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

Yeah, this is how i see it. I think he was told there will be no signings in January, and that is the root of the issue.

If he was sacked today I couldn't really defend him based on his record and how we play.

But, if the club have told him they won't look to improve the squad I think it paints the hierarchy terribly.

It is supposed to be a club plan - our vision is supposed to be somewhat agnostic - and yet we aren't going to improve the squad because of concern over the manager? If we sacked Amorim today are we really asking this new manager to also make do with Casemiro and Bruno as the only two CMs the club trusts? Are we telling him to make Zirkzee a start attacker?

IMO it doesn't matter who the manager is, we need players, and the players we need aren't particulary dependent on Amorim. If we changed to a 433, and we bring Mainoo in, our bench options are Urgarte? (with Mount or Bruno at 10)? We have Casemiro, Urgarte and Mainoo for two positions. 1 of which has been poor most of his United career. 1 of which will likely leave in the summer. and the last, Mainoo, isn't happy and has been looking to leave - that might change if Amorim is gone but even if it does it means we have ONE midfielder we are somewhat happy with after the summer? Sure, we might want Baleba or Anderson - and maybe we have to wait til the summer (to fail to convince them…) but signing them won't be enough.

IMO you could be looking at 8/9 positions that need to be signed over the next two windows, and we aren't going to do all of that in the summer. We HAVE to do some of that now. We are not in a position where we can afford to let transfer windows just pass us by. And if Wilcox thinks we are - my head is on the damned moon.

Whether anyone is Amorim in, or Amorim out, the actions of Berrada and Wilcox are incredibly worrying, imo. To the point I think they are being more harmful to the long term project than Amorim is.

Looks like he could possibly go today. Briefs are starting that they’ll meet this morning. He’s gone into massive favourite to be next manager sacked.

Definitely don't want to rip things up again and Amorim's record can't be defended. But while it can't be defended, I think it should be looked at in two separate phases. Last year was a complete disaster, he walked into a mess and probably made it worse for a period. This year has seen an improvement despite no level of consistency.

That said, if the brains trust had signed him a player like Watkins (which it seems he was really pushing) rather than signing Hojlund 2.0, I'm fairly certain we would be sitting in a comfortable 4th in the PL. An extra 4,5,6 points minimum from a striker who can score is not fanciful imo.

I think the rift between Amorim and the brains trust started to fester ("FESTER") from that and blew over when he felt they weren't backing him / started listening to Gary Neville.

As much as I have my doubts about Amorim, I'm in his corner. I've been very skeptical about Ineos from day 1, being slightly better than than Glazers was a low bar, and I think they've appointed a spoofer as DoF.

Extremely disappointed with the handling of everything by the United hierarchy.

No faith in their ability to lead United forward anymore.

Yeppp

Club is a fcuking basket case!

And yet there he goes! Whatever your individual views on if it’s deserved or not. He was essentially gone as United manager after that press conference. There was no way back.

already talk we will wait to the summer for the permenent appointment.

so we are gonna have fletcher and whatever random assortment of coaches we can find.

and we are going to sign no one because (1) who would sign for us without a manager (2) who would sign for us without a plan and (3) we will say we don't want to spend money the next manager will need.

This sacking has torpedoed any chance we had for this season, imo. Its only going to get worse, imo.

We didn't have the squad, now we don't have a manager and zero ambition to improve the squad.

An absolute disaster, and imo shows that there is zero reason to have faith this United hierarchy will every create a winning environment.

Disgraceful from the club. Complete mess.

No new appointment expected until the summer! Great

Burnley, Arsenal, City and Fulham this month. I still don't see us picking up more than 3 points from those games. As others have said, a change in manager is going to make **** all difference to us really. Is Fletcher going to get our win rate over 40%? I doubt it. More so, it seems Amorim was sacked for having a go at the bosses, not his actual results.

This club is such a **** mess.

He had to go….he wasn't up to it. Although the club at the top is a mess

He survived finishing 15th but gets booted while 6th.