User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 505: Trump Card, Review/@comment-1359322-20161007133538/@comment-7418318-20161008074226

There's no reason to consider Gildarts. He made it quite unmistakably clear that he doesn't want to be guild master the first time Makarov tried that.

He'll just pawn the position off to someone else and disappear again.

Also he isn't really suited to begin with. Sure he's strong, experienced in traveling and fighting and respected by the guild members, but beyond that he has pretty much no qualification.

He's no beaurocrat, no leader, no organizer and rather irresponsible. In all seriousness Max would make a better guild master than Gildarts... come to think of it Max would actually make a great guild master if he wasn't so weak. ^^