Louis Van Gaal and his lads from Lancashire have had nothing but bad luck. A barrage of injuries to everyone from captain Wayne Rooney, best player David De Gea, and pretty much every United defender, has left Van Gaal’s side in Europe’s second-tier cup and without hope of a top four finish at home. Van Gaal will not have a job by June and Jose Mourinho is the man set to replace him.
But is United making the right choice?
Louis van Gaal wants his players to be horny for the Europa League. Seriously. Here's the man himself.
Listen to Louis van Gaal say "horny" (via @SportDictator)pic.twitter.com/rkOFx54TXh
— HuffPost Sports (@HuffPostSports) February 24, 2016
Brendan Rodgers proposed to his girlfriend in Times Square. She said yes. This is undeniably happy news for the former Liverpool boss, but it closes the book on one of the greatest Premier League romances of all time: Brendan Rodgers and Joe Allen.
Congratulations to Brendan Rodgers who proposed today in public pic.twitter.com/gFwXTRQt67
— Indigo (@IndigoLFC) February 23, 2016
In an interview with BT Sport, Rafa Benitez opened up about the complications of working under the high-pressure conditions at Real Madrid. Benitez was sacked after just seven months in charge of Los Blancos, despite losing just three times while at the helm.
"You have to do everything perfect," Benitez told Gary Lineker. "As soon as something is wrong, or the chairman thinks something is wrong, then you start having problems."
Barcelona fan site Grup14 uploaded three very interesting infographics depicting the managerial statistics of Barcelona’s three “most successful coaches” through their first 100 games. While you won’t get any argument here about whether or not Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola, and Johan Cruyff are the best managers in Barca’s history, we’re going to ignore the “top 3” debate for now and focus on the top two: Enrique vs Guardiola.
It’s official, Pep Guardiola will join Manchester City next season and many changes are coming ahead for the Premier League Squad thanks to the arrival of the Spanish manager.
The 45-year-old is the most winning figure in modern soccer, winning 74.5 percent of games in his career, while only drawing 15.1 percent and just losing in 10.4 percent of the matches. This means that teams under his coaching get an average of 2.39 points per game. Plain impressive.
Mexico National Team manager Juan Carlos Osorio has drawn the ire of the U.S. soccer community for saying a thing that is true.
Osorio said that he preferred his players, particularly those in their primes, to play in Europe because it is more competitive there.
From Excelsior:
Poor Gary Neville. The former Manchester United captain took over at Valencia in December, making him the 20th British manager to try his luck in Spain. He has yet to get a win after eight games. Remember, this is a side that finished 4th in La Liga last year, and boasts some considerable talent in Paco Alcacer, Alvaro Negredo and Sofiane Feghouli. They now sit in 11th, and haven't won since the 7th of November. The pressure is definitely starting to mount for the newest addition to the British Manager Abroad Club.
According to Miguel Delaney of The Independent, Jose Mourinho has supposedly crafted a six-page letter to the Manchester United hierarchy expressing a desire to manage the struggling outfit.
Often I wonder what would happen if high-profile, top-spending managers were forced to manage for small, budget-minded sides. Wouldn’t this be a fun exercise? I see it in my dreams: Louis van Gaal slumming it in on a Thursday night in Ligue Deux, scouting unknowns like Riyad Mahrez instead of delivering briefcases of cash to PSV-Eindhoven for lab-sculpted Memphis Depay. Arsene Wenger taking over recently-bankrupt League 2 side Portsmouth and trying to teach the boys about the benefits of going to the French opera.