You have literally nothing to go on but blind faith. If he can't even improve results and performances with what he's got, then how will getting him a whole new squad be any guarantee of success?
You've got some language in there that I feel really misunderstands the arguments that I and other 'have patience' posters are making.
Firstly there's no guarantees anywhere in football or in life. We look at the options available and believe having patience for now is our best chance of success. If you disagree with that, please by all means tell me which coach comes into this team now and guarantees us success.
But also the idea that we're operating on blind faith - well that's rubbish isn't it. This isn't some guy off the street, he's one of the most promising young coaches in Europe, having performed wonders at Sporting, whilst completely rebuilding the team and displaying attributes that should be attractive to us. I don't trust he'll succeed, I don't have blind faith - I instead recognize he has many qualities which should give him the tools to take a good group of players and turn them into a great team.
Here's how you need to be looking at this - there's two elements to a successful Manchester United team - talent on the pitch, and a coach who can coach and organize them into being effective.
Do we have the coach who can do that here? Maybe. Not yes, because he hasn't demonstrated up until now he can handle the job, but not no because of the wealth of mitigating factors he has had to deal with.
Do we have the requisite talent on the pitch. 100% no, absolutely not. We all know this. A decade plus change of dogshit recruitment has left us with the worst Manchester United team in my lifetime. The team was dogshit under Ten Hag, and he and Murtough made it worse, whilst time has further aged a number of players who were creaking 2 years ago. We all know the team needs to drastically change over the summer.
So you've got 2 areas that need to be decided - 1 - replacing a team that is known to be not good enough, and 2 - determining whether this coach is good enough to lead us forward.
How about we just take care of number 1 first?
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Now before you come back to me and say "what if we buy more players for a manager and then fire him and then we're stuck with those players for the next manager who doesn't want them" - which players would that be? Keeping in mind this is a new recruitment team, and we're now prioritizing signing young players on low wages with plenty of resale value. Would it be pacy wingbacks who can double as wingers? Easy to sell on. Would it be hard working and technically strong 10s and CMs? Easy to sell on. Would it be a good striker? I'll let you take that one.
If you don't trust the new recruitment team to be able to do that - fair enough, they're also unproven (if showing promising signs). But again that's not on Amorim, and if they can't solve the big flashing number 1 problem of replacing the team, then it doesn't fecking matter who the coach is. No coach in the world is winning the league with shit players.
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Watching the game yesterday I saw a tired team that lacks physicality and made up of players, many of them too old or who won't be here next year, get bullied into mistakes by a team that has been honed and added to smartly over a number of years. And that was also rested. And high on confidence. And yet despite that we looked good in the first half. I'm not saying give Amorim the time Howe has gotten. But surely you can allow him a little more grace than this?
