Very interesting.
Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
Very interesting.
He's only talking about United in the 11th of November. Disappointing for you guys. You will have to wait.
Bruh? She asked a question in English and you answered in Portuguese.
That was strange. But I understand his answer. While he's still managing Sporting, he won't talk about United in detail.
Fair play to him for wanting to finish his last season at sporting but we kind of cornered him. It was either now or miss out the opportunity of a lifetime.
The 2 clubs were Liverpool and West Ham right?
West Ham wont have been able to make him a huge offer so it must be Liverpool that offered him 3 times more.
He says he isn't getting any Sporting player in January and that Gyokeres is too expensive
A reporter asked him but he didn't want to tell which clubs
Don’t players in your league usually have release clauses?
Both them clubs will say they rejected him rather than the other way round.
Surely it's City if they're offering 3 times what we're paying him.
Yes
Doesn’t mean he isn’t expensive.
yes. Gyokeres has a clause over €100m, I believe.
True. But a lot of release clauses aren’t and are put in place to make the player join them and so they don’t get priced out of a bigger move if you like.
He ain’t going anywhere then.
Can leave supposedly for 60-70 million euros.
He will go next year. I think he made an agreement with Amorim and our President to stay one more year to play in the CL and try to win the league and Sporting will let him go bellow the clause next season.
I just looked them up and they are also in Lisbon. How many clubs are in Lisbon? Also they have a capacity of less than 3,000.
According to City he was never on their list and they are still waiting for Peps decision on whether he is staying anyway
It looks like he really really wanted us. We didn’t agree to him coming to us at season end. Giving him an ultimatum - now or never. We didn’t agree to pay him as much as other clubs. We didn’t agree to give him a long term contract either. Damn real hardball negotiations by Omar!
Funny how they’ve reported that now he’s joined us yet prior to us being interested in Amorim he was number 1 for city and even the bookies favourite to replace pep
He knew he wouldn’t have to wait to long for our job the way ETH was going. He did hope that we’d have an interim until the end of the season though and then Amorim could have finished his season there.
The curse continues
Press conference over. The juicy United details only in the 11th. He gave a couple of interesting answers with saying that he asked to join United in the end of the season during three days but United said no. Interesting that he isn't taking any Sporting players in January. Probably doesn't want to further derail our season. But he just said January. Didn't mention next year.
Who else could pay three times more than we are? Because it's not Liverpool and West Ham.
3x more?! Hmmm
I mean it seems obvious to me that it was some Saudi club.
West Ham probably tried to get him last season, but I believe Ruben Amorim only took that interview to try to force Liverpool to hire him, but they went with Arne Slot.
I'm 100% sure he'd be Liverpool's coach this season if Liverpool would have chosen him. They didn't, so he isn't.
The cheats, who else?
This.
Yeah it looks like we are paying him €6-6.5m per season which means only Saudi is crazy enough to offer him €18m a year.