When the shit hits the fan, and they've got the wrong man, that's Amorim!

[Arminius]

Oh dear. Release clause, but also a 30-day notice period.

Manchester United’s pursuit of Rúben Amorim held up by 30-day notice period

[Sithbare]

They’ll just pay extra for the notice period.

I do understand he’ll be paid a lot for doing the United job. Just hope he thinks twice. From what’s been said, he comes across as an extremely likable guy. Don’t want him to have his name forever tarred by association with those manures.

He can stick it out in Sporting and wait for any of the Spanish jobs or the Italian jobs to open up.

[Noo_Noo]

@Arminius

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.

Not sure about that.
Thinking about their current set up that I’d guess it comes down to Dave Brailsford to recognise thoae systems aren’t working.

What’s the chances he shrugs and says it was the manager?

[SBYM]

I was just there.

Shithole, and I live in Croydon.

[SBYM]

Fuck.

Watching the Budget but need to put Goldbridge on. He’ll be apoplectic.

[RedOverTheWater]

I think he is a bright young manager, and this could go either way. He might go there and start to get a tune out of them, relatively speaking, and build it up bit by bit to what he wants - within tighter PSR constraints, due to lots of reckless spending previously.

On the other hand, it might well be the case that it’s all a bit too much, that the spotlight and interest around it will be a huge leap from where he is now. It is well documented that there are issues throughout the club, so we are also about to find out how much those issues have been fixed by the team Catweazle has installed. Maybe they have a good structure now, and ETH was the weak link?

It will be interesting to see how it unfolds, but on the face of it, I do think he is a promising manager and it could be a good choice on their part.

[PeachesEnRegalia]

@RedOverTheWater

I think he is a bright young manager, and this could go either way. He might go there and start to get a tune out of them, relatively speaking, and build it up bit by bit to what he wants - within tighter PSR constraints, due to lots of reckless spending previously.

On the other hand, it might well be the case that it’s all a bit too much, that the spotlight and interest around it will be a huge leap from where he is now. It is well documented that there are issues throughout the club, so we are also about to find out how much those issues have been fixed by the team Catweazle has installed. Maybe they have a good structure now, and ETH was the weak link?

It will be interesting to see how it unfolds, but on the face of it, I do think he is a promising manager and it could be a good choice on their part.

All of the same things were said about ETH when they got him. Promising younger manager with a modern play style that has proven himself in a weaker league.

The issue is that United is under more scrutiny than probably any other club in England, and their fans don’t like having to give managers time to implement a play style if they’re not winning matches. Of course it could work out and he could end up getting a tune out of the utter shit-trucks in that squad, but I think the higher likelihood is that the job proves too big for him, results don’t go his way, and he’s gone before June 2026.

[Limiescouse]

The best thing he has going for him is he is now the appointment of the “new INEOS structure”. This is the first point at which they cannot point to a failing as being something they inherited and that incentives them to back him through some rough times because if it fails it falls on them.

[Nikola]

@Sithbare

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)

I can’t remember which season it was exactly but my Man United-supporting friend - hubris personified when it comes to football - once famously and very confidently boasted that “money will pull them out of trouble”. I actually believed him (and a part of me still does), though I didn’t know it would take them quite some time.

It seems that no matter how much of it they waste, there’s always more and their academy keeps churning out players who help keep the club financially stable. I still find it funny but that hubris is what I came to associate their club with, later confirmed by Klopp himself when he spoke about Woodward’s Disneyland pitch.

They seem desperate to be viewed as Real Madrid of England and even wider - which they are in terms of their financial strength and commercial deals but that’s as far as the comparisons go. I do feel that with Berrada, Ashworth and Amorim, that spend will be redirected from expensive big names to expensive young talent that they identify as best but I think that their owners will still interfere with that policy.

[Zoran]

It’s not like 3-4-3 would be impossible for them to field, quickly off the top of my head (not getting into too detailed who would start ahead of who):

Onana
Yoro deLigt Martinez
Dalot Casemiro Mainoo Shaw
Fernandes Zirkzee Rashford

Bayindir
Evans Maguire Lindelof
Mazraoui Ugarte Eriksen Malacia
Mount Hojlund Garnacho

Of course there are injured players and also extra ones beyond 22 needed.

Formation is one thing though and it isn’t everything.

[SBYM]

Shit.

I hadn’t realised Amorim said last night that the deal isn’t done.

Imagine if this fell over.

Every single outlet, legacy media or otherwise, is all in on him.

Would be the greatest backpedal since Peaches and Teixeira.

[redalways]

@SBYM

Peaches and Teixeira

Not @PeachesEnRegalia and Alice?

[cynicaloldgit]

@SBYM

I hadn’t realised Amorim said last night that the deal isn’t done.

He’s probably negotiating his return with Sporting after United sack him in 2026.

[PeachesEnRegalia]

@SBYM

Would be the greatest backpedal since Peaches and Teixeira.

[SBYM]

RIP Big Guy.

[Sithbare]

More likely , that he is negotiating an exit clause in his contract to GTFO if certain promises aren’t kept.

[SBYM]

His contract has a ‘No Chicken at Dinners Organised by the Club’ clause.

[Arminius]

@Sithbare

More likely , that he is negotiating an exit clause in his contract to GTFO if certain promises aren’t kept.

Given his relationship to Mourinho, I think it is also quite likely that he is asking fundamental questions about who controls players coming in and going out. Some big names came in while Mourinho was manager, players like Pogba and Ibrahimovic weren’t likely his idea. Amorim is probably quite comfortable working with a sporting director in principle, but will need some assurances and familiarity. He cannot help but be aware of the similarities he has to Ten Haag circa 2021 as the ‘next big thing’.

[Alright_Now_Legend]

[sandsoftime]

Deja Vu - Let’s Get The Party Started :0)

Ruben Amorim keen on three Sporting players for Man Utd – including a former Spurs star

Ruben Amorim isn’t giving much away on when he will join Manchester United – but sources have said he would be interested in bringing three of his Sporting players with him.

Incoming Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim wants a former Spurs youth product to help spearhead his Old Trafford revolution.

The 39-year-old looks increasingly likely to join the North West side after notice was given to Sporting Lisbon investors of the approach from United and that a deal is likely to be completed.

Amorim himself insists his future has yet to be decided, despite Manchester United willing to pay the £8.3million termination clause in his contract and reports he has verbally agreed to a move to Old Trafford.

After Sporting’s Portuguese League Cup win over Nacional on Tuesday evening, Amorim told reporters: “Nothing is decided yet. I don’t know if it’s the farewell game or not.”