Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 26.09.24

I can see big Jimbo pulling the trigger later this evening or tomorrow on Ruben. As bad and all as the results are, he can't coach, simple as.

As for who will replace him, I think they will go for Southgate, in a caretaker position at the very least, with Ashworth having a rye smirk somewhere.

Few options available at the moment. Would be madness to bring any ex managers back.

You go and take a manager from a club. Just like we did with Amorim. Glasner or Iraola, or just anyone who’s not a complete stubborn amateur.

A manager like Keith Andrews can set up a mediocre Brentford team to win comfortably against us. Amorim has refused to adapt to his opposition at every turn and exposed our weaknesses every game. I think he knows the writing is on the wall. If we get beaten by Sunderland I think he'll be sacked.

The basics of the job interview needs to be:

1) Do you think Bruno Fernandes is a central midfielder?

If they manage to say no to that they are overqualified.

I do like the idea of a competent manager playing

------Mainoo---------Casemiro--------

Mbeumo------Bruno---—--Cunha

-----------------Sesko---------------—

Interim sounds more practical. Maybe they'll approach Ole?

While they're at it, Ineos should swallow their pride and try and get Dan Ashworth back. Because they are clearly clueless and have got almost every big decision wrong

Would you go for an Interim manager or take a risk on a new permanent one?

If you wait until the Summer you might get someone like Enrique. Signing an Interim manager leaves open that option. But Interim managers can work out very bad (Ragnick) so there's no guarantee that that option would be better than holding onto Amorim. These are the questions that the hierarchy will have to grapple with, it's not as easy as saying just sack him. I really hope they do have a contingency plan in place - they acted quick with ETH last season.

For now though I think we're at the stage where Amorim has absolutely no choice but to roll the dice and change his way of playing next week.

I don’t think we know on the squad. You hope it’s better and this is a manager issue but we’re guessing.

Of the back 5 only Yoro you’d be confident will be here in 3 years…and he’s seemingly lost his place in a formation made for him.

Midfield Mainoo is the only on youd be confident has a future and he’s barely played in a year and been poor when he has

up front we’ve spent 200m on 3 new lads, all of whom have underperformed expectations. There’s a huge risk this squad needs complete binning.

Rangnick won more league games and more points for United than Amorim has. In less games obviously.

If that was "very bad", then…

love rubens interview, cleared up a lot of the issues about the performance

I'd be interested to know if Ancellotti could be poached away from Brazil.

Regardless, there is nothing wrong with just appointing a solid interim manager when the current one is so clearly failing.

There are lots of managers that would wet themselves at the chance to take over that squad.

What the hell is he doing with his head in his hands hiding in the dugout while we have a pen away to BRENTFORD ffs, is he not able for the pressure or what

Anyway,its not lasting much longer

Amorim seems a nice guy and is a competent coach but it has not worked for whatever reasons at Utd. He has to take the blame. Week in week out we are outplayed by any competent team that sets themselves up and knows what they are doing. Despite all his time on the training ground the players don't seem to have a clue how they are set-up. Then when that doesn't work he just empties the bench and nobody including the players have any idea what they are doing. Just hoping for a moment of magic or a mistake to pull us through. It's not enough. How can a team of individually talented players look less than the sum of their parts every single match. Buck stops with him.

Not being funny here, but I would say there are many good coaches around who would disagree with you.

Put your tinfoil hat on…

Does anybody think this manager is trying to get sacked? Would he be compensated getting sacked better than if he left by his own accord?

I just can’t fathom how or why he hasn’t changed tact. He’s insisting on his formation despite it not working. Surely he should be reflecting on this with his team every week and acknowledge it’s not working and he has to change something.

If anyone is in employment, and you weren’t fulfilling your duties and providing the results for your employer, you’d look to improve. No? Yet this guy doesn’t.

I just don’t get it?

Him or Iraola for me