I have a hunch... These bunch of losers won't suddenly turn into prime Man City, just because manager's last name is Amorim instead of Ten Hag, and it sounds like you won't accept anything less.
What did you expect?Was literally just about to put this
Ah yes, us fickle fans, right. Only 18 months of utter underperformance, and already we want a new shiny toy manager!I have a hunch... These bunch of losers won't suddenly turn into prime Man City, just because manager's last name is Amorim instead of Ten Hag, and it sounds like you won't accept anything less.
As for what I bet, if I lose, you can dig up my old post and comment it with "you were wrong" and I may even thumb it up
Every time
Something like that
Because he’s probably paid not that much at Sporting and will be paid the going rate for a top prem club.
What time frame are we talking about?Something like that
But seriously, Amorim is a gamble. He's not achieved anything to be confident that he can perform at the level of United's ambitions. He may, he may not. Ten Hag had even better CV when he joined us, but more importantly - any new manager will need good players and too many of our players are simply not good enough for premier league, and yet we have no money to do anything significant about it.
Will you be fine, if Amorim comes in and we still finish 6th and not win any trophies?
Yes because we’re bottom half of the table and you can’t count on a manager winning a trophy coming in mid season.Something like that
But seriously, Amorim is a gamble. He's not achieved anything to be confident that he can perform at the level of United's ambitions. He may, he may not. Ten Hag had even better CV when he joined us, but more importantly - any new manager will need good players and too many of our players are simply not good enough for premier league, and yet we have no money to do anything significant about it.
Will you be fine, if Amorim comes in and we still finish 6th and not win any trophies?
June 2025. Amorim comes in and we finish season at or below 6th, no trophies. Will you be complaining about him?
Cos he’ll go to city if we don’t probably
Given where we are right now and the underlying numbers I wouldn't be too disappointed with that.
I don't know. It depends on how he does.
Very much depends on whether Pep decides to leave City at the end of the season it would seem.
Very! If City and Pep were allegedly lining him as his successor, you know he is good and has potential.
He plays two wide-ish no. 10s, no? I would imagine Fernandes would play on the right hand side of the attacking midfield position. Rashford or Garnacho from the left, just a bit narrower than they usually play.
Expecting any coach to be a proven commodity is idiotic, and Alonso might not even have been open to coming. Amorim is a fantastic candidate. Doesn’t mean he’s going to be great or even good here, and the club hopefully doesn’t marry itself to him.
We should be, but it’s most likely an open secret he’ll be at Real after Ancelotti. There’s only one club no one could compete with for Xabi and that’s Real.
Agreed. I genuinely think we have a decent squad, more than capable of securing a CL place if properly coached, motivated and played in a sensible system.
Assuming they will buy or rent Amorim a left back in January transfer window, so we can at least have a non-injured left back (a sizeable "if") our squad is still very bad because it consists of
Oh that makes sense. Amad would fit that role like a glove too, you'd think.
Also depends on the performances. People get so black and white with results sometimes. Worst being the embarrassing notion that many would have taken our season last year over Arsenals.
If things go badly I can see a lot of people getting upset with the 3 at the back, possibly in the media as there'll be references to the United teams of old and United DNA and all that. People didn't like it in LvG's first season.
As others have said though it's supposedly more of a 3-4-3 with wingers so we'll see. Personally I've never been convinced that 3 at the back is some grave insult to attacking football- it depends how it's set up. That Liverpool team of the mid 90s were very attacking and their defence was often shite but they played some good football in a 5-3-2 (won feck all though
But that’s stupid. You can give him a hefty increase by all means, but to triple his wage immediately seems off. Make him work for it, give him bonuses for achieving targets or pathways to raises etc. but he could come in, fall flat on his face and it won’t matter a joy to him cos he’s guaranteed his millions already.
Yeah I’m with you.
Fairly direct yes, but his team still averages by far the highest possession in the league - 65.3%, ahead of second place Benfica with 61.2%.
