Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach

I wonder if he’s regretting coming here. He could be in sunny portugal, dominating, living high life in a beautiful villa. He looked so stressed today, it’s like watching a different person.
 
I think I've seen Garnacho cross more in 2025 then his entire time here. Ruben should get credit for that.
 
He's actually kind of reminding me of Jose lately. The life sucked out of him version of Mourinho, where he's just calculating everything in his head and the world is on his shoulders. Really hope he starts winning games with performances to bring that charm back. He's got to find a way to get results and better performances until the summer. Cause it's fairly dire.
 
I like to call things as I see them. This guy has been very poor so far in my eyes. Has us set up terribly every game, half of our players in sub-optimised positions and no semblance of a unit. I understand the working theory of him getting his methods across, so of course - we have to wait and see in the long run and I am happy to do that. But blind denial serves nobody, we look terrible, and looked far better this season even before he was appointed in my eyes. He completely neuters us every game by basically playing Dalot at left wing, and we excused him for not having a natural fit - yet he signs one and immediately proceeds to make things difficult for himself by playing him on the right.

I appreciate that he is a coach and I am not, but that is a lot more relevant when his different ideas to mine are vindicated by appearing to make sense on the pitch, which they don’t. Feck knows what he’s trying to achieve with Dalot in this position, but it’s never worked once, except maybe against an awful Trent Alexander-Arnold. Now it’s compounded with Mainoo upfront, Bruno in central midfield.

He needs to realise that it’s 2025, not 2026. He is not managing in next season yet, he’s managing next weekend. I worry that we may do irreparable damage by the time we make it to this panacea of the summer window. The squad and mood at the club may be completely broken with shattered confidence if they simply lose games most weeks for months.

I will close by saying that of course, this could suddenly improve dramatically (we probably can’t get much worse tbh), by we’re absolutely taking a number of steps backwards in the hope of going forward. And we weren’t even very high to begin with. We’ve had some decent performances in tough away games which even terrible teams have been able to do for years and years in football when you stay organised and contain a better opponent. If this level of performance continues to the end of the season I will be very worried. What I would have hoped to see when Amorim came in was some cohesion that clearly highlights a lack of players, which can then be addressed in the summer. That’s what I want in the next few months, irrespective of the results. I don’t care about those right now.
 
I have a bad feeling we are repeating the same mistakes we made with Ten Hag despite the club doing we can't afford to do this.

I think it's pretty obvious we are going to buy Gyokeres in the summer for example. We will pay his clause of 63 million. My question is who else would be looking to pay that?

I don't think there would be anyone. I have a feeling we are just going down the path of buying players the manager has used before for large sums of money players no other club would pay that amount for.
 
I can't lie, what he's been delivering on the pitch has been disappointing so far. I like how he carries himself and how he speaks, but we need to start seeing more from him at some point before the end of the season to give us confidence.
 
Cassidy said:
He basically played quite a few positions on both left and right. Which is why Amorim was taking the piss with his answer. He referenced wyscout because he is saying reporters should bother to complete basic research before asking stupid questions.

https://www.whoscored.com/players/495260/show/patrick-dorgu
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Dorgu's natural position is in the left. Dalot's natural position is in the right. Dalot is half decent on the right but terrible on the left. He's not going to cut in and cause havoc in the center (has that ever happened?) and neither can he make overlapping runs and cross with his left. In an already boring 3-4-3 formation, wing backs making overlapping runs, getting into space and providing supply inside the box is critical. Instead this role has been taken up by our forwards (Garnacho and Amad) who should the receivers of this supply and are a better goal scoring threat. Hojlund's isolated in this with central midfielders often arriving too late and not at all. You can see how many of Garnacho's good crosses went to the drain because there wasn't a body in the place he crossed. We improved yesterday in the 2nd after after Dorgu came off because Amad is far more comfortable going in/out as compared to Dorgu/Dalot but that's not his natural position again.

Frankly, all this hype on 3-4-3 is reminiscent of Rangnick's magical 4-2-2-2 formation. We seem to be doing a lot with the press (conferences) and little with actual pressing. All gas and no result so far. I just hope we're not paying top dollars for an intern to learn on the job.
 
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ShinjiNinja26 said:
Fergie would struggle to get a tune out of these wasters.
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Disagree with that. Fergie would keep things so simple and straightforward and he would put the fear of God into these players. Anyone who steps out of line would be immediately ostracised.

Football is not a complicated game at all. Its all these big brain Pep wannabes who unnecessarily complicate things and end up looking stupid. Little surprise that the manager who got us playing the best was also the one who kept it the simplest.
 
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