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Arsenal may be in a unique situation where they should be rooting for rivals Manchester United. Is there any reasoning for this sacrilege?
Arsenal’s season has not gone according to plan. Although to say that it is ‘shocking’ would be false as well, given that Arsenal regularly pull stunts like this. Aside from an outside shot at a title, the next thing we can hope for is a better 2016/17 season.
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Many out there are talking about how Pep Guardiola will make Manchester City a juggernaut, but I am not fazed. What does faze me is the prospect of Arsenal’s arch-nemesis, Jose Mourinho, going to Manchester United. Not because he will build a lasting legacy — that isn’t how the Special One works — but because he will provide another obstacle for the two or three years that he is there.
The last thing Arsenal needs is another obstacle. Just look at this year.
We don’t know what’s going on for sure with Jose Mourinho, but the reports indicate that it is not a given that he will end up opposite Arsenal at Manchester United. Louis van Gaal is supposed to be there until the close of the 2017 season and as a proud and successful coach, he is not going to just roll over and let Mourinho come in and end his run prematurely.
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Some reports indicate that van Gaal will have a chance to win his job back. Others add to this and say that the deal is such that, the longer United wait, the more they will have to pay Mourinho. It’s all very intriguing.
What it all comes down to is that if van Gaal finds some sort of success, he will stay. Again, supposedly. Otherwise they would have pulled a Manchester City and pre-fired him already.
Perhaps I’m looking at this the wrong way, but I don’t want Jose Mourinho back in the Premier League, particularly not at Manchester United. Not just because he gets on my nerves, but because Mourinho going to United would probably push Zlatan to United as well and the last thing I want is to try to learn to hate Zlatan. That’s not a life I want to live.
Plus, Mourinho and Zlatan facing down Arsene Wenger? No thank you. Although it would be particularly fun to beat them.
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I want van Gaal to remain at United because their ceiling does not seem that high with him.