Imagine if Southgate had been hired and was putting out these lineups and getting these results.
Doubt you’d have as many people defending him as Ruben currently gets.
Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
Imagine if Southgate had been hired and was putting out these lineups and getting these results.
Doubt you’d have as many people defending him as Ruben currently gets.
The media are already turning on him and I think if we lose today, the fans will too.
Seems to be a curse with all Man Utd managers post Fergie. We seem to always buy players and never play them in their natural positions. It’s infuriating as it is mystifying.
He’s going to get sacked if it continues and rightly so.
the second coming of AVB
There’s going to be a poll soon isn’t there… it’s not going to look good for him is it…
Richard Keys said the same thing. Normally that is never a sentence you want to her but he really needs to stop making the same mistakes.
What the feck is he doing? Now we have two odd fits at RWB and LWB
Don’t believe that for one second.
There is. We are going to be pulled into a relegation battle if we keep him.
There is a curse, there's no question about that. A relegation will come before a title win
In fairness, Amorim does have some credit in the bank because he's actually won stuff unlike Southgate.
Amorim is Einstein's definition of dumb. Let's try this for another 3 months. It must work. We are actually worse now than during his first weeks.
Players definitely aren’t fighting for him. I don’t know why, it’s not as if he publicly called them maybe the worst United team in the clubs history. Yes, they are a poor bunch of players, but are they this bad? No one can honestly say they are THIS bad, surely?
I don’t think this is beyond the realms of possibility. He wouldn’t have known just how bad our players are in terms of talent and attitude until he took the job. We are abysmal in every single area of the pitch, plus the board are morons and so are both sets of owners. It is complete, seemingly irreversible turmoil
I feel for RA, I really do. I hoe , the club have some patience with him, in the fullness of time though I hope he adapts. Adaptation is the hallmark of a good manager with the tools available. If all the players available give you a 3-5-2 formation then play 3-5-2. If the players available give you 4-2-3-1 then play that. What Fergie and Pep were / are available to do was / is adapt. Dont be too hard and rigid to the point where you end up being broke because of your principals are inflexible
I think he has inherited an utter Frankenstein of a Squad patched together from a number of managers, formations, and footballing philosophy's added with a massive turd bomb of bad buys. Defensively we are made of balsa wood and attacking we are as sharp as a block of butter. If you are an opposing coach, you got to be saying to your team, don't sit too deep, give it a go because this Utd team are offering nothing going forward.
I think he has inherited an utter Frankenstein of a Squad patched together from a number of managers, formations, and footballing philosophy's added with a massive turd bomb of bad buys. Defensively we are made of balsa wood and attacking we are as sharp as a block of butter. If you are an opposing coach, you got to be saying to your team, don't sit too deep, give it a go because this Utd team are offering nothing going forward.
It’s a very difficult situation he’s come into no doubt but Christ we look clueless in front of goal, and it’s no surprise when Amad and Hojlund (who is shit) are the only proper attacking players on the pitch.
Yeah I don't know what his attacking instructions are at all. Just ridiculously safe passing, everyone afraid and playing within themselves, not even a single player that can take the opposition on.
I'm sure he'll bring on Garnacho and we'll win but it's not supposed to be this hard given just the sheet quality difference in between the two squads
Worrying is just how calm the opposition are every time and just pick us off. We look at the mercy of most of the league.
Seems most of our players just want to play what's natural to them and Ruud really allowed that attacking flow. We're just so pedestrian.
Seems most of our players just want to play what's natural to them and Ruud really allowed that attacking flow. We're just so pedestrian.
He would be destroyed and have zero support certainly on forums.
Potter at Chelsea. He was sacked when nothing weren’t right. I can’t remember if their fans tuned on him badly. I imagine they did
Amorin is now unfortunately the problem... ridiculous to play the wing backs on their opposite sides, despite its obvious we are struggling in this area of play.
We are not improving, we've actually gone backwards and Amorin is getting away with it.
We are not improving, we've actually gone backwards and Amorin is getting away with it.
People keep trying to parrot this line but it's Leicester who are outplayed us a team that Everton put 4 past just last week. Are these players worse than leicester's squad as well.
The change in Mainoo is astonishing. He must be at about 25% of the levels he reached last season.
Amorim seems he is trying to reinvent the wheel and make it square instead of round, well, surprise surprise, it doesn't work.
I don’t understand why he’s playing players out of position. We desperately need confidence and momentum going. That’s something you do in some dead rubber game and you decide to experiment.
We are only 10 points off 17th and are struggling to play against Leicester at home. There definitely is a point to firing if we're at threat of being relegated!!!
Ruud did a better job has caretaker against the same team!
I’d like to think most would still be in favour of giving him more time
But everyone I reckon is getting pretty worried
We beat Leicester like 6 times already this season, anyone claiming the squad is worse than Leicester's is just having their head in the sand
Where's the poll??
I just don’t know. You can’t keep blaming the players when they are clearly told to play a certain way.
We should under no circumstances be playing the ball so close to our own goal, we keep fecking it up - for the goal, Amad and Mainoo on our own 18 yard line, how can we even counter quick when it is 1 person up front.
We are playing like a team in relegation zone - all from Ruben’s setup.
We don’t have the money to buy lads that suit his system - he needs to figure out how the feck to use what he has available.
Before we try to pin this on the players, we didn't look this shit when we played Leicester under Ruud.
The simple fact is that we cannot create chances. Everything is slow and predictable.
The simple fact is that we cannot create chances. Everything is slow and predictable.
To be fair, I think Dorgu is used to playing in both sides. Still a baffling decision though.
I do have concerns about this idea we have to spend the next 3 transfer windows buying players that only fit his one very specific system.
It's probably cheaper to sack him and just get somebody who'll make do with the wasters we've got. Get us back to 10th in the league or something.
It's probably cheaper to sack him and just get somebody who'll make do with the wasters we've got. Get us back to 10th in the league or something.
Spurs, Everton and Ipswich in next 3 games. Lose them and it will look bad for him.
This. I don’t think anyone can blindly support Amorim here. The football is sh.t, the lineups are almost always questionable, and obviously we all know how the results have been.
I really like him, and obviously want him to succeed. But getting really tired of such dogmatic coaches. Everybody is Guardiola-redux apparently. Even Guardiola needs billions and/or a La Masia star cohort to win.
I wish I could say to my boss in the first month of my new job at a massive company, "there's going to be pain but this is how I work and I won't change, it will work when you let go of people that are already here and get me different people". Doesn't seem like management genius to me.
Why is Dalot continuing on the left? Inverted wingers AND inverted wing backs? Why is Bruno not playing forward. Why are they not mixing it up once in a while and go long with a goalkick and relieve some pressure, when what ends up happening more of than not is they play around the bank and a defender has to hoof it up anyway?
I wish I could say to my boss in the first month of my new job at a massive company, "there's going to be pain but this is how I work and I won't change, it will work when you let go of people that are already here and get me different people". Doesn't seem like management genius to me.
Why is Dalot continuing on the left? Inverted wingers AND inverted wing backs? Why is Bruno not playing forward. Why are they not mixing it up once in a while and go long with a goalkick and relieve some pressure, when what ends up happening more of than not is they play around the bank and a defender has to hoof it up anyway?
Hes clueless and seems to change the position on players all the time.
There is a reason Liverpool nor City employed him, that's because they weren't as dumb as our CEO and think that its ok to rip out the team you have to accommodate a hard headed manger with a only one tactic would be a success. All the while Club does not have funds.
He's the one. His tactics suit English football and his team actually attack pretty well. It's a shame we can't convince him. No idea whos really the right fit for us.