Ruben Amorim | United meet Sporting release clause
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Sent as a bodyguard for dodgy away trips
Needs more capitalisation for EMPHASIS
I'm just imagining him naked now.
You're only human
It's nice when things just do what they say on the tin.
Yea, you're right. A lot of teams do it. Even Arsenal do it. It was funny to see earlier in the season when some people were complaining about how Bruno was too high and right next to Hojlund when it was clearly our defensive shape.
Why is the toast so burnt?
Left it in the toaster for too long
I wish Ruben luck. Perhaps it's an impossible job. Without sounding weird, I simply do not know what to think anymore!
Why anything
Been a bit crap, this.
Sack Amorim, sell Inacio.
Sack Amorim, sell Inacio.
The players, fans, manager. They are all too upset to focus.
Stupid sexy Amorim.
In Argentina, burnt toast is a term on endearment.
True, but it seems increasingly clear that they wanted to give ETH every one of his 9 lives before pulling the trigger. They've been planning this scenario for a while.
I am a little ambivalent about all this. For one, I am still a bit shocked about the sacking (not the fact ETH got sacked, more that he got sacked now) but I think it looks very positively that we seemed to be prepared and have taken the steps to bring in a replacement quite early. Also it seems it might have been the first choice. Very professional, very decisive, I like it.
I personally would probably have tried to bring in somebody with less of tactical differences. I mean, we went down the route of fullbacks inverting, now it is wingbacks and we have none of them... I've seen a few listing Dalot and Maz, very different profiles to the guys who play those positions for Sporting. I also think Amorims supposed style of a narrow front three might cause issues for Rashford and Garnacho and Bruno. From what I understood, Amorim likes it narrow and I think it will get quite crowded with not a lot of time on the ball. People not comfortable on the ball was an issue with ETH already so we'll have to see how that pans out.
Just lets note that Amorim is more or less something very similar to what ETH was, when he joined. I definitely don't think the club made a mistake with either of them but lets see how things go. I'd definitely recommend making sure a therapeut is in place to take over Amorim when needed, from what I read he is pretty big on pressing (execute own pressing effective, exploit oppositions press) and he thinks the center is the most important part of the pitch... Especially the last thing couldn't be more foreign to most of our players.
I personally would probably have tried to bring in somebody with less of tactical differences. I mean, we went down the route of fullbacks inverting, now it is wingbacks and we have none of them... I've seen a few listing Dalot and Maz, very different profiles to the guys who play those positions for Sporting. I also think Amorims supposed style of a narrow front three might cause issues for Rashford and Garnacho and Bruno. From what I understood, Amorim likes it narrow and I think it will get quite crowded with not a lot of time on the ball. People not comfortable on the ball was an issue with ETH already so we'll have to see how that pans out.
Just lets note that Amorim is more or less something very similar to what ETH was, when he joined. I definitely don't think the club made a mistake with either of them but lets see how things go. I'd definitely recommend making sure a therapeut is in place to take over Amorim when needed, from what I read he is pretty big on pressing (execute own pressing effective, exploit oppositions press) and he thinks the center is the most important part of the pitch... Especially the last thing couldn't be more foreign to most of our players.
Has blamed anything on the Bruno red card against Spurs yet?
0-0 at halftime
He'll fit right in
He'll fit right in
His team can't score against Nacional, sack him.
Watching this I'd say it'll suit the majority of our players including Bruno and Dalot. I don't see how Rashford will manage it though as he can't play in these tight spaces at all so he'll be a backup striker.
The only major gap I can see is at LB but we had that issue with Shaw and Malacia anyway.
Was listening to Ogden, Dawson, and James Olley on their new “Football Reporters” ESPN podcast. All three of them were talking complete cobblers. Ogden reckoned Southgate wouldn't take the United job because it would ruin his reputation (!!!) and that we would be “scraping the barrel” for unemployed managers. He said that was based on conversations he’d had just before the show. - Massively embarrassing for him, or it should be. He's obviously got really poor sources. I don't think I've heard him get anything right, news-wise, for years.
Read it in their forum that the similarities between the state of both united and sporting before his arrival was quite similar with both paying off his 10m clause at the start of the season.
They finished fourth that season and won the league the next, couldn't complain were he to take the same trajectory over here.
They finished fourth that season and won the league the next, couldn't complain were he to take the same trajectory over here.
Ogden is the Michael Oliver of journalism
I am one of these weird traditionalists in the sense that I’d prefer a more proven manager who has won things in big leagues, and ideally in the premier league. Mourinho was toxic but statistically our best manager.
I’d be lying if I didn’t say this is a risky appointment. But I acknowledge that for me I want to guarantee a certain baseline (top 4 for 3 years in a row sounds lovely), whereas Amorim might be the right choice if we’re taking more risk but for potentially more of an upside (an actual big title, a dynasty, or a real fork in the road towards the better since 2013).
I am nervous but excited. Which is exactly how I felt when we hired ETH so there is that.
I’d be lying if I didn’t say this is a risky appointment. But I acknowledge that for me I want to guarantee a certain baseline (top 4 for 3 years in a row sounds lovely), whereas Amorim might be the right choice if we’re taking more risk but for potentially more of an upside (an actual big title, a dynasty, or a real fork in the road towards the better since 2013).
I am nervous but excited. Which is exactly how I felt when we hired ETH so there is that.
I’d be very surprised if we managed 4th at this point, the competition is just far too strong, but stranger things have happened.
I’d hope that our expectations are to finally start progressing as a team on the pitch, with an established identity and a solid top half finish for us to build upon next season.
Amorim is probably best possible choice atm (most exciting certainly). Think Frank and Iraola are doing fine job at Brentford/Bournemouth so will be interesting to see where they go next.
Amorim is similar appointment to ten Hag in terms of doing really well in European league (Portugal probably similar in terms of quality to Netherlands) but managing United is whole different level. He could be another Mourinho or another Villas-Boas, no one can tell.
Bruno has been our best signing of post-Fergie era so hopefully Amorim will be our best manager in post-Fergie era.
Amorim is similar appointment to ten Hag in terms of doing really well in European league (Portugal probably similar in terms of quality to Netherlands) but managing United is whole different level. He could be another Mourinho or another Villas-Boas, no one can tell.
Bruno has been our best signing of post-Fergie era so hopefully Amorim will be our best manager in post-Fergie era.
I think some of my trepidation is the similar backgrounds of ETH, who was the right choice at the time, and Amorim, who appears to be the right choice at the time. On “proven managers”, it’s something I had considered but I’m not sure who really fitted into that category, in all honesty. Graham Potter, Gareth Southgate, Thomas Frank, Terzic etc aren’t proven for a few different reasons. The only one who was, who was only ever mentioned in passing, appeared to be Allegri.
I worry that Garnacho is equally ill suited for playing in tight spaces. Amad might actually be a good fit for the narrow AM role, and I think Bruno and Mount would be fine as well (Mount if he's ever fit)
Sporting scored. 1-0.
Come on the boys!
Goal came from both of their 'deep' midfielders being in the box.
Casemiro on for a 15 goal season.
Yesssss
Mourinho is an interesting example given where he arrived from when he first moved to England.
Since he’s basically confirmed as ours can we chalk this down as his first win as Man United manager?
enjoy being revered by your fans whilst you can, you piece of shit.
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