Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

What rubbish is this. When has rashford ever hit 20 goals in the league under any manager. Amad is still developing and Zirkzee so far doesn't even look like a footballer.
Id be impressed if Zirkzee scores 1 more goal before he retires. Honestly.
 
I could see us in a proper relegation battle next season. We wouldn’t get relegated but we’ll be genuinely fighting for premier league status.

I don’t know who to blame for this apart from the Glazers! This manager will fail because we have no funds to revamp this squad to fit his vision. We’re the most predictable club in the league both on and off the pitch.
 
Zirkzee, Anthony and Hojlund are the worst players I've ever seen play for Manchester United. Honestly Bebe and Chadwick were on a different planet.
 
I could see us in a proper relegation battle next season. We wouldn’t get relegated but we’ll be genuinely fighting for premier league status.

I don’t know who to blame for this apart from the Glazers! This manager will fail because we have no funds to revamp this squad to fit his vision. We’re the most predictable club in the league both on and off the pitch.
Yeah. We kind of need a manager that has more than one quality. The ability to speak well. He's been shit so far, apart from talking, he's good at talking.
 
Amorim's Sporting fed one guy the ball all the time and look at his goal stats. He didn't play a striker, because we don't have a striker and how else does he get his point across to the club other than benching the ones not performing?
 
The question must once again be asked, is this manager worth investing another fortune in? We have shown no improvement whatsoever since he got here, just the odd game where a bit of individual magic got us through.
If he was playing a more common formation maybe, because you could say if he turns out to be crap the next manager can use them, but not for players that will be dead wood if we go to 433 4231, he just hasn’t shown us that this the way to go.
 
Id be impressed if Zirkzee scores 1 more goal before he retires. Honestly.
I mean saying our attack will score 60 goals. I was like which United fan will smoke such crap but then I realized it was as arsenal fan and it made sense. Arsenal fan and talking sense never go together
 
I hope they are looking at playing 343 with the next manager too, because it looks like we are going to tear this squad to pieces for this system for a manager that will most likely be sacked early next season. To carry such a lack of attack in every single game is without doubt signs of a poor appointment. Wrong ti me to change system and we are in a relegation fight. Not sure what the club wee thinking but RA needs to be bolder otherwise the crowd will be on his back soon. Our inability to score is pissing very single fan off.
Dude this team needs to be torn to shreds - what the feck do you guys think, this squad is actually good? :lol:
 
Funny how things become clearer when we fail. Why weren’t they clearer before? I mean we decided to throw out bets on a young manager who led a Sporting team to the title in Portugal. One who had no previous experience in the top 3 leagues. It isn’t Amorim’s fault. It’s the board. We have the history of throwing the dice on big decisions and hoping it sticks
 
I could see us in a proper relegation battle next season. We wouldn’t get relegated but we’ll be genuinely fighting for premier league status.

I don’t know who to blame for this apart from the Glazers! This manager will fail because we have no funds to revamp this squad to fit his vision. We’re the most predictable club in the league both on and off the pitch.

Yeah I do fear such a lack of funds due to dreadful recruitment and the crippling debt will be his downfall
 
We have a broken squad. Its acceptable by all.
We cant win the league.
We cant win the ucl.

But we can and should win 23 games in the league with it.

13 home games..all homes games bar against top 6.
10 away games. All bottom half of the table away games.

Then try and conjure 6-7 draws. Lose another 8 games.

With this analogy, we should be 73 points team. Which i believe is attainable with this squad. The squad can go to Anfield and get a result, then a manager should be able to set-up the team to get a result against Palace at OT.
Can you find one team in Europe that has won all of their home games against non top six teams and all of their away games against bottom half teams?

There is a probability to winning/drawing/losing any given football game and the consistency you are expecting in your calculations is seen only in title-winning sides. And even they are unlikely to win all away games against bottom half. You are vastly unserestimating how difficult it is to win games.
 
I’m not judging him fully this season let him have a pre season a summer of transfers and only then can I judge him. I see potential in his system but we haven’t got the players for it yet and we only got Ugarte who is a real midfielder the rest (Kobbie & Bruno) are inbetweeners and no striker nor do we have a 10 on the left wing that fits the mould of the system. Wingbacks are an issue aswell.
 
Its difficult to make sense of the team at the moment. We seem to have problems everywhere from attack to MF to Defense to GK. Dorgu will actually be an interesting case study to see if an Amorim signing improves us.
 
Its difficult to make sense of the team at the moment. We seem to have problems everywhere from attack to MF to Defense to GK. Dorgu will actually be an interesting case study to see if an Amorim signing improves us.

It's all connected, if we attack better we concede less since teams get penned back.

Wing backs pin the opposition full backs to defend. It gets a team to drop back.

I think our midfield and defense is ok, issue is the front players do little to create then the strikers are shit. Being toothless doesn't help us.

We got defenders in this summer, now we have a wingback, we need another then some forward options. It's a slow process.
 
It's all connected, if we attack better we concede less since teams get penned back.

Wing backs pin the opposition full backs to defend. It gets a team to drop back.

I think our midfield and defense is ok, issue is the front players do little to create then the strikers are shit. Being toothless doesn't help us.

We got defenders in this summer, now we have a wingback, we need another then some forward options. It's a slow process.

I hate to be the doom and gloom person but I am getting less and less convinced by our defense. They seem allright on paper but lack pace which is why I think they dont "jump" as often to put pressure on opposition, something which I believe is important in the Amorim system. Excluding Licha and to a lesser extent Maguire, they also seem to lack ball playing skills which I think makes progression very difficult.
 
whole team is weak. we are rightly in lower mid table as we are really bad.

GK: Onana is good at his feet. but not commanding in box and is not really a good shot-stopper. (need someone more stable. i rather heaton to be honest)

CB: Maguire is slow as heck, cant backpedal quick enough for Amorim's system. His reading is also poor, cant intercept true balls. his jitters spread to rest of team (just like Onana). i think maguire is good for teams that play with a low block like everton, leicester, palace. but a very bad fit for ours. I'd rather trust De Light and Evans for my CCB.

LCB: martinez has courage but lacks aerial ability. part of reason why we concede so many setpieces. Maybe play Shaw who is better in air.

RCB: Yoro needs at least 1 year to settle down. just like arsenal's french CB. he should be learning from others, but now is called on to solve other defender's woes and shortcoming

LWB: Dalot just looks angry and runs like a headless chicken. play Dorgu.

RWB: I think Mazroui is okay there.

DM: Ugarte looks nervy at times and can be physically bullied by others. Not sure why we didnt go in for Amadou Onana, Leicester's Belgian CM or Tielmans.

DM: Casemiro has match intellence but lacks legs. Still I think he should feature more in our matches. he's better there than Mainoo and at least scores setpieces and defends them well.

AM: garnacho is lost in this system. Play Bruno here closer to the attack as he scores and creates goals.

SK: Both our forwards are shot in confidence. Play our 63 year old goalkeeping coach or play Chido-Martins or somebody from the youth-team. anybody.

only player coming out with some credibility this season is amad and bruno. others just suck big time.
 
We played with no recognised striker and Bruno was dropping to defence to play the ball out as though he was instructed to do so. Of course we would have no teeth in attack. Really concerned with Ruben's thinking here.
 
If he was playing a more common formation maybe, because you could say if he turns out to be crap the next manager can use them, but not for players that will be dead wood if we go to 433 4231, he just hasn’t shown us that this the way to go.
I honestly don’t but this idea that players who are good in one system will be deadwood in another. The problem is that we have shit players, no matter the system. If we get a player like Gyokeres for Amorim, I don’t think any prospective manager will resent inheriting such a player
 
Funny how things become clearer when we fail. Why weren’t they clearer before? I mean we decided to throw out bets on a young manager who led a Sporting team to the title in Portugal. One who had no previous experience in the top 3 leagues. It isn’t Amorim’s fault. It’s the board. We have the history of throwing the dice on big decisions and hoping it sticks

Yeah we have rolled that dice many times in the last 12 years and landed on snake eyes the majority of it
 
We have a broken squad. Its acceptable by all.
We cant win the league.
We cant win the ucl.

But we can and should win 23 games in the league with it.

13 home games..all homes games bar against top 6.
10 away games. All bottom half of the table away games.

Then try and conjure 6-7 draws. Lose another 8 games.

With this analogy, we should be 73 points team. Which i believe is attainable with this squad. The squad can go to Anfield and get a result, then a manager should be able to set-up the team to get a result against Palace at OT.
Do you have any idea how football works? It’s all about consistency and only 1 team in the league as had that so far which is why there top. But going of your point they should have beaten forest at home and they didn’t. You can’t just say we should be beating every team at home and the bottom teams away from home. Anything can happen in football. You can get dodgy decisions that go against you and cost you games. You can get injuries that affects your team and balance. City should be winning every single game with the squad they have but guess what, they haven’t. Things happen in football that sometimes you can’t control.
 
I think this is quite clear. One in the mould of Gyokeres
How much would Gyokeres go for I wonder in today’s market? He has played in England before so has some experience that would hopefully guarantee better returns than our resident comic duo, Højlund and Zirkzee.
 
How much would Gyokeres go for I wonder in today’s market? He has played in England before so has some experience that would hopefully guarantee better returns than our resident comic duo, Højlund and Zirkzee.
I reckon we could get him for about 60m which is fairly cheap for an experienced ST that gets you goals. It should be fairly easier signing from teams like sporting.
 
I get why people want to get behind Amorim and I’m presuming it’s a written off season but some of the contradictions are silly.

This squad is arguably stronger then last seasons , the younger players with more experience and has way less injuries and while a lot is being made of Rashford , that’s one player , it’s not like this is the only player issue the last few seasons and he was a problem last season aswell.

As always , the truth is somewhere in the middle, it’s not a great squad but it’s not a lower half of league by a country mile.

I don’t blame Amorim, I blame INEOs, makes zero sense bringing him in like this. Might aswell of kept ruud or even the previous manager , if results don’t matter why bother putting the potential replacement in so much pressure. Do what they did with the bald one who signed a pre contract and remained with Ajax.

Totally agree. We still have high level international players like Ugarte, deligt, he's worked with bruno before, amad, martinez, eriksen, mazrouri, then you have mainoo, caz,nacho and had rashford(who he chose to exile) as options. That's a decent base to have a team putting in decent performances. Even ruud who I don't rate as a manager got a tune out of them

there's an argument that results will be up and down and I expected that, I said this season is a write off, but there is no signs of improvements in performances which is very concerning. I thought we looked fluid second half in the europa game when he bought amad and garnacho on, I thought he'd keep the same line up, but feels like he's trying to be too smart for his own good and of course it's hard to judge really on his competency if we are only looking good against farmers in the europa.

He talks a good game and but in recent weeks I found what he's been saying to the media naive, reactionary and immature playing up telling the fans what they want to hear to take pressure off himself Putting the carte before the horse, talking about standards, how players dress, worst team in manchester united history, if you don't train hard to my standard you dont play'' etc as if he's won CL's and already proven himself across multiple top tier leagues. You are not Jose Mourinho or Fergie mate, you don't have that Aura and CV to be throwing your weight around talking how you want to the media before you achieved anything here. Ten Hag made the same mistake

Just because United signed you up as manager doesn't give you all that credit in the bank to act like you are the new SAF
 
Can you find one team in Europe that has won all of their home games against non top six teams and all of their away games against bottom half teams?

There is a probability to winning/drawing/losing any given football game and the consistency you are expecting in your calculations is seen only in title-winning sides. And even they are unlikely to win all away games against bottom half. You are vastly unserestimating how difficult it is to win games.
Was it Ole or ETH who did it, with our very impressive home record. I give we won 17 home games. If i am not wrong.

But also.

Tell me how you're going to achieve 75 points without you not winning over 22 games? It's not practical. 22 games gives you 66 points only. Thats is not hard to achieve. You remain with 16 more games. Draw 10 of them, lose 6 of them. You have 76 points.

Probably its hard to achieve for United, but other teams achieve in excess of this points