I also want a manager who whos the English game as well as Fergie so CQ is the man.

Only two of the players you mentioned there were Mourinho signings.

Every player Mourinho signed who did well was a player every top club in Europe were after, Chelsea could just outbid them. He didn’t unearth ANY talent in his three years as manager.

Mourinho couldn’t sign any kindof flair player to save his life. SWP and Malouda are the closest he ever got. He didn’t have a Ronaldo to play with because he didn’t buy a Ronaldo.

His tactics are anti-football. If you’d be happy to have a manager who turned us in to a 1-0 winning team, because “all that matters is winning” then fair do’s. I aspire for much bigger things for our club though.

One thing that I do like about him is that he has a great deal of respect for Fergie, United and it’s players and fans. He had a friendly rivalry with Fergie as opposed to the bitter ones Fergie has had with Wenger, Keegan, Benitez and Grant. This speaks of Mourinho’s admiration for our club. Clearly he would jump at the chance to manage United if the chance ever came as it is a club he respects. He just needs to be left alone and be allowed to do things his way. They may not play as attractive as we do now but he wins. The Chelsea supporters were gutted when he left. Why? Because they were drunk from all the winning. Winning is all that matters.

Bottom line Scott is the man just wins. Lets not forget what he did with Porto before he went to Chelsea. He won the CL with a Portuguese side. It wasn’t a Spanish, Italian German or English side that won the trophy that year. His one black mark is his inability to beat Rafa Benitez in the CL. Had he managed that, he might have had a few more CL trophies in his cabinet. Like him or not he’s a champion. Even if he does say so himself. The Special One is not my first choice but he would be a good second choice. And lets not forget that he is Portuguese and that a core nucleus of our team speak that language. That can only be good.

If CQ wasn’t given the job, he would leave. I think that would be dreadful news for the club. We can’t forget how important CQ has been in regards to Ronaldo, Nani and Anderson either.

Aside from Mourinho being an arrogant twat, he is rubbish in the transfer market and doesn’t know the mean of attacking football. How could anyone want him to manage United? Everything our club has stood for over its entire history would go out of the window. I’d hate for him to take over.

I personnally get very frustrated each time SAF gets in a meddling mood, trying players out of position – e.g. Ronaldo at CF.

I firmly believe that United would have been much more successful in Europe in the past ten years had it not been for the negative tactics (Remember Porto?)

But hey, very few managers actually utilize more than 2 or 3 formation types.

On the other hand, I quite agree with your list of potential non-UK candidates to replace SAF, though for me personally, the ability to communicate fluently with players must be a prime factor to take into consideration. A year of intensive English courses might be sufficient to make the Italians proficient in English, but that does not mean they will be able to use the language to properly communicate emotions, which is crucial in motivation and man-management.

And no mater how you look at it, an Italian manager would bring italian players to Manchester and that would mean more flopping, more moaning and a much less direct way of tackling the game which is not very Utd.-like.

As you rightly said, the key is finding the right MIX between continental and British approach to playing the game.