It's still all a bit surreal. I've been more ardently "Amorim out" than any other manager post-SAF. Maybe it's a generational thing, maybe it's a personality thing, but Amorim just seemed so incredibly immature, so incredibly naive, and just incredibly annoying and petulant. The dramatic staring away during key points of a match, the covering his eyes during penalties, the "worst united team ever", the "sometimes I hate my kids", the "I would leave for free" threats, threatening to quit multiple times, the smashing up a TV with tears in his eyes, "the pope won't make me change formation". etc, etc. No surprise it ended up with a petulant, emotional meltdown. I'll never understand how people thought he had any charisma, charm, or was even remotely ... likeable. He made Mourinho and van Gaal at their cringeworthiest seem pretty far more likeable to me. So, good riddance. I think for anyone who has had to manage someone like this at work, the "I'm so much smarter than everyone else, I'll quit if you don't appreciate my talent, everyone around me sucks" type employee, you just have to cut bait. If anything, the club gave him WAAAAAY TOO MUCH time and rope. Eventually, he hung himself with it. They always do. And, as far as I know he didn't give up his compensation (they never do). They all talk a big game, and always end up going out like a punk b*itch. You know the type. He's got his box of personal belongings, walking out the door escorted by a security officer, smirking and proclaiming how he's a martyr and standing on principle, meanwhile his former coworkers are planning a happy hour after work to fecking celebrate they don't have to work with that wanker again, and making sure they blacklist whatever company foolishly hires him on LinkedIn.
I know, too, that some smart arse will pop up saying, "well, remember when Klopp did this, or Guardiola did that, or SAF this, or Wenger kicked the water bottle, or whoever did whatever..." Bullshit. If Amorim accomplished a quarter of what Klopp, Guardiola, SAF or Wenger did, we wouldn't be having a discussion now. He'd still be here. His legacy is shit results, coupled with petulance. He's the bratty nephew you fecking despise. You know that nephew. The one who comes over, and somehow damages your lawn sprinkler system that you know will cost you 150 quid to get fixed, and afterwards instead of apologising, starts to proclaim how good he is at fecking Fortnite. Whilst you glare your sister, fuming.
As for the club, well, they should rightly castigated for not getting rid sooner. However, they tried, and tried, and tried again to support him and keep him onside. But you can't. You can't keep someone like that onside. I'd have cut him loose after the Europa League final. Grimsby was another flashing bright red flag. Everton, well, just another. Then Wolves. If anything, the club were way too patient, way too understanding.
I have nothing to say on Solksjaer, Carrick, Fletcher, or whoever... except to say, I'd bet my house they'll be more adult and mature. The only good thing I can say is that the club finally acted.
