Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

Regardless of who the manager is we have 6 fixtures in the next month and I really cannot see us winning many of them with the panel as it is at the moment.

Afcon players probably won’t be back so we really need a few of those injured back playing.

I guess the best case if everything fell right for us would be Alonso, looks like he will get eaten up by the Madrid machine and spat out at some stage.

Kiernan McKenna probably deserves a shot at a premier league job at some stage and he would have the 'united dna' and plays the right way, etc etc.

Slow start to the season at ipswhich this season with a big player turnover but has turned things around, will most likely get another promotion and they played the league leaders Coventry off the park the other night.

Kompany and to a lesser extent Masacera have shown the step up to a bigger job is possible from the championship

Others have mentioned glasner but if he stick to his 3atb and plays games with casamerio rcb, mainoo at wing back and sesko as a 10 not sure he will keep the fans backing very long

Different levels

2 points off 4th is it? Can't imagine there is any thoughts at all about moving him on naturally.

When Bruno does lament missed passes he gets berated for whining and people start fantasising about him going to Saudi.

TBH, assuming the next 19 games go like the last 62 games there will be no grounds to extend Amorim's contract. At this point, I really cant see him being the manager in August 2026. Maybe the club promised Amorim they would sign him wingbacks back in 2024 and screwed him over, but we are where we are.

Real Madrid would have sacked Amorim 12 months ago when the results were already bad: 7 points from 8 PL games bad. He is already a lame duck. It is just a question if the club doubles down on him, or cuts their losses and trusts their long term planning can recover it.

First bit sums up my thoughts.

You can make arguments either way about sacking him now. I'd certainly be leaning towards the sack side of that debate.

But I don't think you can make any kind of an argument for giving him a new contract which is basically what the club would need to do in the summer rather than having a lame duck manager winding down his final year.

And I don't see them doing that unless we improve dramatically and make the Europa League. Especially after extending ETH only to fire him soon after.

If we're not in Europe come May, which means we fall away rather than even continuing at our current pace, then they'll mutually agree a termination and bring in someone else.

Glasner remains the most likely in my view.

You're right that we aren't RM and haven't been close to them for a long time. But I already accepted that when I said RM would have sacked Amorim 12 months ago, while we have doubled down on him into 25/26.

This is very rose tinted.....

Do you honestly think the players that have been bought since INEOS have gotten involved have themselves improved since arriving?

The squad isn't a title winning squad, but the greatest trick Amorim pulled was convincing the world that his team is far worse than it actually is.

Simple fact, Ole and Ten Hag finished top 4 without any De Ligts, Mbuemo's or Cunhas. Ten Hag was a dead man walking for finishing 8th with Onana and Hojlund.

I do not accept at all that there isn't a CL qualifying team there. Said it many times, but the vast majority of PL managers would wet themselves if you handed them Mbueno, Bruno, Amad, Cunha, Casemiro, De Ligt and asked them to pick a team.

It has been the red flag right from the start of this whole saga, why is he not performing better than what was supposed to be some of the worst managers we ever had…