You don’t recognize him? His mum is going to be livid
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The trouble for any manager in his position is that he simultaneously needs the fans and the heirarchy to understand that this team is shit and it’s going to take time. At the same time he needs to keep the players onside enough to keep the wolf from the door.
It’s a really hard balance to get right. There is an additional problem for him in that I don’t see anyone in that side that he can hang his hat on to tide him over and do a job. Klopp had pros like Clyne, Allen, Lucas, Skrtel - never going to make the grade as he built his team, but could at least be relied on to tide him over. There are just too many toxic characters in that United dressing room.
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He also had Bobby, Hendo, Milner, Can, Coutinho etc.
Come to think of it, he might have had better players that the current united 
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I’m on about the players that were obviously going to be moved on but would at least be professional and do a job for him.
Hendo, Bobby, Milner all were obviously going to be part of the team.
I suffer you long time baby.
Problem with that quote is it mind end up sticking.
We know that doubters into believers became Klopp’s epithet.
He was talking himself up last week about bringing dreams back. He’s a walking cliche.
Yeah I knew you meant that. But looking at the United squad I also don’t see the characters/leaders like Hendo and Milner, or the quality like Bobby and Coutinho. I think Klopp might have had more to work with than the billion £ squad poor Amorim has inherited
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By far the most talented of that lot. It’s scary how shite that team was: Ngog, Poulson, Spearing, Konchesky are worse than the likes of Kvarme, Kipp and Ferri.
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Spearing wasn’t really a PL level player, just a trier from the academy who was fortunate or unfortunate enough to discover that wearing the red shirt.
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Applies to half that lineup!
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We’re mostly so bad in those long years.
Still, it took almost 3 decades for the ManUre to catch up with and slightly overtook us in top flight league titles.
I’m not sure I’d agree with that. We had weaker and stronger sides, underperformed and flattered but failed to deliver but it is really only that side under Hodgson that really was lower mid table bad with a sense of impending Everton syndrome. Nothing in the decline since 1990 before or since has had that level of despair.
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It’s in response to that statement yours. So bad that for many years half our team was non PL level. Some bright spots though as we won some major cups and the O’ Big Ears in that relatively gloomy period.
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Yeah, it’s fucking awful. Rangnick tried to tell United this and they wouldn’t have it.
Amorim is probably smart enough to realise that the only ones with any future are the young academy lads, and it’s going to need close enough to a total rebuild.
The difficulty for him is that there is quite a bit of delusion about the quality of these player amongst the fans and the owners.
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Sorry to keep on this but it wasn’t so many years it was just the Hodgson months (perhaps felt like years). Prior to and since we’ve at least had periods of hope, encouragement and excitement albeit without the consistency for the league title until 2020 and we never plumbed the lows of Woy, which coinciding with the Hicks and Gillette Cowboys, looked like it could send us down a very dark path.
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Might suit Amorim not to change the footballing personnel too quickly, because it could work to his advantage to hold back a few sacrificial lambs, while he adjusts to the demands of his surroundings.
IMO, he needs to get through 2-3 full seasons without getting sacked himself, to have a real chance of creating a successful side… be good (for him) if he still had some excuse to use along the way
Nah, it’s fucking beautiful
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He needs to get his contract extended.
That is usually when shit does hit the fire and managers end up getting sacked for United. After blowing 700m on a “rebuild”
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