Reports making the round in the
Spanish media circle after
former coach of Barcelona Pep
Guardiola missed the elite UEFA
Coaches forum and
coincidentally or not Manchester
United’s manager Sir Alex
Ferguson was also missing from
the forum only for both men to
be sighted together in New York
probably in talks over the
former Barca manager’s
possibility of taking over the
torch from Sir Alex at the end of
2012.
An issue that has generated so
much debate amongst fans of the
Red Devils’ and pundits alike for the
better part of the last decade, and it
seems as though the question of
who will be the next Manchester
United manager may finally be
answered.
Of course, we shouldn’t get ahead
of ourselves too much here. Yes, the
fact that these two managers
skipped the Forum to have private
talks on a completely different
continent is somewhat intriguing,
but after all, these two men are
friends away from the pitch.
Who’s to say that they hadn’t had
this friendly catch-up planned for a
while and didn’t want to postpone it
any further, despite it clashing with
UEFA’s annual event.
What is really driving the rumours is
the fact that Guardiola—along with
Jose Mourinho—has been one of the
breakaway favourites to take on the
United job for a long time now.
When the former Barca man
stepped down and announced that
he would be taking a year off from
football, those suspicions were only
heightened.
It has been spoken about in
whispers this summer that the
current Premier League season may
be the final one for the great Sir
Alex Ferguson in being charge of
Manchester United.
This, coinciding with Guardiola’s
year-long break, now followed by a
“coincidental” meeting in America,
will only continue to fuel the
rumours of the Spaniard’s possible
arrival at Old Trafford next summer.
Nothing is confirmed yet by any
means, but perhaps United’s future
post-Fergie is slowly starting to
reveal itself.
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