I always enjoyed listening to Thomas Frank interviews, he always came across very well.
He was always relaxed and showed that he is an astute coach/manager who is very adaptable from a team set up and tactics point of view and I hoped he would do well at a bigger club.
Whereas, with Amorim I was a detractor from the beginning, in the PL you have to be adaptable as a team to succeed and a staunch 3 4 3 has limiting success. Opposition coaches soon work out the weaknesses and will setup accordingly and all that is not taking into account recruiting players for his system.
While I wouldnāt go as far as Gary Neville, I do see where he is coming from with regard to their game against Arsenal. They lost 1-0 but they went toe to toe and gave a good account of themselves.
They then followed it up with a draw at Fulham. Not great, but far from a disastrous result, as Fulham are a decent Prem side and only a few sides will get out of Craven Cottage with an away win.
The biggest puzzle for me is how mentally fragile Man Utd are, to be able to lose to Grimsby and see the manager almost fall on his sword.
Itās all a bit ridiculous.
Obviously as a Liverpool fan Iām loving it, but I am shocked by their mental fragility. After starting OK-ish, even if they didnāt get the points, they had plenty of things to be hopeful about, and now the sky is falling.
Probably doesnāt help that their manager/head coach decided to take one of Nevilleās infamous micro retirements last night during the match, their new star striker was left until every other outfield player had taken a penalty and their captain acts like my young niece when things donāt go his way
This is just it though - Man United have morphed into what they complained about for 20 years - game-raising cunts. They find it easy to get motivated for ābigā games against top-6 type teams, but then shit the bed against everyone else. Itās absolutely a mentality issue.
Listen to this one from Jose. Itās probably from 2018 and heās laying into people for the unreasonable expectations they have at Utd because it even by then it had already been a long time since they were any good
