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

Signing Sesko another young prospect was criminal imo, Amorim wanted an experienced striker like Wilkins.

Heres the bbc write up

"I know that my name is not [Thomas] Tuchel, it's not [Antonio] Conte, it's not [Jose] Mourinho, but I'm the manager of Manchester United. And it's going to be like this for 18 months or when the board decides to change.

"I'm not going to quit. I will do my job until another guy is coming here to replace me."

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c1m7lmnnev0o

Surely the end - seems to be saying he wouldn't want to stay at the end of his contract no matter what happens, so the project is over essentially and he's putting the board under pressure to act or change tack. Fair play to Amorim for calling it out, if they are putting the squeeze on him. Can't blame managers these days when it is such a knife edge job

I kinda agree with you. It has been ****, but it's what we needed in a way, gut the squad and try to start fresh. Obviously there's been **** results, but there's a massive reset going on. Getting rid of alot of problem players and trying to build a whole new squad. And there are alot of good players added. Every manager since Carrick retired have struggled with midfield. That's on the club. Give amorim a proper midfield and I really think he will succeed.

It's not like previous managers where more players were just added for the craic by Woodward, while keeping the same **** ones that were already there.

To be fair, I don't think he's been given enough leeway for missing all the players we currently are! No team could preform properly missing that amount of starters. We're still 5th in the table. Arsenal stuck with arteta when alot of people were questioning it. And they've built a proper squad.

I'm prepared to see where this goes too with amorim for another while....

And the comments about Neville I've no problem with. Neville, along with utd supporters nowadays, need to realise how luck we were to have had that golden period with Ferguson. Neville himself doesn't seem like a player that would've survived the abuse some of the players nowadays take. He was lucky to have many other stronger characters around him to stick up for him, ie, the Keane Vieira bust up in the tunnel. Ex players like him are part of the problem driving the media narrative. They're everywhere talking about how great it was in their dressing room back in the day and current players wouldn't have survived. But plenty of them were very lucky to be riding that Ferguson wave too. Not saying Neville wasn't a great player, but without those leaders around him he's not one I would be looking to back me up in a scrap. 😂

Amorim leaving now and no transfers in writes off the entire season as pointless.

Exactly, fair play.

If Amorim is complaining about not being the ‘manager’ in the ETH sense of ‘I want to sign all my mates’ then he needs to go today. We can never allow that madness of managers picking players again.

However, if he has actually been told by Jason Wilcox what formation to play then we are a dumpster fire. Imagine trying to hire our next manager when he knows he may not get to pick his own formation when results go wrong. Scary stuff.

I agree, I don’t know how anyone could interpret his comments as him wanting out. It was the total opposite as far as I can see, he looked like a man fighting his corner and calling out the people hiding behind fancy titles and who never have to answer for the big calls they make behind the scenes.

I think it would be a huge mistake not to stick with Amorim. For the first time in a long time, there’s an actual system in place and a clear player profile for every position. Yes, it’s going to take serious money to properly build that system, but sacking him now just resets everything again. We’d be straight back to aimlessly signing players that don’t fit any long-term plan.

In a very recent interview he talked about signing process and said they are all involved and was essentially happy with that, he said he would never be given a player he didn't want was the height of his power. Not saying it's impossible for him to have changed his mind but it just doesn't seem like it's about him not having control over transfers

And il really not looking forward to the media circus thats bound to follow Amorims comments. As I said what sounded like our managers normal total honesty is already being framed as “ Amorim wsnts out “ or “ is it all over for Amorim after extraordinary comments “.

I know any bit of ambiguity gets spun into a full blown crisis when it comes to United but it’s exhausting and so predictable you’d get tired of it. Not to mention the fun it’s going to cause on here.

Agreed, to say he’s in no position to speak up for himself is just a silly comment in my opinion. Is he supposed to just sit there quietly when it looks like Wilcox has badly overstepped on interfering with his methods or the way he’s doing his job? He showed balls today and I’d be disappointed if he didn’t stand up for himself.

The problem for Amorim is that that can’t be used as an excuse because we weren’t winning too many with them there.

Ps for those who think Glasner is next (and I think the same) I wonder if this outburst would factor into his decision.

He's had his differences with the board at Palace, threatened to walk over their transfer decisions, so would he want to walk into United given Wilcox's performance in this respect?