Is this the same midfielder that won 1 duel and played 21 passes the entire game? Great game that. Must have done some wild runs to open up space for the rest.
Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach
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Apparently the Villa press officer jumped in and said no Rashford questions during a Tieleman interview...how it should be done!
It's open season with the United press officer where everything is allowed and for as long as you wish.
Amorim should be facing No more questions about INEOS or staff redundancies fir the rest of the season.
It's open season with the United press officer where everything is allowed and for as long as you wish.
Amorim should be facing No more questions about INEOS or staff redundancies fir the rest of the season.
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We should have told the ref not to count them cause some of the Cafe don’t like us scoring from set pieces!
Problem is the press officer was part of the staff redundancies
I think there's valid criticism in terms of open play creation, but set pieces shouldn't be scoffed at. We want to be good at both.
Thats quite funny because if you go watch all of our games.
Forrest - scored goals by pressing us... Morgan Gibbs white
Everton pressed us quite high
West Ham under Potter are more a pressing team
Ipswhich both games were pressing us
So go have a look at that again.
Many years of bad transfer dealings coupled with bad luck. It has caught up with us and will take many more years to recover from.
Kafkaesque claimYou’ve had about ten responses that instantly proved your point
There is also little evidence that completely rebuilding the squad to suit amorim will be worth the effort
Mourinho start of that 2nd season was the best run of result we have had since SAF left.
That ETH period made me thought a couple of upgrades we would be competing at the top, but with hindsight that Rashford season papered over all of the teams frailties and tactical failings.
I believe the football structure, will go for someone with a similar football philosophy 4 ATB or 3 ATB, shouldn't be a caveat as players should be able to adapt.
No one truly knows what we are planning, I am hoping once we know what is happening in both cups whether we go all the way or knocked out, I expect some transfers to move pretty quickly as we will know our budget for the season, hopefully we are moving quickly to rectify some of the teams issues.
That's why you buy players with a profile that any new manager would be happy to have. young, physical, skilled and with the right mentality.
Without him we'd be in the relegation zone he's played a role in 40% of the few goals we actually do score
Bingo.
There's as much evidence as there was when we appointed him.
Whoever had taken over and whatever formation they had played, there would still not be enough athleticism and physicality in the squad to succeed in the Prem as it currently is. City have invested because Pep has said that his previous style of possession football doesn't work anymore.
Ineos decided not to react (apart from Dorgu) to address this in January, favouring making the right transfers in the Summer. We have also cut ties with Rashford and Antony without replacing them. We have no goalscoring threat from the attacking players left with Amad injured.
Amorim should get a clean slate for the next season.
Just quoting the above because I see it was kinda pointed out already...
The reason we get pressed is because we're absolutely shite at progressing the ball through our defence and midfield.
We have players in defence and in goal who lack composure/guile/decision making and athleticism and are ponderous, hence why teams alter things when up against us and press high. It's called 'flexible game management'. Not something Amorim has shown enough so far might I add.
Maybe go have a look at games not involving United to get a better view of how most teams set up most weeks.
Describing Forest as a high press/front footed team is kinda laughable. They have the lowest possession stats in the league this season. And guess which teams are 2nd and 3rd? Yeah Everton and Ipswich. These teams in generally do absolutely not high press or play on the front foot. They sit deep, concede possession and seek to win the ball back in their half before countering. That doesnt happen versus us because were fecking shit.
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He’s forced to pick a team from players who should be dropped but can’t because there’s no alternative at GK, RWB, CF, CM + many of them know they’re not in his plans long term. Can’t be easy to get a tune out of them in this situation.
Indeed.
All the managers who tried slow build up from the back failed at Utd, Ole whenever he tried, ETH to some extent and now Amorim. LVG had some success on keeping possession but that was it, we had 70% of the ball but no threat in attack. About the reasons, we can only speculate, but no1 cause was the quality of the players who were mostly unsuited for this style.
Just recently we were pressed hard and had big problems against Ipswich and Soton, AT HOME, 2 of the worst team in the league.
Imagine how ineffective and risky this approach is for us, we have Onana, Maguire, De Ligt, Ugarte, Dalot, Casemiro all slow players on the ball who lack the technical ability and the movement for this type of football, it is simply not for us.