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

I like your thinking!

It's really bad form that RA didn't release a statement thanking fans etc for their support while he was there. Because he did largely have the fans support even though things weren't going great. I thought he might be waiting until the season was over to release something after the dust had settled.

Or, am I wrong and did he actually release one that I've missed.?

I'm not saying this as a grammar nazi… but non-plussed means the exact opposite of how you are using it (and how I was using til i read it in a book recently, it made zero sense in context, and i looked it up).

Non-plussed is confused, not knowing how to react or what to say.

My mind was blown!

No statement just a massive grin for the cameras

Like clockwork.. 🤣

"My time at Manchester United was difficult because from the start I felt the club never fully backed me. They brought me in because of my ideas and philosophy, but when it was time to be patient and support the project, that trust disappeared.

You cannot ask a manager to rebuild a team and then expect miracles in a few months. Every successful project needs time, support, and belief from the people above. Unfortunately, I didn't feel I was given enough of any of those things.

The club wanted immediate results while I was trying to build something for the future. When things became difficult, instead of standing behind the process, they started questioning it.

I accept my mistakes, but I also believe I deserved more time and more backing to show what this team could have become.

But that's all in the past now. I have no bitterness towards Manchester United and I genuinely wish the club the very best going forward. I'm also proud and excited to be back managing one of the biggest clubs in the world.

We will meet again during pre-season, and it will be nice to see familiar faces, reconnect with people at the club, and enjoy a good football occasion. Football moves fast, but the respect will always remain."

Terms of his compensation agreement more than likely He probably due only partial value of his contract if he took another job within a year of been sacked.

Seems a good choice for a manager who likes to build a team and system slowly, there aren't high expectations so any improvement will be welcomed, much better job choice then ten hagg per say who went to Leverkusen and was destined for failure

It's a head start that Milan mostly played 3 at back last season anyway. I'd say he will do well there.

He's pretty bang on with what he's said there to be fair.

He's clearly very hurt by how things transpired in the end. I wonder was he placed on NDA hence why we've heard nothing until now.

That statement from Amorim ties in perfectly with the idea that the job was just too big for him and he didn't really know what he had got himself into.

I am all for patience and time, you will be hard pressed to find a post of mine where I called for a manager to be sacked but the fact is, when you are in the premier league the run of the mill games are just so tough that it is just impossible to do the type of rebuild he is talking about.

Maybe at Sporting they win half their games by default and you can be tinkering away and even if you put out a novel formation you will still rack up the points just because you are so much better quality wise than the opposition.

But in the Premier league, you start messing around too much and you end up finishing 15th and that's just not going to fly. And you finish 15th at the biggest club in the world and you are going to start to feel the heat from fans and media and you better be able to handle that, which is another spot where he fell down.

Also mentioned in that article about Summerville.

With 24 months left on his contract, NOW is the time to sell or we end up with another Sancho situation where he runs down his contract.

Nobody was demanding "immediate results" or "miracles", its just more gaslighting from Amorim.

Underlying data my arse, the results were bad, the performances were muck, no players were improving, simple fact is that Amorim got far more time than he deserved and yet still has the cheek to complain about it. Very on brand for the guy who told his own players that they were the worst squad in the clubs history.