Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

Onana < Henderson
Mazraoui < Munoz
Martinez < Guehi
Maguire > Lacroix
Yoro = Richards
Dalot < Mitchell
Ugarte = Lerma
Bruno > Hughes
Garnacho > Kamada
Amad > Sarr
Mainoo < Mateta

4 v 5 Palace + 2 ties.

Then they brought Eze on who would easily be one of our best players.

Mid table players = mid table results.
That just goes to show the importance of being organized as a team.
 
We had seventeen shots and many, many touches in the opponents box. The system is not the issue.

The system is very much the issue, we are conceeding goals due the backline being too far forward and not having the pace to get back quickly enough to stop goals being scored for quick counters plus we create very little and managed only 2 shots on target today.
 
The system is very much the issue, we are conceeding goals due the backline being too far forward and not having the pace to get back quickly enough to stop goals being scored for quick counters plus we create very little and managed only 2 shots on target today.
Players missing the target is not related to the system.
 
Change what? The principles or players? We all moaned when ETH changed his principles for something different. I bet he didn’t have the right type of players when he took over sporting… who I may add now have a manager that’s playing a back 4 and there losing games as he doesn’t have the right players.


He switched back to his original plan when Sabitzer was brought in and went to his 4-1-4-1 formation. What killed him was his total inability to go away from that, had about 50-60 games in a row of the midfield being destroyed trying to cover impossible spaces. That changed at the Arsenal home game last year when he finally tried to get numbers into the midfield and Utd brought that into the cup final.

His principles didn't work in England, and there is no virtue in being incapable of adapting.

Amorin will have to adapt until he gets the players he wants or he won't be here long enough to get them.
 
Maguire wasn't first choice for three seasons under ETH and I'm sure Rangnick dropped him too.
Which is fine. My point , it's the new group of players. We can't keep saying it's the players . Amorim has been appalling and he is sticking with his defensive weird formation without having the right players. Either change yourself or you will be changed.
 
The squad isn't good enough, and the manager aren't doing good enough. Doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.
 
The first manager was playing with a team he created for the most part, Amorim isn't.

He has been bought in to clear out the squad and build a new team, let him bloody do it.

Pretty sure we said exactly the same thing when we employed:

LVG
Mou
Ole
ETH

But hey, it’ll DEFINITELY be different this time, despite him starting much shitter than all the rest.

How’s about we stop this “manager” will fix everything experiment? It’s daft and expensive.
Buy players for the club, not a specific manager.
 
Anyone bashing Amorim needs to have a word with themselves. He’s got his hands tied behind his back. No striker, I really wanted Hojilund to work but him and Zirkzee just aren’t. We are PSR sling and the squad just isn’t good enough. No idea how ANY manager turns this around. I hope Amorim gets the time his cv deserves.

So why have we decided to change to a new formation that will probably require more investment than we would have needed otherwise?
 
The first manager was playing with a team he created for the most part, Amorim isn't.

He has been bought in to clear out the squad and build a new team, let him bloody do it.
That's not going to happen though. Once again, we are broke.
 
This guy is Grade A shite. Should've stuck with Ten Hag. Stubborn and totally clueless.

If you've not got the players, play a different system.
 
This is yet another example of how piss poor we’re run at the very top as we should have people above the head coach deciding on how we set up tactically, a United identity, scouting players to fit that set up and a recruitment team to bring in those players.

Instead what we have is a group of players that played 4-2-3-1 under Ole, a clusterfeck and gegenpress under Rangnick, 4-1-4-1 under ETH and now 3-4-2-1 under Amorim and each time it’s a rebuild so the manager has the players to fit his system so the players before are just deadwood and a bad fit for the incoming manager.

From what I’ve seen Amorim’s man management and demands are top notch and he doesn’t accept players giving less than 100% but no one can convince me that 3-4-2-1 is what was decided at the very top as our set up and identity and its yet another feck up from Ineos in bringing in a manager who they knew was married to a formation and that we didn’t have the money to give him what he needs.

Ineos fecked up in keeping ETH then spending £180 million then getting rid of ETH a couple of months into the season then telling Amorim he either joins now or never even though they didn’t have the money to bring players in to fit what he wants, I feel sorry for Amorim as we’re such a fecking shambles and whilst Ineos may have done well in bringing the wage bill down and cutting costs they’re no better than the fecking parasites in what we do on the pitch with their decision making.
 
The first manager was playing with a team he created for the most part, Amorim isn't.

He has been bought in to clear out the squad and build a new team, let him bloody do it.
he absolutely has NOT been brought in to do that. his job is to coach the team. we are supposed to have these expensive executives to build the team. why in the name of god would amorim be qualified to do that?
 
Face it we knew we were going to handicap him when we foolishly let ETH keep his job and make summer transfers.

If we had a time machine we’d go back to mid June, hand ETH a P45, hire him and then buy some suitable players. We’d be probably hovering around the European places while being inconsistent in the league.

We badly needed a left wing back and a striker of some form. We’ve got him Dorgu and hopefully Tel will join up soon. No idea if Tel will be good but it sure beats Hojlund and Zirkzee out there at the moment.
And then kill Hitler, right?
 
Which is fine. My point , it's the new group of players. We can't keep saying it's the players . Amorim has been appalling and he is sticking with his defensive weird formation without having the right players. Either change yourself or you will be changed.
I agree with you, I was pointing out Maguire may have been in our squads but not a consistent starter. We still won trophies with those three, and, we perflrm no bettwr without Rashford than with.
 
Not good enough so far. I've said it a few times but I'm yet to convinced by the system. We are barely creating anything and at the same time conceding 2-3 goals very regularly.

Unless Hojlund and Zirkzee were both ill I don't see a point in benching them both. 5 defenders, a defensive mid and two other mids at home seems just too negative. Other teams constantly have 4 or 5 players in the opposition box which creates more opportunities for their players while we only have 1 lone striker in the box and expecting them to do everything with 4 defenders around them.

And no, we arent as bad as we are currently showing. We have become worse than we were under ETH. Same complain as before, not a single player looks to be benefiting from this system.
 
Fair enough my bad
Hey , I have nothing against this guy and want him to succeed . But he isn't going to get 3 or 4 windows to get his team. You have to adapt. We are losing home games at an alarming rate. If he doesn't change, he won't make it to March.
 
This guy is Grade A shite. Should've stuck with Ten Hag. Stubborn and totally clueless.

If you've not got the players, play a different system.
Overreaction much? We still wouldn't get top 4. Let him get the players he needs, then judge. Want to blame anyone, then blame Ineos.
 
Myself, like many others, am not under the illusion that our squad is something to write home about, but ask yourselves, would that bald cnut Slut have us in a better position than Amorim is? As much as it pains me to admit it, he would.
 
We should be doing better but we were never going to finish in the Champions League places this season. This is a really poor squad who simply can’t compete physically.

We’ve got Shaw and Mount who are crocks, Casemiro and Eriksen whose legs have gone. Rashford and Antony we are so desperate to get rid of we’re loaning them out and 2 strikers who are arguably worse than any starters in the league. Throw in that Mainoo, Garnacho and Yoro all very young and it’s just not a very good squad.

We should be better than this but we are a mid table team at best at this moment in time.
We were not far off top 4, and if we had a manager who could get results we could be in there. Our run was easy, city collapsed completely. Instead, we had an even WORSE collapse because Amorrim wanted to put square pegs in round holes.
 
He's had a shocker today

While none of its great, he's had long enough now to see what works and what dosnt, seems to have went out of his way today to go with what dosnt.
 
The squad isn't good enough, and the manager aren't doing good enough. Doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.
Exactly, it doesn’t have to be one or the other, they are both underperforming. We know the players who we need to replace but does Amorim have it in him to get them performing to a better level.

We can say we expect to ‘suffer’ but they’ve all had enough training sessions to be getting better. We still don’t look any closer to being a team.