I'll stick my head above the parapet and prepare myself for the inevitable abuse but I would sack Amorim and I would do it now. The alarm bells are, at this point, deafening already and I just don't see anything within Amorim's United to suggest that he is the answer or has any positives that make him in any way appropriate to continue as Manchester United manager for any longer than necessary.
I'll start by saying a couple of things. Firstly, Ratcliffe and INEOS and the Glazers are two cheeks of the same backside and both need to go. We don't need to go on about the Glazers but their clever move to have Ratcliffe and INEOS as the face of things keeps some of the flak off them and it was a superb move on their part. Ratcliffe is a penny pinching parasite that appears to be sucking the life out of the place to satisfy his spreadsheets and, frankly, he's showing himself to be a pretty unpleasant and unlikeable character in doing so yet also showing himself and INEOS to be clowns. Secondly, yes, this is a poor United squad, many are unlikeable and many shouldn't be at the club and hopefully many move on or are moved on in the summer, though I do wonder who would look at almost all contracted players and want to a) pay a transfer fee for them that sees United recoup some/all of our initial outlay or b) pay these players what we've been paying them on a weekly basis, it's how and why we've had an extra couple of years of Harry Maguire, who turned down West Ham to continue at United on the extortionate wages we've paid him.
But I don't want to digress too much and back to my point, I'd sack Amorim. Simply, he's one dimensional, he has no plan b, his plan a looks awful, there's no signs of improvement and therefore little to hold on to, there's almost no attempt at winning games, the results have been awful and his post match comments get more and more bizarre with every passing game.
The 343 isn't working, the players don't suit it and therefore the results and manner of the results is awful. Let's indulge the "yeah, but he doesn't have the players to suit his formation" crowd. He doesn't, that much is true. The performances and results have added to what we already know. So, why are we persisting with this? It's not working and the results are poor, why are we doubling down again and again on a formation that isn't working? Is it stubbornness? And now lets play a hypothetical game of FIFA. Let's say that one or two leave in January and six or seven more of this team are going in the summer, I won't name names because I would personally be happy to see all bar three leave, why are we persisting with a formation that isn't working when many of this current crop aren't even going to be here come the start of the 2025/26 season? It comes across as lunacy to me. There were, early on, small signs of improvement with the formation, that has fell off a cliff and with each passing game we are regressing to the point where it now looks like career suicide sending out teams with no intention of winning the game, like last night. It wasn't even a Jose Mourinho type getting everyone behind the ball and grinding out results, it was essentially just sending the players, many unsuitable for the roles and formation, out in the hope that something magically clicked. It's borderline career suicide, as though he's tossed it already and is just now waiting for the inevitable P45 and suitcases full of cash. There's no attempt at winning games under Amorim, it's all about the formation, at all costs, and results are meaningless to him, which is crazy because results, confidence and morale go hand-in-hand and if anything, his kamikaze attempts at football management are sapping confidence and morale as much as Ratcliffe's relentless cutting of cash and relationships.
There isn't a plan b and you can mention that he doesn't have the players but given that there is no attempt at any point during his tenure, so far, at a plan b or doing something different when we've inevitably been behind, I can't grasp on to the hope that if he gets three of his mates over from his former club (I've heard this one before) that he's suddenly going to have a plan b that he's been keeping to himself ready to unleash on the Premier League. The Zirkzee hooking last night was, simply, damage limitation to ensure it ended at two and not six, which was a distinct possibility. I think, at this stage, it's wishful thinking to think that this improves based solely on some random signings from Sporting. I've never seen a manager or coach so dialled into one formation with the incredible arrogance and stubbornness not to change or do something different to attempt to win a game of football.
I'd put it down as a bad idea, move him on, it's not worked and go again. The problem is it's going to make the City clique look incompetent and I can't see them taking it on the chin and facing the backlash.
