Recent content by stepic

  1. NBA 2024-2025

    Was hoping it would be the Spurs, Flagg and Wemby would have been nasty.

  2. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    He’s simply doing what he did with Sporting. It worked for them. If the club wanted some kind of ‘bridging the gap’ manager then they signed the wrong manager. Amorim was very clear to everyone what he would do. This is why he won’t get sacked - the club were told this would happen.

  3. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    No one is saying it’s just through training. Literally everyone is saying signings are also needed. Come on.

  4. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    Amorim’s second season at Sporting Pep and Klopp’s second seasons respectively. All of these also entailed signing players suited to their systems. Signings, coupled with time to embed their ideas, all resulted in improved second seasons. I’m sure there are countless others.

  5. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    No club or system is ever destined to win the league, so you can cut out the strawmanning, but given pretty every team besides maybe Leicester since we last won the league has done so based on a progressive, possession based attacking system, you can see why the club has decided to go down this...

  6. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    Liverpool have the second highest possession in the league and in attack they play a 325. One of the fullbacks (Trent) inverts into midfield, one of the pivots drops deeper to form the 3, Szoboszlai pushes forward with the attacking fullback and their front 3 to form an attacking 5. It’s...

  7. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    I’m sure other managers would get a better tune out of this squad if they played to their strengths. But playing to the strengths of this squad will never win us a title, it’ll make us some mid table team going nowhere at best. The club has chosen to go in a different direction, and we have to...

  8. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    Most of them aren’t good enough to play the system Amorim, and the club, wants - is the point.

  9. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    He’s been brought in specifically to change the way we play though. Until we have the players that can do it, we will struggle. But we’ve been needing a different subset of player for a long, long time.

  10. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    How many of those have been consistently injury free under Amorim? Yoro (up until now), Maz, Bruno, and Dorgu although he only came in January. Eriksen is old and can’t play a full 90. The rest have missed large chunks. And we still lack a proper forward. It’s simple: we need more technical...

  11. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    It’s the way we need to play if we ever want to compete for the title and CL, yes. What would you rather, just keep plugging away with counter attacking football like the Forests of the world?

  12. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    You’re preaching to the choir mate.

  13. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    Of those only Amad, Bruno and Yoro have been regular starters for us when fit. So that’s 3 starters. The answer others will give is that we should be playing to the (non-technical) strengths of the rest of the squad. But that wasn’t what Amorim was brought in to do. And that would be taking the...

  14. Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur | Europa League final build-up thread (May 21st)

    Agreed all round. I’m hoping the recent selections of Cas and Ugarte together was more because we didn’t have Amad available. Now that he will be starting, hopefully as one of the 10s, it can free up Bruno to sit further back. We look much better when he’s in that position.

  15. Ruben Amorim - Manchester United Head Coach | Locked during matches

    To those who think the squad isn’t as bad as some of us suggest, how many of our players are technically competent enough to play a possession based, progressive system?
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