Has to be given time at least until mid season next year.
No he certainly doesn't. It will depend entirely on results.
Has to be given time at least until mid season next year.
I don't really see any "irrespective" about it, we're in a position where we spent £100m on two of the worst players in the team, and they aren't just one-off misses. I don't think Amorim could have any complaints if he got sacked, I just don't think that's what's going to change our fortunes next year. We might challenge for top-six by going back to playing to our squad's strengths on the counter, I guess, but I'm not excited at that prospect.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.
If the club wants to show that it’s turned a corner then buy players who are versatile and can suit any system. The last thing we need is £200 million spent on players only suited for Amorim.
He will. Don’t worry.Has to be given time at least until mid season next year.
Why would he be identifying them though? He's not a scout.
It's just not an effective way to run recruitment nowadays, as we've learned the hard way many times.
Do you think Dorgu and Dalot will play WB next season? Are they top 5 material?It could be Cunha or Gyokeres. Check the transfer forum threads for debates there.
If we weren’t in the EL we probably wouldn't have played a heavily rotated team, and we’d have likely won it today. We still came close away from home against a good team.
But it is the exact same mistakes you’re advocating that we make. Is this not exactly what this supposed football structure was supposed to put an end to? Signing players tailored to a single manager’s specific needs, only to have the next manager come in and disassemble the squad and replace Yesterday’s signings with new expensive players who aren’t necessarily better, just of a different profile. That’s what got us into this mess. Imagine the money we could have saved if we’d just kept Smalling and Evans rather than buying a shitload of defenders who weren’t any better. The structure was supposed to protect us from that by having a set squad formation and an overarching philosophy that all signings should fit into, so that one manager’s signings didn’t end up as another’s deadwood. Yet now we have a manager who decided mid-season to change our club formation to one that evidently suits neither the team nor the league, and now you have fans wanting him to spend a fortune tailoring the squad to this specific system?Stop with posts like this. Either debate sensibly or don't post in this thread.
He massively performed Amorim though, so if Amorim deserves a second season then it was a great disservice to Rangnick not to offer him the job full time.
Just look at the nature of the goals conceded today. It absolutely nothing to do with ‘system’ or whatever jargon you want to use.
I actually liked Rangnick, but it was clear pretty early on that the squad had zero belief in him (something that, of our other managers, I've really only seen happen with Moyes) - and when that occurs, things will only end one way.He massively performed Amorim though, so if Amorim deserves a second season then it was a great disservice to Rangnick not to offer him the job full time.
Exactly, even in being so stubborn in his formation Amorim could tweak it so the two 10’s were wide players instead and we’d have pace and width.It is. We’d be a hell of a lot better if Amad snd Garnacho were playing as wide forwards in a 433 right now.
Right there in lies the problem at the club as just like before under the Glazer’s with Woodward we’re seeing non footballing people making footballing decisions and the worst part is we finally had someone in Ashworth who IS a footballing person and KNOWS how to put together a proper footballing structure and we ignored his advice to allow a fecking cycling coach in Brailsford and a sponsorship/commercial guy in Berrada to overrule Ashworth and go with their choices.Berada obviously knew that Amorim played a specific style and formation before he signed him, so it wouldn't make much sense for the club to change Amorim. The likelier scenario is they will support him by buying a list of players he has identified for various positions in need.
Surely you can’t be serious ?I think he can turn it around with one player.
If we weren’t in the EL we probably wouldn't have played a heavily rotated team, and we’d have likely won it today.
I think the feeling was mutual. Ralf was on a hiding to nothing and that's why he said some of things he did. I think it has been a shock for a few managers since Fergie when they found out how bad things were from the top down.I actually liked Rangnick, but it was clear pretty early on that the squad had zero belief in him (something that, of our other managers, I've really only seen happen with Moyes) - and when that occurs, things will only end one way.
It would really suck, and it would hurt us significantly financially and in the transfer market, but that's about it IMO.What will be the fallout from this season if we don’t win the Europa League?
It’s clear that at this point all our eggs are in that basket. I do think that there is something to be said for building confidence with some wins, and the opposite happening if we keep on losing these matches, but that’s just my opinion, so that’s whatever. I can’t see there being any hiccups against Bilbao, but there’s a strong chance we might end up meeting Spurs in the final and we get beat by any team that is PL level these days, never mind one that’s scored 20 more goals than us and has beaten us a few times this season
Given that we’re losing most of our league games regardless of who we play, then yes, it’s a silly, blanket statement based on nothing.I mean we only lost by a single goal and we rotated about 6 or 7 players, so hardly a controversial opinion.
Agreed, and IIRC he accepted the Austria job before he was told the consultancy was canceled, so I don't think he was too upset about not staying on.I think the feeling was mutual. Ralf was on a hiding to nothing and that's why he said some of things he did. I think it has been a shock for a few managers since Fergie when they found out how bad things were from the top down.
Exactly, even in being so stubborn in his formation Amorim could tweak it so the two 10’s were wide players instead and we’d have pace and width.
Right there in lies the problem at the club as just like before under the Glazer’s with Woodward we’re seeing non footballing people making footballing decisions and the worst part is we finally had someone in Ashworth who IS a footballing person and KNOWS how to put together a proper footballing structure and we ignored his advice to allow a fecking cycling coach in Brailsford and a sponsorship/commercial guy in Berrada to overrule Ashworth and go with their choices.
If as most likely based on how things look Amorim is gone by Christmas then Berrada should be told by Ineos he isn’t allowed in on any footballing decisions again as outside of the weakest Europa in years due to no CL teams dropping down into it Amorim has been a domestic disaster and that is 100% on Berrada, the first thing a new coach should do is improve what he has and Amorim has managed to make it worse.
Odd take.We don't have the players for it, it must be obvious by now.
Imagine being a United fan thinking we will reach top 5 next season with Dalot and Dorgu at WB.
Weekday vs weekend may have something to do with it. I was in the office Thursday and missed the match. Would not be surprised if other fans from the western hemisphere were in the same boat.Surprise, surprise, all the posters who went missing after Bilbao, are back with full force.
You can. 38 games is a really small sample size and the variance in football is huge.
Two or three teams are a bit better and the bottom three teams are much worse. The rest are much of a muchness and a few injuries or a bit of good or bad luck away from either 6th or 16th.
Forest also a good example of a side massively outperforming all reasonable metrics. They hardly have any possession. They hardly have any shots. They concede loads of shots on their own goal. I would be flabbergasted if they're top six next season. In fact, I would say more likely 14th than top 6 (with the current squad, obviously than can change if they spend £300m!)
Or maybe we were simply happy with what was a really important win and didn’t want to waste a happy moment complaining, crazy I know.Weekday vs weekend may have something to do with it. I was in the office Thursday and missed the match. Would not be surprised if other fans from the western hemisphere were in the same boat.
How many of them changed systems mid season and how many of the managers have had at least one summer window to put a team together?
Context.
The truth is we made huge mistake to sack Ole! Rangnick is not a choice for head coach but his opinion on what to improve is great.Well we're definitely at the point where anyone who thinks Amorim deserves a second season needs to explain why Rangnick didn't deserve the same, since Rangnick objectively performed much better.
Potter?! feck offEmery, Howe, Frank, Potter, Nuno and Silva. Can anyone make a serious case that Amorim is a better PL manager than of them? This is the depths of mediocrity we are at as a club and what supporters are prepared to accept. Sad times.
John Murtough and Richard Arnold were so weak they caved in to the pressure from ETH and got rid of Ragnick by paying his 2 years salary which i find it very strange, we lost close to 10 millions there for nothing instead of using Ralf's experience, the idea of giving him 2.5 years contract was to use him as a DOF in last 2 years, imagine what he could have done with 600M in 3 years.Rangnick was never going to be the full time manager - the idea was that he would stay on as consultant, but ETH nixed that idea if you believe the press.
That makes sense too. After a good performance / result there's not much debate, because everyone generally is happy. There's more back-and-forth with a negative result - reckon the same applies to most of the player performance threads.Or maybe we were simply happy with what was a really important win and didn’t want to waste a happy moment complaining, crazy I know.
It would really suck, and it would hurt us significantly financially and in the transfer market, but that's about it IMO.
For me, a one-off match should never on its own define whether a manager is the right person to take us forward or not.
If he can't improve the results with 200 million than he has to go. I don't expect a title challenge but we should be up there in the top 5.$200 mil will likely get us 4 players. You think Amorim will be able to turn it around if he got 4 new players? Let alone title winning, you think we can get top 4 playing his current style with just our summer recruitment?
I think if he tweaks/changes his system then there are chances we see improvement. If we are just relying on summer recruitment, we will be in for the same rude shock as with Eth.If he can't improve the results with 200 million than he has to go. I don't expect a title challenge but we should be up there in the top 5.
Which is why Ineos should be looking at replacements to come in if Amorim doesn’t win Europa as not being able to win the weakest Europa in years due to no CL teams dropping down added to our disgusting domestic season means he should be out of a job and it should be accepted as a disaster that didn’t work at all.It would really suck, and it would hurt us significantly financially and in the transfer market, but that's about it IMO.
For me, a one-off match should never on its own define whether a manager is the right person to take us forward or not.
Then the kitchen should have split up with Berrada doing what he’s meant to do in his Gill/Woodward role on the business side of the club and Ashworth being in charge of everything on the actual football side of things with Wilcox reporting to both, Ineos allowed the business chief to overrule the football chief and make decisions the business side should never be allowed to do which is going to end up being the fourth massive mistake Ineos have made with the third being if Amorim is kept on if United don’t win Europa and the fourth when they DO fire Amorim before Christmas when things don’t change.On Ashworth: Suspect it was a matter of two many cooks in the kitchen. Having Berada, Ashworth, and Wilcox all simultaneously involved was a recipe for inevitable tension and conflict. The hiring and sacking of Ashworth and retention of EtH are two massive mistakes INEOS have made in less than a year.
He has done nothing outside Portugal which has a weak league. Hiring such a manager is a huge gamble and then he wants to change our system. Huge huge gamble. But also very symptomatic of us, so much incompetence. Manager, scouts, DOF, CEO, owners.Emery, Howe, Frank, Potter, Nuno and Silva. Can anyone make a serious case that Amorim is a better PL manager than of them? This is the depths of mediocrity we are at as a club and what supporters are prepared to accept. Sad times.
Every manager we hired would want to change the systemHe has done nothing outside Portugal which has a weak league. Hiring such a manager is a huge gamble and then he wants to change our system. Huge huge gamble. But also very symptomatic of us, so much incompetence. Manager, scouts, DOF, CEO, owners.
I mean surely it holds some merit here?
Amorim was handed a squad that was recognised by essentially everyone to be in dire straits, and has thus far had one senior player added to it.