It's just Groundhog Day, isn't it? United play a game, we play 343 even though we don't have the players to play in such a system, we concede, we don't look like scoring, we don't score, we're comfortably beaten, "yeah but he needs time" is repeated and then United play a few days later and the same cycle begins again. It's not working, that much is simple. Yes, I fully agree that this current crop of Manchester United players, to a man, have to be the most unlikeable, least talented and thoroughly disgraceful group of players we've had, however, they're also not the one's selecting themselves in positions that don't suit inside of formations that don't suit and with tactics that don't suit and yes, I also agree that these players also didn't suit anything that Erik Ten Hag was apparently doing during his tenure.
I just think it's borderline suicidal from Amorim to be doing this. What on earth is the plan? Does he genuinely think that Diego Dalot or Noussair Mazrouai are suddenly going to wake up one day and be competent wingbacks, that Joshua Zirzkzee will suddenly become prime Ruud van Nistelrooy or that Rasmus Hojlund is going to turn up to Carrington one day and he's suddenly going to have developed a first touch? The thing is, there is no signs of development or signs of improvement in this tactic or style that is preferred by Amorim. The results to boot are, frankly, abysmal and the way this is going, a relegation scrap is genuinely a threat given whatever it is that Amorim is doing. Is it stubbornness? Ignorance? Arrogance because it worked at Sporting? Sheer incompetence? I just don't know.
What I do know is that we need to see improvements against Liverpool and Arsenal. We're not winning either but I think we, as fans, and Amorim, for his own sake, needs to see change and improvement otherwise, for me, he can go.
