Lets not forget, they are away at the Arse for 3rd round of FA cup on 12th Januaryā¦ Their season could be over by the 13th :0)
Nah. Thereāll still be the Europa Conference League to aim for.
As it turns out, Spurs set them back to turn yet another corner. 
I thought Ratcliffe was their oil-cunt?
Anyway, I expect he is already working on cutting out their deadwood, which is presumably now Betty from Timperley who serves the tea on matchdays.
I was amused by Gary Nevilleās reaction on commentary when they went 2-0 down. He said something like āAmorim is frustrated, he knows how he wants then to play and theyāre just not capable. We know he will get them thereā
When did Amorim become this legendary manager who everyone is certain is world class? The way heās been talked about by the media is kind of crazy. This is a guy that lots of clubs had to opportunity to bring in over the summer, including Manchester United, and they all passed on him.
Some of the articles and the fawning when he signed was quite amusing.
FIFY
Anything Neville says related to United is waffle. Same as most things he says about Liverpool. The levels of bias is ridiculous - I wonder if its conscious or unconscious.
In terms of the general media, most of the Journoās are of an age where they grew up watching United dominate under whiskey nose. United are the biggest club in England (well a shell of that now), so the media will always jump on a story that leans towards United being back on top. I donāt mind it, because allās it does is make it funnier when the media turn on the same manager in a few months.
oily-cunt, Ratcliffe is their oily-cunt
Perhaps a question should be asked as to why he is playing a system he doesnt have the right players for, thats a complete sea change to what they have been playing previously and without the benefit of a pre season to bed in.
Wasnāt one of the reasons we passed on him was that he wouldnāt be able to adapt to our current personnel?
Iām assuming that he will have to bring in the right players, assuming that the club have the patience for that.
Yes, I think it is different in some ways with Utd in that pretty much their whole squad needs overhauling anyway so the medium - long term impact on the first team alone should be less of a problem for Utd in that respect if they are happy to go for his favoured 343 set up and able to fund sufficient moves in the short term to allow the transition.
But then if they replace Amorim, will they look for another manager using that system or restructure everything back to a 4xx for example?
My take on Ratcliffe is that he is an in-between sort of thing for the Glazers.
They get a very nice amount of cash (canāt remember the exact details, but I think it was nearly 1.5 Billion for a 25% stake). The Glazerās still hold the power, by a long way, but they have delegated the day-to-day to Sir Jim.
His end game is to incrementally improve the club and along the way increase his holding until, presumably, he is the majority owner.
The Glazerās are fine with the ambivalence. They own 75% of a behemoth and donāt have the hassle of running it, and they have already made loads of money from it and liquidated a portion in selling to Catweazle.
If an irresistible offer comes in from the Middle East, thereās nothing to stop them selling their holding, leaving Sir Jim as a minority partner to someone else who might actually want to be involved in the running of the club.
It looks to me as though Sir Jim is potentially in a precarious place, and the Glazerās are playing him like a fiddle. Unless he has guarantees from them, that we donāt know about, that if they sell any more, he is first in line to buy?
Amorim is another fashion appointment by a club with senior staff that have zero ideas about football tactics or squad building.
A further question to ask is whether they have any players that can work under Amirims core tactics. The lower that number the greater the bill will be.
The difference being we have a defined identity and players brought in who align with that. One of the problems at Utd was they never developed that under EtH resulting in a hodgepodge of players being brought in who all required the team to do different things to get the best out of them.
There is a difference between having a vision for what you think your football should be vs being a tactical ideologue. There is a lot of room for flexibility with the former, which is what we saw with Klopp over those first two years, but always the identity was clear. We may have got better results early on had he thrown that in the bin and approached games around the strengths of the players he had, but doing that sets your timeline back to being the team you were brought in to deliver. That is seemingly what Amorim is trying to do now with Utd but he is starting from a clean slate (a messy slate with incomprehensible doodles scribbled all over it?) in a way he wouldnāt have been with us.
