This isn't the game to have doubt. We played a weakened side today
It’s this simple.
We don't have the players for it, it must be obvious by now.
He's blooded in a few bodies and we have played a he'll of a lot better in more games than we did under eth but just haven't squeezed out the results.
I am worried he thinks that was a good performance by Mount (goal aside which was a smart finish).
If Forest, Fulham, Palace, Wolves, Everton or Brentford have better squads than we do, I should just watch another sport.
OK, so I guess according to you absolutely all of our defeats under Amorim have been 100% deserved and never once has he been unfortunate?
We have certain 'fans' who cannot enjoy a win unless the opponents don't have a single shot at goal... because imagine if that shot had gone in.... oh no, then we'd only have won 2-1 and maybe they might've used the momentum of that goal they didn't score to score another
Maybe Amorim having a poor record at the start is good omen?
I'm not really in or out, whatever happens happens, but I think people still hanging their hat on "just change the manager one more time and we'll be good again" will probably end up disappointed (again). We have been atrociously run for over a decade, our playing squad is a hodgepodge that doesn't particularly suit the style of play that any of the "modern" managers we always tend to want will try to implement, our new co-owners have made a pretty unimpressive start in rearranging the football department and we are, seemingly, scraping the barrel for money when we still need significant investment in the squad even to go back to being top-4 challengers. Whatever happens with Amorim, there's an absolutely feck-ton of stuff that needs to be sorted and I'm not optimistic much of it will be.
And eth was dragged to that position by spending a fortune and having Rashford play a blinder to finish 3rd. He spent another 200 million and we finished 8th. Most of our crap players are because of eth tenure.
It's been the same all season. Are you suggesting these players haven't been training together for months? He's not improved us in controlling games.
Thought about this while watching the game. It’s the same “cup saves awful season” scenario.
I agree with you completely. Our club is horribly run.
Athletic are 4th in La Liga and have players capable of turning this around. We have lost 3 nil at home to worse competition, so no the SF is not over.
Thought we controlled most of the second half today.
I don't think there's anything about his results this season that would have made me want him out, no, is the short answer.
Wait, I thought the new footballing structure was going to handle recruitment from now on. Why are we talking about Amorim building "his" squad with "his" players now?
You can get 33/1 on Athletic club to qualify if you fancy putting your money where your mouth is
Yeah, after last summer you could see them not wanting to risk making the exact same mistake again. If Amorim continues to be such an unmitigated disaster and is sacked in October, having spent the summer budget on specialized signings, the club leadership will look like absolute idiots.
Tedious post. You know perfectly well what that poster means.
Did you watch us? We played exactly the same as we did when he finally got sacked.
I expect him to have a say, sure, but signing players tailor-made for a specific manager's style of play has long been a recipe for disaster for us.
Irrespective of how poorly the club has been run, Amorim has shown that he cannot cope with the standards in England. 6 wins in the league, 15th place and now confirmation that we won’t even reach 50 points. This is unacceptable for clubs like west ham and Brighton let alone United.
Which I pushed back on, as you can see in the follow-up post.
