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

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This reeks of cost-cutting/cheaping out. This is time to do business and we'll probably waste a week or 2 "looking" for a new manager then give that manager "time" to "evaluate" his squad and not "rush" into transfers.

Therefore great excuse not to make signings and spend transfer fees on midfielders. Fantastic.

Payday for sure, but I don't know about holding his head high. He's been a laughing stock for some time now, throwing his toys out of the pram every chance he got. He tried throwing the players under the bus after the Grimsby game and it didn't work. He decided to go after his superiors this time, shamelessly trying to force their hand to sack them and it worked. He won't get another too job in Europe again - he's too emotionally fragile and unstable. We're talking about a grown man who can't even watch his team take penalties FFS.

Christmas came late for a number of posters on here. Absolute shambles when you consider Amorim only had 1 real transfer window last summer which was our best in years, we are 3 points away from top 4 at halfway stage and are missing 8 first team players.

He has had to deal with the bomb squad posinious players like Rashford who will now think he can come back with his usual attitude. We have been building something at Old Trafford, completely transformed our attack and now needed time to bring in more players to improve.

Did fans and pundits alike really think we would be challenging for honours this season?

Hope Amorim does well elsewhere im sure he will. Meanwhile we are left again with another interim manager and god knows who will take over and what their vision will be seeing as it is clear there is no money in January

Jesus Christ I've made the mistake of putting Sky Sports News on and they have a Utd "fan" on and hes saying get the champagne out and get Maresca in as interim manager. The **** is wrong with these people. How is this on tv?

It's not that we are in 6th as some will point out that got him sacked in my opinion. We are also just 4 points above 14th which given his inability to win football matches is ultimately his undoing. His win ratio in the premier league was around 1 in 3 which is simply not good enough to be manager of Manchester united. He also, in my opinion had far to much to say for himself in press conferences and with the media and we always seemed to be going from one crisis to another, either on or off the pitch. When you see the job some other managers are doing with much more limited resources and budgets then you have to come to the conclusion that he just isn't a very good manager. Maybe there are other issues in the background but ultimately most of this season he had a full squad to pick from and you couldn't say the performances were inspiring.

I wanted it to work out but it was a hard watch most of the time. Ultimately 3-4-3 needs to be binned along with the manager. The United DNA is attacking football and we need to get back to that and not the dross we have been watching.

Mainoo’s injury might have cleared up by Wednesday 👀

Remember, Ashworth was sacked largely because of his resistance to Amorim's appointment and he's probably walking around with an 'I told you so' grin on his face this morning. I just can't shake the feeling that this is just going to be another merry-go-round and that the next manager will be appointed on how compliant they are, not on their successes.

Pretty dejected about the whole thing really. Not about Amorim per se as by results alone he can have no real complaints. Problem is that the sacking doesn't seem to be about results. The club doesn't seem to have a clue of what it wants to do, it feels like there is no coherency to any of it. Any good faith I had for Ineos has been eroded.

Feels like it'll be a Rangnick half season of crap now until May as everyone will wait until the next proper appointment is made, whoever that will be.

I feel the club can't be properly successful until there is a proper ownership change. This halfway house Ineos model feels like a complete waste of time.

exactly right. Fletch should order Bruno and Mainoo to play injuries be damned. Its only nepotism that have left the Fletchers (and Mantato and Lacey) in the last 4-5 matchday squads.

I'd say he has been walking around like that since about a week after Amorim was appointed to be fair