren't you

Once the City/PSG match is over I expect the Poch process to speed up. His words earlier gave the game away. My Christmas dream is so close to coming true 😎😎

BBC ran a story on this yesterday, so obviously some substance in it. I think its a decent move for the interim manager. Starting to look to me more like we want Ten Hag as the permanent manager.

comment by Glazers_Out (SE85) (U21241)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 1 minute ago
Who?
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Why does that not surprise me that you have no idea who he is. 😁

He only managed FC Barcelona for a few years. Not some little club in Timbuktu.
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Never heard of them

Spanish supporters call him a Profesor de educacion fisica

comment by Cinciwolf---VOTE CINCI! Bunch of cants. (U11551)
posted 10 minutes ago
You guys are gonna feck this whole process up aren't you
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Of course. 😂

comment by The Post Nearly Mancho (U1270)
posted 56 seconds ago
Spanish supporters call him a Profesor de educacion fisica
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😂

Professor? This indicates they regard him with great respect! Sign him up!

comment by Elvis: King of Cult (U7425)
posted 11 minutes ago
BBC ran a story on this yesterday, so obviously some substance in it. I think its a decent move for the interim manager. Starting to look to me more like we want Ten Hag as the permanent manager.
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Or that we don't have a facking clue what we want so want to get an interim to allow 7 months more dithering.

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comment by United we win (U19958)
posted 1 minute ago
Rather we do this and get ten hag. Don’t want Poch the serial loser
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Ten Hag bottled his biggest ever game to that serial loser

#justsaying

comment by United we win (U19958)
posted 5 seconds ago
Rather we do this and get ten hag. Don’t want Poch the serial loser
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What makes you think we'll get Ten Hag at the end of this? This is the United board we're talking about. Plus, Ten Hag won't get the structure he has at Ajax or even anything resembling it. So it would certainly be a risky, though possibly very rewarding move.

Poch is 11 points clear in Ligue In by the way. Sounds like a winner to me. If you're going to mock him for not winning trophies whilst ignoring the fact that the clubs he was at never win trophies, then you must also praise him for winning with a team that also wins. That's the problem with branding someone a loser or a winner without any context.

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*winning with a team that always wins