The best thing about the past 12+ years is that every year in August, I think to myself “There’s no way United could be funnier than last season, it just isn’t possible”, and without fail, every single year, they absolutely are.
A poster over on’t 'caf last year made a post that said something like “Imagine if during the Moyes era, someone from the future told you there would be six worse eras to follow”. Their comical ineptitude has been rib-destroying for well over a decade at this point.
Poor guy is talking out of sync, he doesn’t know what time of day it is…we don’t realise the damaging psychological effects being a Utd manager holds, this poor soul lost his job and dignity tonight…I hope he gets the help he needs. In Amorim I trust.
I took it as meaning that the United team essentially can’t or don’t want to play for him. I can’t see him lasting much longer at all. He has no confidence that the team can do what he is asking of them. Those comments indicate a complete breakdown of the relationship between manager and team.
Speaking of Jose here’s a quote from him from some years back
“And then you also have those coaches who try to do things that just don’t work, and because of that they die, but they say 'I died but I died by my ideas. My friend, if you died by your ideas you are stupid.”
Felt to me more like he’s giving up and prepared to walk away at this point. When he kept saying “The players spoke loudly, they showed tonight what they want”, I took it to mean that he believes the players don’t want him anymore.
We as Liverpool fans went through a lot in the years from 91 through 2016, but by far the lowest ebb was the Roy Hodgson era, which thankfully only lasted six months. I’m not sure if we can definitively say that he lost the players or the dressing room, or that players downed tools. I think with him he was just out of his depth and wrong for the club. My point is that we NEVER had to deal with the level of toxicity that United have been dealing with since Fergie left, players, managers, front-office brass, etc. Just a shitty nest of self-absorbed hapless cunts, stabbing each other in the back at every turn. We had lows, to be sure, and the Souness era will never be looked back upon with fondness, but despite all of that, we never lost our identity as a club, and we never fostered the kind of radioactive environment that has been allowed to fester at the Old Toilet. Reminder - since being promoted with Shankly in 62, we have never finished outside of the top 8 in English football. They’ll never sing that.