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Why Jose Mourinho would be perfect for Manchester United after Sir Alex Ferguson

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So Jose Mourinho has announced that he is to return to England and the Premier League when he leaves Real Madrid and while he may deny that he plans to replace Sir Alex Ferguson when he eventually retires at Manchester United, consensus is growing that the “Special One” will take up the reins at Old Trafford.

Accepting Mourinho into Old Trafford would undoubtedly not be a universally popular choice. Firstly, Manchester United have long been committed to vibrant, attacking football – certainly not a style you would immediately associate with Mourinho’s teams. While the Portuguese’s philosophy has lightened somewhat at Real Madrid, it would perhaps have been difficult not to when Los Blancos can call on the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Mesut Ozil, Angel Di Maria and Karim Benzema. Additionally, Mourinho tends to disregard what has gone before him upon entering a new job, restructuring teams from top to bottom.

Would fans want Mourinho to come in and completely obliterate all that Sir Alex Ferguson has left behind him simply to suit his wants and needs? And if he wasn’t allowed to, just how would Mourinho cope with this new problem in his managerial career? Indeed, we must also touch on the issues of the Glazers and their apparent financial constraints on the club. While United to do seem be alleviating this with their massive commercial contracts and having just splashed £24 million on a 29-year-old in Robin Van Persie, in recent years the club’s spending has been rather modest and Mourinho has almost always needed masses to spend wherever he’s been in order to strengthen his squad.

However, for all of those arguments, there still remains the overriding feel that of all the managers out there at the moment, Mourinho remains the best-equipped to take over the mantle from Ferguson. Firstly, there is no doubt that anyone who replaces the Scotsman needs to have broad shoulders and the character to take over from arguably the greatest manager of all time. It will be a job that would make some shrink but for Mourinho, it is a challenge that he would surely relish and rise to. Mourinho has often talked of his managerial projects as if they were simply checkpoints. England? Tick. Make Chelsea into title winners? Tick. Italy? Tick. Win the Champions League with Inter? Tick. Spain? Tick. Overcome arguably the best team of all time in Barcelona to win back La Liga for Real Madrid? Tick. The notion of possibly building upon or even improving Ferguson’s record would be the type of “tick” that would surely inspire Mourinho like no other manager.

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