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Including the signifcant payoff Ten Haag gets, its a hefty chunk of cash.
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I have more:
If he makes the call
Ronnie will run through walls
For Amorim
Bruno youâll see
Wonât whine about his knee
Under Amorim
John Henry will say
Theyâre so easy to sway
Example Amorim
@SBYM will laugh
@PeachesEnRegalia will say itâs daft
Hiring Amorim
The Mancs will turn a corner
@cynicaloldgit will say heâs a bloody foreigner
That Amorim
@Alright_Now_Legend Bibles available for sale for $100k.
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I believe John Harvey works for INEOS or is @Sithbare or both
At the time I think it was being rumoured the club chairman was pushing for a bigger payout. The story from journalists linked with our club when Arne was being approached was because Amorim refused to budge from his favoured system which meant a big rebuild was probably going to be needed to accommodate that.
In some ways I think that is reasonable for both parties - You wouldnt want a manager coming in who was only comfortable with one system which his new squad wasnât set up to play.
It will be interesting to see how Utd adapt to that, particularly given their poor transfer record over the last decade. They have so many poor players they can probably find it easy to upgrade on individuals but how will they do as a unit.
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Never learn.
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Yes, I do too. I wonder if it was because of all the hoo haa around his apparent move to Liverpool.
Hard to see him being worse than their current choice from the outside.
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True. Then again that was an odd choice.
Wonder if they felt he was number 1 and once they moved and fell through they had to shop around.
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Itâs true. He looked at our midfield and said it couldnt work. He needed a talent like Mainoo to work with to justify the move.
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I am gutted Amorim is going to United!
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Donât worry, three years will fly byâŚ
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Whatâs amazing about the last few years is how absolute crap ManU have been. Itâs truly staggering that ETH did worse than Ole and maybe even Moyes.
Itâll be fun watching Amorin get completely swallowed up by that black hole of utter incompetence.
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I know most of you hate Twitter, but seriously, this is fucking gold.
A threadâŚ
https://x.com/UpshotTowers/status/1850944177175241182?t=7b66n0vpbtukbVEhf9sjXA&s=19
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Absolutely brilliant that they gave him a two year contract extension in the summer, after swerving the act of firing him.
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By ârough diamondsâ if you mean âturdsâ then you would be correct
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Amorim could be a very good appointment, so long as all levels working at the club come together. He is a football man with ideas about the game.
He would need time to get to grips with it, time to shape his team, and time to coach them to his methods. And the other parts of the club need to all be working in concert to get the team on the pitch challenging.
It is a tall order, but I do believe the fella is a football man of gravitas, albeit he is still only young.
Itâs a club that will eat up managers so it will depend what happens next.
He seems a better manager but then we assumed ETH was and I donât think we ever saw a coherent plan.
He is probably less tested than Slot or ETH
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The thing is, ETH was more or less all of those things too. His true flaw was hubris, believing that he was personally responsible for all that was going well for Ajax and could therefore simply replicate it for ManU. He went from a robust organization that was supporting him effectively (albeit with more limited resources) to a dysfunctional organization that was actually going to undermine him.
Time will tell with Amorim, but I suspect he will struggle with exactly the same fundamental problems, ideas about the game notwithstanding. In many ways, an Amorim is not the right fit for this hire, but for the next one after the clean-up job is done.
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