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

There has to be interim talk or else why get rid of Amorim. Ive mentioned that talks to other couches need yo happen it get someone else in tull end of season

Amorim is showing hes stuck in his ways and it doesn't work.

Unless he changes now which he wont by history, he's too stubborn on something that doesnt work so he's above should be looking qt what's available.

I reckon they've gone heavy deep with Amorim as the guy they won't save face 5i sack him.

Was only last week him said Amorim needs to get CL football it hes gone.

All pure shite, we are a disaster

How is 2nd and 3rd a failure especially considering our finishes of late?

Ineos have failed spectacularly in every single sporting project they have tried and are in the process of failing again here. I'd say the only reason Amorim is still there is so they can blame him when this season is another failure. There will be a new guy in after the November international break but then he will have the excuse that this season is a write off. Amorim should have been sacked last January, but it's time for Wilcox and Berrada to go with him now too

If the reports of the 12 million compensation are true, it's possible INEOS might have decided to wait until the early November to sack him, so they don't have to pay him all that. The club play 5 more games before he's been manager for a year, so things could be fairly grim by then.

I think the story about the payoff details might have come from The Mail. So the chances are those figures aren't correct anyway. I'm just trying to think of some sort of logical reason why he's still in place. He should have been sacked weeks ago

I thought that Amorim was employed as a head coach, not a manager, and would be technically accomplished enough to coach whatever system is required by the directorate. I thought this was a sensible approach after ETH ran the transfer show and bought the wrong players at huge cost. I just dont get why the club allows RA to be so inflexible unless he's doing so under the instruction of the club. The next coach should be that; able to utilise multiple systems and correct imbalances on the pitch with the correct substitutions. I'm fukn sick of 'philosophy' managers, I just want someone in who can get the best from the players and can set up a team to our strengths.

That's most likely just code for the fact they have no plan B ready to go. No surprise, it's not straightforward. As said before, it's so easy to say he has to go when you're sitting on the sidelines but the logistics of how and who you replace him with is complicated. It's much easier to hold him in place and express confidence until you have a plan.

They have nothing to gain from briefing that the manager is in danger (and a refusal to comment when asked would equate to that because they have responded with briefs that they confidence in him up until this point).

Was it Lausanne and Nice they were over and didn’t improve either?

It will be next to impossible for INEOS to keep him in place for much longer, if there's no improvement. If by some chance they did, and the club finished the season hovering about the relegation zone, the fans won't just be looking for the manager to go. They'll want Brexit Jim and co. out the door too.

But I'd say a hammering by Liverpool, or anyone else, in the near future, and he'll be gone. He should be gone already, but it looks like INEOS have no plan for what to do, if and when they do get rid of him. They've got their biggest decisions badly wrong since taking over.

This is a different situation to Solskjaer and ETH.

With Solskjaer, it was natural that Carrick/McKenna would caretake for a few weeks. RVN was an obvious bridge after ETH was sacked.

Amorim is different - most of us don't even know who his assistant is. There's no obvious internal caretaker. Fletcher maybe? But can we really just pull him out of the U-18s coaching setup like that?

Bringing Ole or Carrick in for a week or two would be an insult so that's not viable. May as well keep Amorim until the permanent manager is selected instead of going through that.

It's not actually that easy when you stretch your brain and put yourself into the position of having to make these decisions and be accountable for them.