Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

Silverman said:
I'm fully behind him. None of this faux positive bulls**t. He was visibly fuming after the game and you can tell he's simply not going to put up with any shite.
Just wish we made the change after the FA Cup final so he had a proper pre season and was able to get players that will actually work hard.
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Same mate. He is the right man. Should have been given the job in the summer.

It will be a project though as some of our players are currently way off the standards required. Their fitness, their hunger, their passing and their willingness to fight for the ball is probably the worst in the league. We only get by because we can produce moments in game as our players can show moments.

The team is pretty shit. Had it not been, then Ten Hag would still be in a job. It will take time and probably a cull of some big names.
 
While I was expecting us to beat Ipswich today, and was disappointed with how much of the ball they had in that first half, I'm sort of glad Ruben got to see a lot of these players at or near their worst. This is a monumental job where he'll have to just live and hopefully learn. The problem with our previous guy was that he simply didn't learn.
 
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I like how he insists on doing it his way. If it takes time so be it. I honestly think we have the players for it.

A manager sticking to his way is never the problem, it's sticking with the wrong players that makes them fail. He looks like someone who's happy to experiment until it works, and this will help us massively making the right decisions in the summer.
 
Von Mistelroum said:
He does seem to be learning about the players quickly and being more decisive than other managers.

I do have a slight concern that he looked at this lot and decided to start our slowest and most lethargic players in midfield though.
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The reality is he didn't have anyone else he could have selected. Ugarte travelled back late and was obviously not deemed ready to start and mainoo has been injured. They were the only 2 fit. That's an indictment on the previous regime and the poor recruitment that casemiro and eriksen are our only options, not on amorim for being forced into doing it.
 
Red00012 said:
He literally just walked over not much sky could do about it. Bit of a dick move to be honest. He knew exactly what he was doing
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They could do with showing a bit of respect.

Look at their caption here. If I was Amorim I would tell them I'm only doing the traditional pre/post match interviews from now on. He would be well within his rights to say that. A manager isn't technically required to do those pitch side interviews.

 
sglowrider said:
I wonder if the respective players will feel that they are being singled out here?

He Did say that he wasn't the type to throw his players under the bus just a couple of days earlier.
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Is this throwing under the bus? If it is, must be world smallest toy bus. On the other hand we know how fragile our lot's feelings are.
 
kolli said:
He said that Evans should have pushed up to press in midfield a lot more.
That Bruno was better when he dropped deeper but that he is always looking for the long ball from there & we can‘t always play long balls.
And that Zirkzee was supposed to push up to be a second number 9 but didn‘t
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sglowrider said:
I wonder if the respective players will feel that they are being singled out here?

He Did say that he wasn't the type to throw his players under the bus just a couple of days earlier.
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He figured out Bruno in 1 game.
 
pocco said:
I honestly can’t understand what Ten Hag has been doing the last 2 years. Fitness shocking, first touch of most players has been shocking, passing is shocking. And this is a team largely signed by him. He’s really damaged this team, posters saying he left it better than he found it are having a laugh.

I do think there’s ability to be better there, mainly in players already here or promoted from the youth team etc. But he’s left a team with no confidence and absolutely nothing going for it. He’s catastrophically failed to develop players in the slightest. If anything, he’s made them worse by promoting really bad habits through poor football.
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ETH lacked balls I reckon. One game in under Amorim and he has pointed out players that caused us not being able to control the match. I dont think he will put up with it for 2 months let alone 2 years. For me the obvious solution is to give players chances but once they run out of it, they need to be sold or demoted to the bench while we get better profiles in. Ten Hag was brave enough to let go of players that were obviously problematic to his dressing room. But not ones who were problematic to his system. Then he adjusted his system to fit in the players instead which meant back to Ole ball and without the motivation.... Ole was a great motivator and had proper connection with the players at least.
 
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I like how direct & forthright he is when answering the questions from the press... for now until he gets jaded and robotic/incipid about the answers. Always very listenable interviews, unlike Mr Heh.
 
Everything he says just makes complete sense. The performance wasn’t great today and I didn’t expect it to be, but I have full confidence in him right now because he already sees the issues, he understands all the pitfalls of introducing a new system mid season etc. If he recognises it then we know he’s working on fixing it. So by that logic, he will either get these players doing what he needs or he will get players that can do that.

This was one of my issues with Ten Hag and his reluctance to see issues or try to incorporate his style. It never felt like we were building towards something. I’m looking forward to seeing the end results of it, and hopefully we can pick up points whilst we slowly work through these teething issues.
 
pocco said:
Everything he says just makes complete sense. The performance wasn’t great today and I didn’t expect it to be, but I have full confidence in him right now because he already sees the issues, he understands all the pitfalls of introducing a new system mid season etc. If he recognises it then we know he’s working on fixing it. So by that logic, he will either get these players doing what he needs or he will get players that can do that.

This was one of my issues with Ten Hag and his reluctance to see issues or try to incorporate his style. It never felt like we were building towards something. I’m looking forward to seeing the end results of it, and hopefully we can pick up points whilst we slowly work through these teething issues.
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The issue will be, if the team continue to be poor and results don't come, will he compromise some of his beliefs in the hope that results improve?

I think Ten Hag did the same at times. I bet Ten Hag has a lot of regrets about not sticking to his principles.
 
Tom Van Persie said:
They could do with showing a bit of respect.

Look at their caption here. If I was Amorim I would tell them I'm only doing the traditional pre/post match interviews from now on. He would be well within his rights to say that. A manager isn't technically required to do those pitch side interviews.

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I'd have just walked off as soon as thry started entertaining that gowl. I'm sure Roy would have respected that move.
 
Knew we would get some comments on social media saying that Ruud should have stayed on until summer
 
The team he started was abysmal and slow. I am all behind the manager and I hope he continues down this road, get some intense and technical players we will be cooking again. Amad needs to be a forward, Shaw if fit or Garnacho can take left wing back for now.

Yoro - De ligt - Martinez/Shaw
Maz - Ugarte - Bruno - Garnacho
Amad - Hoijlund - Mount

This will be my ideal team for this formation and could be 2/3 weeks away
 
I think this result and how the team played will be more beneficial in the long run to RA, rather than scraping 1-0 and papering over the cracks. We are a million miles from being a team that can challenge top 4 at the moment and need to concentrate on getting a settled good side, without trying to appease the £300k a week players.
If we had have won, RA might have been tempted to play the same 10/11 players next game. This result and performance will give him plenty food for thought.
 
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