Amorim's Mourinho problem

fastwalker said:
Amorim's recent comment about the current United team being the "worst team in Man United in history" and the earlier one, prior to the Liverpool game, suggesting that "we are starving for leaders" are right out of the Jose Mourinho playbook.



I think what we are seeing is a manager with quite a fragile ego. Like every other United fan, I want Amorim to succeed, but the parallels with Jose are starting to unsettle me.
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You got the quote wrong

“We are being the worst team, maybe, in the history of Manchester United.”
/closethread


He’s talking about the form and losing 7/10.

He said we, he didn’t say this team is the worst in United history.

Before you start a thread you should atleast find the actual quote
 
Vidyoyo said:
This is silly. He said, "We're the worst team in Man United history, maybe." That last part is crucial but omitted from most people's replies about the situation.
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he didn’t even say that - “We are being the worst team, maybe, in the history of Manchester United.”

Saying we are being that means we are acting like that, not that we are that.
 
One of Mourinho's greatest skills as a manager is the way he protects his players. When Mourinho made an ass of himself in a press conference with a crazy comment it's always because he's players did something in the game and he is taking the attention away from them and putting it on himself, because he can more than handle it. It's kind of amazing that someone can read that so wrong, it's Mourinho 101.

Mourinho wasn't throwing players under the bus, he was calling them out. Turns out he was pretty much right about every player he "threw under the bus". How much better shape would we be in right now if they had backed Mourinho, got rid of Shaw, Pogba, Rashford and removed that toxicity from the dressing before it became so ingrained in the club it almost seems impossible to remove now?
 
Mental take. Such different characters it's hard to quantify
 
Amorim might well be gone soon. He has both severely underestimated the challenge while also overestimating the greatness of his system. And if there is one thing a manager shall never do, it is to side with the fans - the fans are the mob. He has said what many fans (who are living through him I.E idolising him) have wanted to hear in their pent-up anger. The manager shall always be for the players.

Remember. Football is relative. It has no grand purpose. Amorim might indeed bring success but as it stands, it seems he is struggling with the reality of the job.
 
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