Ruben Amorim | United meet Sporting release clause

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Anyone heard of any rivers for the Sporting vs. Nacional game tonight? I don't think it's right that someone might know that a stream exists, and doesn't share it with others to report the disgusting link with more success.
 

I hope he plays the way we have employed him for. If he wants 3 at the back then do it.

We just went down that road with EtH.

What are we basing this on then?

Didn’t conte win the league playing 3 at the back with Chelsea?

What? Why? Tuchel played 343 with Chelsea and it looked good. Conte won PL with 3 at the back.

I'd back us playing 3-5-3 tbf but we may be reliant on the ref having dyscalculia.

If dyscalculia is a s rife as it seems, it won’t be an issue for most games.

Possible to defend with 3 at the back, but impossible to attack with an extra player in midfield and attack.

Impossible even if you add a 12th player.

Never change Caf.

That’s why conte won the league using 3 at the back. It’s actually better to attack like that because you have extra cover at the back which gives more freedom going forward.

353, so we play 12 players?

Amorims a genius.

I'd hope 3-5-3 would work, seen as you'd be having a man advantage and all!

But more seriously speaking, Conte and Tuchel both did well in the league with 3 at the back. I'm not really a fan of this 3 at the back formations either - it has a very negative/defensive reputation but I think footballs a little more fluid these days, mostly with an emphasis on high pressing and either possession/fast transition football. Fullbacks stepping into midfield, playing a defensive 4 all consisting of 3-4 CB's anyway etc. are all the hype these days, so I'm open to 3 at the back and seeing how it has adapted to "modern football".

A typo is all what is needed to be famous overnight at CAF :)
My sincere apologies to who got confused, but thanks to all who figured it out.

Chelsea might have won league but I doubt they followed 3-4-3 consistently. Nor for that matter any strong team consistently.
Just based on numbers, we are struggling to find net with 8 players attacking and with 3 at the back and 2 wingbacks , at the maximum we can have 7 attacking we are going to struggle. Primary focus would be defense in such system which is ok in crunch games but not for all games. I dont think we have players anyway for such system but I would be very happy if it is proved wrong.
 
He also played with Lindelof go figure

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Did not know that :)
 
One issue with ETH aside from not being good enough is that he wasn’t interested in us playing the way his Ajax team did. He seemed to go all in on the transition football dream and it proved a stupid decision.

Agree. That’s where it all went wrong after a promising first season. As soon as we declared an interest in Mount I was confused about our direction. Ten Hag seemed to convince himself the poor results were all down to the injuries and so he persisted with it.

Alexis Macallister is the player we should have been in for.
 
Or perhaps, by the end of the season, theyll be relieved if he doesnt performed well—we truly don’t know how good he’ll be. We tend to place the managers we hire on a pedestal, but this blind trust has burned us far too many times. I hope he succeeds, but if he doesn’t, then I hope INEOS won’t waste another three years and hundreds of millions, as we did with his predecessors
We're already compiling a 90m bid for their right wingers who prefers playing on the left.
 
Do we expect him to already manage us v Chelsea this weekend?
I think it would be a bad idea, Chelsea are too strong for us at the moment. Let him make his debut against Leicester and he then has an incredible run of games to build some early momentum.
 
Personally, I've always liked the 343, I see it as a modern day 442. I actually think his system would work really well with us and in the league with its focus central attacking connections. People won't want to hear this, but it reminds me of some of the movements we tried to have under Ole, which is why I think with a better manager who has a high focus on this strategy it may work.

He seems like a good manager, for me, after the debacle with Ten Hag, I would have preferred a manager who has had success in Italy, England or Spain, however, that is a lot rarer to find than I would like to admit. His system is solid and seems less complex than Ten Hag's, which is a positive, as I actually felt that we were overly fluid. I think Ten Hag's tactics failed because it required too many patterns to work in order to succeed; in addition, focusing so much movement on those patterns, led to us not being solid. Essentially, we had an overly attacking system that didn't work and left us exposed to easy counters. I personally think that was a direct result of the total football line of thinking, that only a few dutch managers are actually able to successfully employ at the top level. The fluidity required, makes England the least likely place to have success with that philsophy due to the intensity of the league.

I think Amorim's system is more straightforward with different simple patterns that can lead to success. Despite this I think as a club, we need to be more careful in crowning a manager, and not holding them accountable for poor results, even early into their tenures. A bad performance shouldn't simply be dismissed. He has to prove to us that he belongs here, and we should act like that.
 
Seems to defend in a 4-4-2 when they don't have the ball. Not sure if it's just for today or that's how they normally do but it's not that different to how we setup this season when we don't have the ball.
 
The Sun sport page has genuinely got about 45 stories about this. One trash article after another.
 
Their centre forward looks like a Hojlund cosplayer.
 
Almost like the hierarchy DO know what they are doing, eh?
I was having a good laugh just now as I saw an ESPN article about what went wrong for ten Hag at United. In between paragraphs, they had links to articles/sound bites from yesterday afternoon from the likes of Dawson and Ogden, titled "Sacking of ten Hag shows that Ineos don't know what they're doing" and "United interested in Thomas Frank to replace ten Hag". I don't know what's more satisfying, to have a competent hierarchy who knows what they're doing, or to see some of those media hacks having egg on their faces because of our hierarchy's decisiveness.
 
Playing with a right footed left wing back and a left footed right wing back which is interesting. Not sure if they always play with them.
 
I for one hope he’s not a hard disciplinarian.
 
The Sun sport page has genuinely got about 45 stories about this. One trash article after another.
Mi Amor Amorim!
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Ajax: oh, like you took good care of Donny/Erik/Antony/Licha?

We have bankrolled Ajax for years to come in exchange for bang average players and a bad manager ...they must love us.

They probably get Anthony and Ten Hag back for a pittance next year
 
Guaranteed success. Sporto have never sent us a dud before and are unlikey to start now.
 
Seems to defend in a 4-4-2 when they don't have the ball. Not sure if it's just for today or that's how they normally do but it's not that different to how we setup this season when we don't have the ball.

That's a pretty common defensive set up that a lot of teams defend with no? 2 banks of 4 ahead of the two most attacking players.

I'm not a fan of 3 at the back, but if it works for him cool, and he can always adjust. More important is that he is able to adjust the tactics and not be a rigid fool like ETH had been.
 
I have no idea if Amorim is going to be a success but I'm just glad that:
(1) we've made a replacement straight away and not arsed around with an interim for the next 6 months. I don't think I could have handled another season wasted with a dead duck interim, even if it was a club legend!
(2) looks like he'll be able to bring his coaching team with him. Parachuting him into this shitshow on his own and saying "OK Ruben sort this out" would be just setting him up to fail.
(3) I can finally relax in the knowledge that the next appointment will not be Gareth Southgate or Graeme Potter!
 
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