Ryan Giggs could leave Manchester United this summer if the club go ahead and appoint former Chelsea and Real Madrid manager, Jose Mourinho, who has been heavily linked ever since being sacked by the London club in December last year, report The Mirror.
The Welshman will end his 29-year-long relationship with the club over the course of two careers – as a player and as an assistant manager – if the Portuguese is appointed the manager of the club. Given Louis van Gaal's inability to guide the club into the automatic UEFA Champions League slots as well as failing to win any piece of silverware - barring this season's FA Cup which is yet to be played - the club and the fans feel the time has come for him to call it a day.
The Dutchman, however, has stuck to Manchester United's ethos of promoting youth players, trying to ensure at least that his team play some free-flowing football but if often criticised to encourage 'boring' football within his squad.
While Manchester City have confirmed the appointment of Pep Guardiola, Chelsea of Antonio Conte and with the likes of Jurgen Klopp, Arsene Wenger, Mauricio Pochettino and Rafael Benitez already in the league, United's board and Executive Vice-Chairman, Ed Woodward, are trying to ensure they remain competitive in the league come the beginning of the new season.
According to the report, Ryan Giggs is being asked to leave the club and take up management elsewhere by his friends and business partners Gary Neville and Phil Neville – former United stars who graduated the same time as the 'Flying Welshman'.
With the appointment of Jose Mourinho comes the appointment of his own backroom staff whom he has ensured get the job wherever he is employed. While that may make things easier for the Portuguese manager, it might work against Ryan Giggs' role in the club.
Then there's the issue of the 'philosophy'; Jose Mourinho isn't the kind of manager who will develop a youth system – or a club – to ensure that they produce talent from within to challenge on all fronts. He'd rather spend big on established stars and mould them into the players he wants and this goes dead against any of what Manchester United are as a club and dead against the whole figure of Ryan Giggs.
