Definitely against Arsenal and I also think he's Amorim's preferred RWB unless we're chasing a game or he has to play elsewhere
Ruben Amorim | 2025-26
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Absolutely ok to play Quenda there in a league that outside 3 teams is probably weaker than the championship, up against PL opposition with proper FB and Wingers I am of the thinking you'd probably only get away with it if you can control the game and with Bruno in central midfield I mean I don't even want to start, it's fecking bizarre we've gone balls out for 2 numbers 10's when we have one of the best ones in the league in the team ready and just gone yeah the guy whose passing is around 76% can just go play in midfield.
I'm a staggered by this plan, if it works fair play but I really don't hold much hope.
I think the Mbeumo signing as well as the fact that Amad starts more often than not when fit and available indicates that Amad will get a lot of starts at RWB. More so in games where we expect to have more if the ball. Unless he plans to play a front three of Amad, Mbeumo and Cunha, of course.
Someone missed the City game
That City game was an objectively shit game of football we won at the end, for about 88 minutes it was garbage
This is my view as well. The 10s that Amorim wants need to play out wide and I’m not sure Bruno has that ability. The best thing that could have happened was a large offer from Saudi and the player turned it down. I’m sure we could have said the club needs the money and accepted the bid. Playing him in CM will be suicide and I’m expecting much of the same counter attack goals against us with a non-existent midfield. With Bruno in there most games will be a 3v1 in midfield as Bruno still thinks he playing as a CAM. I’ve enjoyed watching Bruno but with the new manager’s system it was the right time to move on.
The hope is with two quality 10s in front of him he will feel less of a need to try and do it all himself
David May:
Amorim always excused himself for not having a pre-season wo work his ideas. It's also understood that we need new players that will adapt better to Amorim's ideas. By the time new players arrive, the pre-season is over and Amorim will go on to say he didn't have a pre-season to work with the new players...
His system is so bad and makes our already average squad look worse than the sum of their parts. I'll be stunned if he's still here by Christmas.
Correct. The players are bad, but not as bad as they've been since Amorim has taken over.
Sorry but it’s not good enough. There’s no sign of improvement whatsoever. We can spend another £500m and he’ll still have us playing like shite. I’m not expecting top 8, just a sign of some style of play and cohesion.
Reckon he will be gone after 10 league games and we will be left with a squad with one winger in diallo.
Formation not working. 3 cb is Just bad
Cannot wait for the day he’s gone.
We’re practically unwatchable under his management.
He’s gonna leave us in a worse state than ETH.
We’re practically unwatchable under his management.
He’s gonna leave us in a worse state than ETH.
I always say, the smartest way to run a club is to completely freak out after the team looks rusty in the first pre-season friendly and sack the manager.
The time to sack him was in May obviously, now we are stuck with him for 6-10 months.
Starting to question him… I think we may have missed out massively by not going for Frank. He’s the type of guy that can handle a big club and plays a decent formation that would suit us
Nah. We dodged a bullet. We need to not hire shitty mid-table mangers who played counter-attacking football.
Keeping Bruno and not buying 2 top midfielders will haunt him
Once again, Bruno decided to stay. There’s nothing he can do about that.
He partly talked him into it
Once again this isn't true. Bruno openly said that he would leave "if the club wanted to cash in or something", Amorim said openly in press conferences that he kept telling Bruno to stay, That's firmly on him and the gutless cowards above him that should have overruled him.
not true, Bruno himself said he'd go if INEOS decided to sell because of the money situation. Ruben wanted to keep him
Amorim just has his 'favourites', like previous managers before him. That and his stubbornness to play a certain way without the players for it will be his downfall.... ego does that.
His formation & system just won’t work.
You think he'll last 6 months? I don't think he'll last till Nov. That Oct international break is his first hurdle. If this team is still the same they'll look for replacements by then. This board isn't afraid to look for replacements openly they've shown that with EtH
We could have told him the club are financially fecked and need the money to try influence the decision in our favour.
Instead we begged him to stay.
Instead we hire managers that have only shined in the Dutch league and Portuguese league. Spurs are finishing ahead of us with a mid table manager.. you can guarantee that
It doesn’t have to be either or. Unfortunately a properly good manager is not available. We’ll probably end up firing Amorim before Christmas and some other fecker will come in and inevitably fail. If the next manager doesn’t flop, I’ll eat my metaphorical hat.
Mbeumo is a winger.
I think it's madness to let him force Garnacho out of the club when he might not be in a job for much longer.
It’s very easy to play against United.
Putting aside any individual player, the team needs to learn how to play in different gears.
But that isn’t a reaction from today’s friendly, which was just a fitness exercise.
Putting aside any individual player, the team needs to learn how to play in different gears.
But that isn’t a reaction from today’s friendly, which was just a fitness exercise.
I've seen enough, give it to Moyseh until the end of the season
Please no.
It seems every manager has their favourite which is fine. If you single out that you want to sign 2 10s, tell me where do you want to play Bruno? If he pushes Bruno up to 10 position and start dropping Cunha or Mbeuno, Amorim deserve to be sack. We should let Bruno join the Saudi club and use to fund to buy a CM and striker. Ineos should have a serious discussion with Amorim when the bid was in. If money was spent without proper thought process, Amorim and other decision makers need to leave United.
We should have just waited for Enrique to finish with Spain and then do everything possible to tempt it. He’s probably one of the only managers that would succeed here
Ratcliffe and co don’t have a clue. We should have just sold to quataris
Looks like he’s just publicly begged for an athletic midfielder with some pace. At least we know he can see what we see.
Aye, this friendly is the only reason anyone is shitting it about his management.