Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

DRJosh said:
Good to hear some positivity. I guess my confidence in us doing good business has been somewhat derailed by our poor history in transfer dealings pre-INEOS.

A couple of effective and hungry players should see us changed as a team…let’s hope our scouts are on to it.
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Think both summer and winter transfer windows were a hit.

There is a lot to be positive about. We have a lot of young talented players around.

Yoro (19)
Heaven (18)
Mainoo (19)
Dorgu (20)
Garnacho (20)
Diallo (22)
Hojlund (22)
Ugarte (23)

Even De Ligt is just 25. Add youngsters like Kone, Amass, Obi Martin... Just a few key signings, a good preseason and we'll have a much better season.
 
DJ_21 said:
Love that he solved our biggest problem. When he first joined we was awful at set pieces and conceded every corner pretty much. Now we look more solid. Dont know how he did it but he did.
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We've been ridiculously bad at set pieces for far too long. We are orders of magnitude better at them in recent months compared to the past decade. For the first time in a very long time, a corner or free kick in range that's given to us isn't an instant write off where you're more worried about a potential counter attack than us not scoring.

The sense of dread when we concede a corner or freekick is slowly becoming less of an issue too.
 
DRJosh said:
Great signs but for those expecting an influx of promising players this summer, I don’t think that’s happening. I won’t be surprised if we only get a single player in to replace Rashford.
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Nonsense :lol:
 
CM said:
Nice to get a couple of wins in a row. The feeling of losing most weeks seems to be lifting a bit, let's hope we can keep the momentum going after the international break and have a proper go at Europa.
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Really can’t decide if this break has come at a good time or a bad time.

Some players getting somewhat of a rest, more coaching time directly with the squad without a game looming, ending on a little bit of a high before the final stretch of the season.

Versus turning the corner, slightly, in the thick of the season and it comes to a halt for a bit and the squad disperses and potentially kills any feel good generated recently.

I’m definitely dreading games less but we could well lose to both Forest and City before the Lyon game. Even in some previous seasons I’d think “losing badly to City before Lyon wouldn’t be the worst thing, the players sometimes respond well to an embarrassment” but this iteration of the squad doesn’t seem to have that fire at all and losing those three games on the bounce finishes the season pretty brutally.
 
Jam said:
Really can’t decide if this break has come at a good time or a bad time.

Some players getting somewhat of a rest, more coaching time directly with the squad without a game looming, ending on a little bit of a high before the final stretch of the season.

Versus turning the corner, slightly, in the thick of the season and it comes to a halt for a bit and the squad disperses and potentially kills any feel good generated recently.

I’m definitely dreading games less but we could well lose to both Forest and City before the Lyon game. Even in some previous seasons I’d think “losing badly to City before Lyon wouldn’t be the worst thing, the players sometimes respond well to an embarrassment” but this iteration of the squad doesn’t seem to have that fire at all and losing those three games on the bounce finishes the season pretty brutally.
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It’s definitely good time. We have too many CBs injured. Need to get some back after the break.
 
Jam said:
Really can’t decide if this break has come at a good time or a bad time.

Some players getting somewhat of a rest, more coaching time directly with the squad without a game looming, ending on a little bit of a high before the final stretch of the season.

Versus turning the corner, slightly, in the thick of the season and it comes to a halt for a bit and the squad disperses and potentially kills any feel good generated recently.

I’m definitely dreading games less but we could well lose to both Forest and City before the Lyon game. Even in some previous seasons I’d think “losing badly to City before Lyon wouldn’t be the worst thing, the players sometimes respond well to an embarrassment” but this iteration of the squad doesn’t seem to have that fire at all and losing those three games on the bounce finishes the season pretty brutally.
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Probably more of a good thing I think. Maguire, Yoro, Mount, Mainoo, Shaw and even Amad get another few weeks to recover. We've been getting some good results lately but when you look at the bench the squad depth is poor due to injuries. We need players back for the final stretch.
 
Amorim slowly proving I know nothing about football management. Im happy its all coming together for him at long last. Please keep going!!
 
Jam said:
Really can’t decide if this break has come at a good time or a bad time.

Some players getting somewhat of a rest, more coaching time directly with the squad without a game looming, ending on a little bit of a high before the final stretch of the season.

Versus turning the corner, slightly, in the thick of the season and it comes to a halt for a bit and the squad disperses and potentially kills any feel good generated recently.

I’m definitely dreading games less but we could well lose to both Forest and City before the Lyon game. Even in some previous seasons I’d think “losing badly to City before Lyon wouldn’t be the worst thing, the players sometimes respond well to an embarrassment” but this iteration of the squad doesn’t seem to have that fire at all and losing those three games on the bounce finishes the season pretty brutally.
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We need to buy time because many of our first teamers are either injured, not used to the system and or u20s being thrown into the deep end because of the afromentioned two reasons. Its all good. Uefa run needs alot more preparations and luck. We need every break out there.
 
Vindication for those who believed that this team could do better than it was doing and Amo needed to get more out of them. A big egg on faces of all the bozos who performed all kind of mental and statistical gymnastics to prove that those performances and results were this team's level and we can't do anything without getting new players.

Also, it good to see the manager realizing the limitations of the squad and setting us up accordingly.

Let's hope it continues. The next five is the toughest run of games this season (given what's at stake) and we need to do fairly well in those fixtures to feel optimistic about the future and believe we are on the right track.

Onward and upward.
 
Insanity said:
Vindication for those who believed that this team could do better than it was doing and Amo needed to get more out of them. A big egg on faces of all the bozos who performed all kind of mental and statistical gymnastics to prove that those performances and results were this team's level and we can't do anything without getting new players.

Also, it good to see the manager realizing the limitations of the squad and setting us up accordingly.

Let's hope it continues. The next five is the toughest run of games this season (given what's at stake) and we need to do fairly well in those fixtures to feel optimistic about the future and believe we are on the right track.

Onward and upward.
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We played Leicester, steady on.

Not expecting much in the next 3: Forest, Man City, Newcastle, might get lucky against Wolves.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
We played Leicester, steady on.

Not expecting much in the next 3: Forest, Man City, Newcastle, might get lucky against Wolves.
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Every game has been winnable under Amorim. We got 3 draws, twice against Arsenal and once against Liverpool. We have beaten City earlier. So why the negativity?
 
Insanity said:
Vindication for those who believed that this team could do better than it was doing and Amo needed to get more out of them. A big egg on faces of all the bozos who performed all kind of mental and statistical gymnastics to prove that those performances and results were this team's level and we can't do anything without getting new players.

Also, it good to see the manager realizing the limitations of the squad and setting us up accordingly.

Let's hope it continues. The next five is the toughest run of games this season (given what's at stake) and we need to do fairly well in those fixtures to feel optimistic about the future and believe we are on the right track.

Onward and upward.
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Or vindication that Amorim is a great coach and has managed to get this hopeless lot playing above their level through persistence in his system, tactics and squad management. Big egg on the faces of the bozos who blamed him for every bad thing in the past 3 months like our weak players weren't missing 5 yard passes (which they still did numerous times today) or throwing the ball into their own net. Really just a matter of how you want to spin it.
 
Insanity said:
Vindication for those who believed that this team could do better than it was doing and Amo needed to get more out of them. A big egg on faces of all the bozos who performed all kind of mental and statistical gymnastics to prove that those performances and results were this team's level and we can't do anything without getting new players.

Also, it good to see the manager realizing the limitations of the squad and setting us up accordingly.

Let's hope it continues. The next five is the toughest run of games this season (given what's at stake) and we need to do fairly well in those fixtures to feel optimistic about the future and believe we are on the right track.

Onward and upward.
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What's at stake?
 
I don't know if this was discussed already, but did we change the formation when we are playing from the back? The CCB is moving more into the midfield, earlier in the season the 3 CBs were more in the line.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
We played Leicester, steady on.

Not expecting much in the next 3: Forest, Man City, Newcastle, might get lucky against Wolves.
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Leicester are kinda synonymous with false dawn for us this season.

But still, two good performances on the bounce, signs to be hopeful about. If we manage to back that up the next game, the mood might change a bit
 
Happy that things are looking up for him (and for us). He needed to get out of that cycle. The international break now comes at a bad time actually considering our positive momentum
 
RoyH1 said:
Happy that things are looking up for him (and for us). He needed to get out of that cycle. The international break now comes at a bad time actually considering our positive momentum
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It comes at a good time, as players are tired and injuries mounting up. Amorim even said he was pleased the break was coming up in his post match interview.
 
We look more direct and play with better urgency, even though the Fulham game was pretty drab I felt it was more improved relative to the dross early in his reign.

I think the younger players have really shown up, which is great to see. He's using casemiro better too.

In fact there's a lot of players who have had an uptick and the credit should go to the coach on that.
 
Toshey said:
Hellhunter and Licha-vidic are on standby with dozens of posts for the moment something goes wrong.
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Has anything got better?
I know we are hopeful but lets be realistic, Amorim has managed 18 league games, he has 22 points from 18 games.
Will he win even 2 games on the bounce? Next is Forest away. Can we win that? Just so we can win 2 games consecutively and add much needed points to our tally?
Lets not have blind faith, which is what put us in this position in the first place by believing ETH was second coming of Christ.
 
Licha-Vidic said:
Has anything got better?
I know we are hopeful but lets be realistic, Amorim has managed 18 league games, he has 22 points from 18 games.
Will he win even 2 games on the bounce? Next is Forest away. Can we win that? Just so we can win 2 games consecutively and add much needed points to our tally?
Lets not have blind faith, which is what put us in this position in the first place by believing ETH was second coming of Christ.
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I don't see anyone expressing anything close to blind faith after the win. If anything it is cautious optimism, celebrating what seems to be progress, both using the eye-test and metrics. I agree, let's not get carried away, but let us enjoy some respite from the army of doom and gloom (not referring to you).
 
gregor said:
I don't know if this was discussed already, but did we change the formation when we are playing from the back? The CCB is moving more into the midfield, earlier in the season the 3 CBs were more in the line.
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Seen this in the last few games or so and yeah it wasn't there earlier. We should be doing it a lot more and overloading with the extra player.
 
RoyH1 said:
Happy that things are looking up for him (and for us). He needed to get out of that cycle. The international break now comes at a bad time actually considering our positive momentum
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Extra training for most players though to learn the drills without the disruption of matches for a fortnight
 
Danimancer said:
I don't see anyone expressing anything close to blind faith after the win. If anything it is cautious optimism, celebrating what seems to be progress, both using the eye-test and metrics. I agree, let's not get carried away, but let us enjoy some respite from the army of doom and gloom (not referring to you).
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The army of doom and gloom is MANCHESTER UNITED results. I don't play for United, you dont play for United. So if there is negative feedback from the team, its because of the results from Amorim and the team.

Also, because we won, it is because of Amorim brilliance or because of the squad? Because the narrative in here has been we have a relegation level squad :lol: when we lose games.

In the next 3 games, wait you will see people saying we have a relegation squad after losing. Give it time you will see it.
 
RoyH1 said:
Happy that things are looking up for him (and for us). He needed to get out of that cycle. The international break now comes at a bad time actually considering our positive momentum
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I think the international break is needed. Our players look like they have run out of steam, a few of them have played every game for the past few weeks.

It will be a good rest for them, getting players back from injury as well, we have had issues in this department.

Hopefully 2 weeks of rest and training for Mainoo, Mount, Yoro, Maguire, Casemiro.

Hopefully we get some players back as we have some tough fixtures coming up.
 
We were ok last night in fairness, pretty run of the mill comfortable victory against a team in zero form who haven't scored for weeks very much destined to be relegated. But still got the job done, you can only beat what's put in front of you.

Cautious optimism is fine and nice to go into international break with positivity. I'm going to wipe the slate clean for Amorin now. Forget what has happened In the last few months and see how we finish this season, he has had time to get his feet under the table and adjust and the players have had time to learn his system and philosophy. Hopefully the international break gives us time to get a few injured players back and we can finish the season strongly and have some optimism for next season.
 
Like seeing the improvement in recent games, and also him bedding in young players which I think should become a common theme for the rest of season with very little at stake in the league.
 
There's enough atm to be optimistic about our future under RA, let's enjoy the journey, see where he takes us, one love Mufc
 
Long way from what we want to see our team playing but it seems they are understanding Amorims system a lot more… this is the reward for sticking to what he knows and not changing like everyone wanted.
 
Licha-Vidic said:
The army of doom and gloom is MANCHESTER UNITED results. I don't play for United, you dont play for United. So if there is negative feedback from the team, its because of the results from Amorim and the team.

Also, because we won, it is because of Amorim brilliance or because of the squad? Because the narrative in here has been we have a relegation level squad :lol: when we lose games.

In the next 3 games, wait you will see people saying we have a relegation squad after losing. Give it time you will see it.
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I agree, results drive sentiment as does how we got the result. My point is that I don't see anyone elevating yesterday to be due to Amorim's brilliance, that he is god's gift to football, that the squad will win champions league next season etc etc... I might be wrong, but I don't see any of these extreme posts so far. Just cautious optimism that we are seeing progress, which I think is fair enough to state. Which is refreshing from the doom and gloom rant posts, which are emotionally draining to read.
 
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