He doesn’t want him to go but thinks based on his post-match comments there’s a chance he’ll walk.
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It’s stage 3 of the Goldbridge Grief cycle.
- Blame players
- Blame owners
- Defend Manager
- Blame Manager.
- Sack manager
- Defend Players
Rince and Repeat/
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He has to choose between saving his sanity/dignity and reaping an undeserved windfall.
Such a tough choice. I’m sure the millions he’ll get will be worth whatever indignity he’s got to suffer through.
is a big consolation but considering his current miserable mental state, is it worth risking the loss of his marbles for a few further months, weeks or even days of abject desolation?
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I was tempted to say the reputational damage will be the last straw, but actually the damage there has probably already been done. Can anyone see another club hiring him after overseeing the worst United side in history?
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I do think he’ll get a chance again. Maybe for a club in Europe playing the Europa. ETH got the Bayer Leverkusen job.
He was the wrong manager for the wrong team at the wrong time. Only a small part of that is his fault. Bringing him in mid-season rather than with better planning was the biggest mistake. It also felt like he was forced to make the move at that time, or he wasn’t going to get the job. I’d say he’s due something for the stress of it all.
Pratman and Rubin
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Sean Dyche??? These numb-skulls are hilarious… 
I hope this circus keeps on rolling.
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The alternative take is he realizes his level and uses this experience to calibrate his career expectations and has a much happier life moving forward doing things that he’s capable of actually doing.
Utd is a toxic club that makes good players worse, but this guy was never the guy. It was honestly apparent after 10 games or so and there was conversation in this thread saying that very thing. And not just for the banter. All the mocking of Utd’s players for being shit…they are “shit” compared to the level Utd fans still expect, but that level of shit should put them somewhere around having an anemic and failed challenge for the last CL spot, not an outside shot at relegation. The guy is a fraud and he needs to reconsider what his station in the game is.
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BBC Livetext is completely out of order today, how dare they sully the name of the mighty Neil Warnock by comparing him to Amorim 
Amorim’s Premier League record equals Warnock
The Portuguese has won just seven of his 29 matches in charge, drawing seven and losing 15, and his Premier League win percentage of 24.1% is equal to that of Neil Warnock.
Warnock predominantly managed clubs that were battling relegation and the 76-year old won 27 of his 112 top-flight matches in charge of Sheffield United, Queens Park Rangers, Crystal Palace and Cardiff City.
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So United after whiskeynose have gone from
- Fergy’a handpicked replacement failing
- The tried and tested Dutch coach with experience of managing Barca failing
- The special one (toxic one) failing
- The club legend failing
- The highly rated gegenpress practitioner failing
- The new era Dutch coach failing
- The new fad coach with some new fangled ideas failing.
The only thing that’s left off that particular check list is to appoint an English coach. Someone like Dyche , Pardew , Allardyce or Southgate.
Finish that and they can then go back to step 1 again.
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Bring in Wayne Rooney as caretaker manager until the relegation is mathematically certain 
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Prevailing rumors today seem to be that Amorim will walk after the Burnley match, and Glasner is the favorite to replace him.
Glasner is a sound pragmatic coach. But it’s not like Palace really need to let him go.
I think with United you’ll find that the coaches who were brought into implement their particular system were the ones who failed the most (rangnick and Amorim)
I don’t think Amorim is a bad manager. Infact far from it. His problem is that he refuses to adapt. That tendency does tend to be not that big a factor if the club goes all in with the manager and supports him reasonably well.
United got Amorim into the team with a full motley crew of players brought under various managers. Those players are difficult to shift out. Forget bringing in the new players.
Managing this United team is very difficult. More so for a young manager. We’ve seen it before with villas boas as well (to a much lesser extent).
The club is rotten from the ground up. It needs a complete overhaul from the academy to the scouting apart from the first team.
I do think Amorim will get some sort of a coherent system happening. United do seem to pick themselves up for the bigger teams. Whether that will be enough to save him is another matter. But at this point , he’s looking burned out 3 games into the new season and that can’t be good for him.
There were several of us from very early on arguing the “he doesnt have the players he needs to suit his system” was a red herring. There was so little evidence for what his system was, so liitle coherence about how so many CL caliber players were so unsuited to it and what was needed in their place.
The reality was he had come to over rate the value of his brand of football and his special ability to implement it. And when he quickly found himself out of his depth the easy answer to turn to was that he didnt have the right type of players. But lets remember, Klopp, another “systems manager” turned a Liverpool side around with such square pegs in round holes like the relatively immobile Emre Can in a pressing midfield, Klavan playing in a high line, a hobbled Sturridge up top.
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Sure. But no one is saying he’s Klopp. Klopp came into the English game with a wealth of experience including getting Mainz up to the Bundesliga , then getting relegated with them as well (say this because the failure quite often builds character too). Getting Dortmund to be relevant in European football.
Amorim doesn’t have that experience. It’s not his fault. Neither is he as good a manager as Klopp. Not even close to.
But I’ve seen his sporting sides and also some limited play by his United team (when the players are arsed to perform) to know that he’s got ideas with him. It might be easier to implement those ideas with people like Milner , Henderson & Bobby more than it is to implement those ideas with overpaid divas like Bruno. Not to mention the other dross that United has accumulated over the years.