He did. With Victor Moses and Marcus Alonso on the flanks
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This new fella Amorim clearly thinks Manchester United is some kind of lab. He’s not in a diddy league now with diddy opposition, at a club with an undemanding fanbase who will give endless time to an ideological systems manager.
In the Premier League you get results and you get them now and you drill behind the scenes while muddling through and getting results in actual matches, or you face the consequences. You don’t get time for lab stuff unless you’re Guardiola at a diddy club, and Amorim is not Guardiola.
If Amorim has anything about him he’ll be currently planning for the mother and father of a bus parking exercise at Anfield on January 5th and trying to imagine the best way to fluke a goal off Virgil Van Dijk’s arse.
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Amorim has had 7 league games and it’s very underwhelming so far, result wise. You’d be fired in the likes of Italy if you were at one of the blue chip clubs and didn’t turn it around in 7 games.
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The full monty is on tg4 mate
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lol
Thought you’d have had enough of watching hapless men get exposed at the back today?
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Manchester United’s next two league games are against the Saudis at Old Trafford and the trip to Anfield. They have Arsenal away in the FA Cup after that. That’s a real possibility of three more defeats.
Amorim is very lucky he had the fixture against the Abu Dhabi whipping boys as a high profile get out and even then they were only a few minutes away from losing that.
But maybe like Ange Postecoglou that’s just the way he plays, mate. At least Ange can get a team to occasionally thump a decent opponent like Aston Villa. At the moment this Amorim fella looks like a Portuguese Stephen Kenny.
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Lads. It will NEVER. NOT. BE. FUN.
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It’s for flatty mate. He loves it. Try to keep up
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I just wouldn’t know enough about hipster leagues like Portugal to really comment on his credentials. Is it possible that Big Red Jim has hired a complete dud here though? Could that be why this Ashworth fellow left?
In the premier league era it’s Portuguese managers 3 all the English managers 0
Saudis and heysel up next.
Be absolutely hilarious to beat heysel.
Said the same tonight. Never… Pure Harmless.
The talk is that all the staff Brexit Jim hired in the last year who were supposedly the new broom who would revolutionise the club, none of them wanted Amorim, and Amorim doesn’t want them. Ashcroft, sorry Ashworth, basically realised his job was surplus to requirements and left.
Brexit Jim is beginning to make Todd Boehly at Chelsea look like a genius.
Brexit Jim swept aside the 11 years of Alex Ferguson looking on at continual Manchester United failure on the pitch and replaced Ferguson looking bemused in the stand with himself looking bemused in the stand. Ferguson at least actually knew something about football and had done something in football and had the authority to pull off that bemused onlooker in the stand persona. Brexit Jim does not and increasingly looks like a fool in a poker game, a fool in a poker game who is nonetheless increasing his monetary worth every minute due to his asset stripping investment.
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You have great insight as to what is really going on at Old Trafford. That’s very informative.
I haven’t spent six years as a troll poster on the INTERNET’s largest Manchester United forum for nothing.
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How long would you give this Amorim fellow?
Heysel is what the Glazers said to Martin Edwards and Edwards sold.
The views of the Top Reds like @BruidheanChaorthainn are pivotal in all this. The Top Reds like to give managers time. Brexit Jim reminds me a bit of Mike Ashley at Newcastle. He started off as a guy who very conspicuously wanted to be “one of the fans”, but of course he wasn’t. He was a rapacious capitalist. But he was happy to play a character safe in the knowledge that Newcastle fans were some of the most deluded and stupid on the planet. Ashley appointed Kevin Keegan because he was “one of the fans” and the fans wanted King Kev back. But soon enough he came to a point where he was sick of being one of the fans and his true capitalistic nature came out. He sacked Kevin Keegan after seven or eight months of undermining him. This was the line in the sand, or should have been. After this Ashley took delight in asset stripping Newcastle for all it was worth. But he was still able to play the fans like a fiddle and they were played like fiddles. He appointed Alan Shearer and they got relegated. Later on he appointed Rafa Benitez before Benitez walked out because he knew exactly what Ashley was up to and Benitez doesn’t tolerate somebody undermining him like that.
Brexit Jim up to now has been like Ashley in his “sitting in the away end and wearing the shirt” days, all while making poor Margaret the tea lady redundant and driving poor Kath on reception into her grave, and making @BruidheanChaorthainn a part time steward because he won’t pay any actual stewards. Manchester United fans aren’t as stupid as Newcastle fans though.
Well actually in some ways a lot of them are. They’re the people who wanted Ronaldo back. The dynamic between the Top Reds who will back Amorim come what may and the more cynical fans who are already losing patience, and Brexit Jim himself will be fascinating to watch. It could easily lead to a sort of inertia similar to Ten Hag where a lame duck manager has a long period of managed decline. Brexit Jim himself probably hasn’t reached the line in the sand where he ceases to give a toss what supporters think. He still has notions of being “one of them”. He still wants to be loved. But he isn’t. But he’s making a lot of money. And at the end of the day that’s really all that counts. And Manchester United is now primarily a content creation business. There’s no better content creation than a failing manager.
In football terms the bottom line is Amorim doesn’t have the personality, the charisma or the authority to go in and change a club from top to bottom and that’s what Manchester United need. Klopp was able to do it at Liverpool through being a unique force of personality. The rot is deeper at Manchester United though. There are so many bluffers and spoofers and spivs infesting the club at every level bar perhaps any remaining skeleton tea lady service that it’s hard to see who exactly could go in and kick the club into shape. Perhaps they need an accelerationist, nihilist type manager to get the club relegated first to readjust expectations and build from there. Perhaps Amorim could fulfil that role for them.
Variations of a lot of these dynamics played out at Liverpool over a period of 20 years but Manchester United are taking things to levels Liverpool could never have dreamed of.
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Amorim has to make United difficult to beat for the rest of the season. For that to happen he needs to firstly play more of a 5-3-2 than a 3-4-3 and secondly he needs to get the players to buy into it. This involves getting rid of the players who won’t buy into it; Rashford, Fernandes, Antony and it seems Garnacho. Playing a 3-4-3 means everyone has to work really hard to be successful. The above players will not do that for you