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I'm at the point where I think it was a mistake to hire Amorim. He is so wedded to a particular system, and our current squad is so unsuited to it, that we're going to have to take several steps back before we begin to move forward. Everyone wants to see the dead wood moved on from the squad, but Amorim is thinking of selling the few bright sparks, like Garnacho. I've no doubt Amorim is a good manager, but it will take such massive surgery to the squad to make his system work that we should have chosen someone else. It's an indictment of Wilcox and the directors that they didn't foresee this.
A team of Onana; Mazraoui, Yoro, De Ligt, Dalot; Ugarte, Mainoo; Mount, Bruno, Garnacho; Hojlund is good enough for top 4, in my opinion, with the right manager. We should have found that manager and built on the squad we have instead of appointing an ideologue who can only do things one way and needs to rip everything up. The frustration is we're not even at square one yet. We need to take several steps back towards square one before starting to move forward again.
By the time we have a squad that can play Amorim's system, what's to say that system will still work? Football is evolving all the time. I can't think of a truly great manager who was inflexible about systems. We've appointed an interesting manager who's a bad fit for the club.
I can only see two likely scenarios: he takes three years or so to build the squad he wants, but eventually delivers success; or he spends a couple of years chopping and changing the squad, but never has a team he's really happy with, and he leaves without having had any success, and leaves us with a worse squad than he inherited. The second scenario is more likely, it seems to me.
A team of Onana; Mazraoui, Yoro, De Ligt, Dalot; Ugarte, Mainoo; Mount, Bruno, Garnacho; Hojlund is good enough for top 4, in my opinion, with the right manager. We should have found that manager and built on the squad we have instead of appointing an ideologue who can only do things one way and needs to rip everything up. The frustration is we're not even at square one yet. We need to take several steps back towards square one before starting to move forward again.
By the time we have a squad that can play Amorim's system, what's to say that system will still work? Football is evolving all the time. I can't think of a truly great manager who was inflexible about systems. We've appointed an interesting manager who's a bad fit for the club.
I can only see two likely scenarios: he takes three years or so to build the squad he wants, but eventually delivers success; or he spends a couple of years chopping and changing the squad, but never has a team he's really happy with, and he leaves without having had any success, and leaves us with a worse squad than he inherited. The second scenario is more likely, it seems to me.