History. You can see it through every manager that they have to play youth players especially the Golden boy youth player. This is why United are so fkd. We are adamant that our identity is youth players making it to the first team and winning trophies. Class of 99, Busby babes etc. But this philosophy is flawed because this happens very rarely. Dont get me wrong Id fking love another class of 99 action. But that shouldn't be our philosophy. Waiting and forcing it to happen. If a player doesn't fit then he should go. End of. Even if they are star boys from the youth.
I dont think he'll be pressured by the board or something to do so. Maybe with ETH was all about him thinking he'll make it work. Hopefully Amorim wont force it and he doesnt strike me as someone who'll play out of form players just to prove something.
No, I dont think he means that.
I think he meant we need to be more fluid in the way we play throughout a match, because he mentioned something along the lines of "we defended in a 442 during the Ipswich match". So he probably meant we can start in a 343 and change to other formations throughout the match when needed.
Yea that's what I thought. I was just wondering why he said it if we were already doing it?
Yea i did a bit. These lot can drive any manager up the wall, but I trust this guy more than any of them post SAF
Not necessarily youth players. I remember when LvG insisted on playing Rooney no matter what and he had to come out and defend his team selections to the media. Think it was the 14/15 season when the wheels started to come off for Rooney and he put in 3/10 performances most weeks but still started almost every game.
Totally agree, he said many times right structure and players understanding is the key and they can change formations according to the needs.
I agree we should expect to see Amorims influence a lot faster than some of our earlier managers accomplished, if they did at all. However, we need to remember that he has taken over mid-season and has a lot less time on the training ground to implement this stuff. I like that he says that he will go for his style and not compromise, and that it might be painful in the short term but a lot better in a year than if he would've compromised. EtH compromised after two games, which worked for a while, but made it a lot harder to go back.
Other managers got a style in 3 months because their players are willing to play that way. Amorim is already seeing how some players in the squad dont want it enough (rashford comment). Then you have players like Bruno who publicly says that he won’t change his style. Then you have perennially injured players like Shaw and Lindelof, players who can never maintain concentration (Dalot) and washed players in Evans, Casemiro and Eriksen (harsh on these because they give their all but dont have legs anymore)
What I mean is that he will stick by the basic principles but he will tweak it to suit his players for a result. Something Ten Hag was incapable of doing.
Whatchu mean?
someone somewhere said something
He left out Garnacho and Antony, bdcause they aren’t strikers. I wouldn’t read anything into it.
Agreed.
This. Add to that the expected improvement of the team spirit due to Amorim’s man management and you have a promising and more solid foundation to build on. He needs time, but you could already see changes for the better, and I expect us to become much better structured, hard working and entertaining to watch during the next month or two. We might not finish higher than mid table this season, but hopefully we can all see vast improvements in performances come summer and start the next season full of optimism and believe after a few upgrades in the transfer window.
He is right about Rashford.
He could adapt to one of the ten positions.
#10 presses a lot more in the Amorim system and is more involved in link up play. Rashford can’t do either.
A tweak in tactics could allow Rashford to play in one of the 10 positions. Try him as a left inside forward and have the striker play a false nine role.
He's not the only one. If we're being honest Garnacho could also be a casualty in this system, but at least in his case he's still young enough to adapt to one of the two no.10 roles or even wingback if he's willing.
You can't coach Garnacho to have the traits required to be a good number 10. He doesn't have the technical faculties in order to do so.
