But if he does start with Bruno and Rashford or Garnacho , he’ll be going bald when those guys run around like headless chickens and refuse to help out defensively after a 20 min period where they do.
I think his preferred formation is a 3-4-2-1.
One of the Maguires (both slabby and the Dutch equivalent) have to get picked. Lisandro’s been really shit of late and then there’s Yoro, who’s 18 years old coming back from a serious injury. Another backup there is possibly Shaw who’s legs are made of matchsticks. I suppose Evans is there who’s probably their best defender at the moment but whats his age 38 ?
Serious lack of pace.
Ugarte played really well for Amorim before but he’s been bang average since. Mainoo has stagnated and he isn’t the quickest young midfielder.
The other options are a Casemiro and Eriksen. Nuff said I bet they’d love to have McTominay right now.
As far as the attacking goes , the width isn’t provided by the wingers. Loads of really bad square pegs in the round holes there.
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There will be a new manager bounce. But that won’t last long seeing as they’ve got utter Deadwood in Casemiro , Antony etc in the team who they’ll struggle to get any money for.
I’d even include Rashford in the Deadwood list as he probably has a good 10 minute spell every match and goes absolutely missing for the rest of the time.
Zirkzee is a puzzling transfer. Hojlund has injury concerns written all about him.
Erik Ten Hag has fucked United really badly with his transfers. It will take them atleast 2 years to get his transfers out by which time Amorim’s job security will be under threat
There was a sporting fan who came when Amorim was being discussed. Trying to find his posts about how he would lineup had he joined Liverpool.
Crunch time for United in my book.
With Amorim’s appointment they either concede that the majority of their first team squad is unsuitable and their systems are way off
OR
they try and bend Amorim to their current thinking.
Are lobotomies still legal?
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I’ll have seek EtH’s advice on this I’m afraid.
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I’m glad that we got to play United away before the new manager comes on board.
He can take points away from City and Arsenal.
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I can guarantee you that all the positives why we should sign him back when he was hotly linked with us in the summer , will now magically turn into negatives
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Today’s papers have Antony being put on transfer list.
Salah replacement?
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More chance of them doing it with a Corby in a hotel than on the pitch.
Rip up the system and reset the whole club. Get rid off the wasters and buy to fit the plan. Exactly what we did under Klopp. They won’t because it’s all the owners’ fault. #schardenfreud
Thats my point, I’m not convinced they will recognise that everything they’ve done off the pitch in the last 15 years or whatever is not working
Don’t think they can rip up the structure totally.
Too much money that’s been blown away by Ed Woodward and now this transfer team.
FSG kept in a structure as soon as they came on board. Made some mistakes in transfers but nothing along the lines of the shit decisions that the United guys did. Did the right thing getting rid of Dalglish and then Rodgers. Showed the ruthless touch there.
Maybe not straight away but somewhere along the line rhey need to recognise it isnt working. That should have started years ago, abd this is another opportunity to start that reset but I’m not convinced they will.
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That is the reason why I wasn’t making fun of the Southgate rumours. After what he did for England, I think he actually would work to be the guy to take a step back and look at the big picture. He would not win a damn thing, but would not be the next guy wasting three years trying to win the next thing.
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I think that was the plan initially with Ole. The fans went overboard and then the spending went too. Ole should have been used for clearing the dead weight. Instead , they thought he was a manager who was good.
It’s almost like United can’t stop themselves from Spending on needless transfers.
Whether it was the transfer for Ronaldo or Pogba before or Casemiro , Varane now.
Their urge to do a big ticket transfer of a known name has let to their downfall. So many of their transfers are those big names who’ve taken a huge chunk in wages and have delivered nothing.
Di Maria, Schweinsteiger, Ibra, Cavani, Pogba, Casemiro, Ronaldo, Sancho, Antony, Van De Beek
Every one of their big ticket transfers has failed (Maybe Ibra can be termed as a moderate success at best). The hype around Antony makes him a big ticket transfer. 95m on that sack of shit. VDB was being boasted as one of the best emerging midfielders (who finished some 7th in Balon’Dor)
Nah, I think Ole was a stopgap that would please the crowds. There was never any strategic thinking, he was meant to let them buy time while they did some, but their heads were turned by a little bit of relative success.
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He was who the press started seriously reporting interest in first, but just because he was the focus of press attention for a period does not mean he was first choice.
We know he was short listed, but we only really know who was on that due to how much the other club were willing to talk about it. That means we should not interpret our interest to be related to the level of press coverage of any candidate. But if you look at the timeline it paints a pretty clear picture of him being a guy the club’s data short listed for whomever the new SD would be, but once Hughes came in and evaluated that he was not keen.
Reporting of Amorim being a favourite started within a month of the Klopp news. Hughes though wasnt announced as the new SD until the end of March. Almost immediately after we started hearing about Slot and reporting from our side about concerns over Amorim’s tactical fit. Any time there “we never wanted him anyway” coverage from the club’s side after a rumored moved breaks down it is reasonable to question how much of that is face saving, but it really does seem the likely situation is Amorim was good enough to justify being short listed, but was never a favourite of the guy making the final decision.
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