Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

It could be 3x more (also), thus similar to United's.

He says "I'm taking a risk, I couldn't wait til the end of the season and not have the only club I want - the only club that has moved me - and I've had other suitors and the chairman knows this - I made my choice and I'll take the brunt of it (criticism) - but now I can go home relieved because I've explained it. It was a choice, obviously there's a lot of people saying it's for the money, I'd be earning 3 times more at the last club that tried to pay my exit clause, so they can say whatever they want to say"

contextually, seems pretty clear to me he's saying the last club would be paying more (than United). he even prefaces it by saying it's a big risk
 
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!

Do you think Berrada should have been tougher on him staying for these 3 games?
 
Another club offered him 3 times more the salary? I wonder which club is stupid enough to do that. They must be desperate. Having Berrada in our side starts to pay off
 
I’m surprised that he’s only on a two year deal. Probably makes sense given the cost to terminate long conteracts.
 
Do you think Berrada should have been tougher on him staying for these 3 games?
Not sure what the exact process was. Read a couple of conflicting articles. One says if we paid more we could have gotten him sooner. Another says there is a law in Portugal whereby you need have to a period of waiting time. Ultimately it’s not the end of the world if he comes in 10 days later. I think we pushed him hard on this deal on many things they felt maybe he could have his goodbye and leave on his terms to maintain the relationship with both him and Sporting.
 
The only thing i'm happy about right now is that he comes into a squad that can probably be quite well adapted into a 3-4-3 but he's not beholden to any one player. He doesn't have the Antony price tag on his shoulders as an example. Unfortunately if he believes he needs new players and can't stomach starting a Case, Mainoo, Eriksen etc then we have a long time til the next proper window. I'm at the point already this season that I just want to not be in a relegation battle HAHAHA. That's enough for me.


I don't care whom he plays, but select the damn players that work best in your system and be flexible enough to drop the players that aren't working for someone that might. I don't know what has caused this at MUFC, but every god damn manager has talked about the ruthlessness of SAF, but then gone on to just play out of form dross week in, week out. Every manager has been swallowed by the dressing room or the board room and some fecker has to come in and go "this is what i'm doing, no one is safe in my squad, sack me if it goes wrong".