I understand that, but we are all supporters and it isn’t best for the game IMO
Agreed, we all love to see academy players come through and be a part of the 1st team.
Wasting millions so you “win” the transfer window isn’t best for the game either.
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Well United fans are always proud of the fact that they always have at least one academy produced player in their starting lineup, and justifiably so.
If they are asset stripping that side of the club, that really is their identity going down the drain.
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80m for the Kobbster is an ‘absolute bargain’ apparently.
And it’s early, but we’ve already had the quote of 2025…
‘80m over 10 years is not even 8m a year!’
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Anyone else getting the feeling that they actually signed a competent guy looking at his game management against Liverpool and Arsenal?
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I think he is competent and he has now had them fight for two results within a week. He is clearly better at builidng ‘spirit’ than Erik the Fraud. They were soft and lazy and weak as piss just a few weeks ago.
However, as I once said to my students in the Lyceum, ‘one swallow does not a summer make…’
The squad is still chock full of dross, they’ll do well to finish 8th.
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As an amusing aside, apparently they’re now aiming for the Europa League and the FA Cup.
Bless.
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They will finish much higher than they are sitting currently but I agree that there’s a fair bit of dross in their squad. He’s getting the likes of Ugarte and De Ligt to perform, though, and that is the hallmark of a competent manager.
I think that their early troubles have passed and that they are on the way up but he’ll need a few transfer windows to build the side to his liking.
Im not entirely convinced as there are still too many snake oil salesmen in the club to allow any manager to prove themselves competent
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Yeah he’s a good coach. Will take him a few years to sort that squad out and hopefully before then he’ll have fallen out with the INEOS scum bags and quit
Erik also got them up for the odd big game, FA cup final and against us last year
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Did you se De Ligt for Arsenals goal, he was running around with his hands behind his back may have blocked it if he used them for balance, then he could have reacted
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True but that tackle that he made to prevent Trossard from scoring a clear goal was something that I didn’t think he had in him.
I only saw the highlights, but remember that he was also at fault forboth our goals, when Cody sat him down and the handball
Obviously a Liverpool forum is not a place where Amorim would enough opinions that he actually might be the right man, or at least until he potentially proves he is and they return being successful again. Because it takes time. And that club still has other areas to improve other than just the manager role. They had the odd season of finishing pretty high up the table in recent years, but there was no consistency in order to stay there or improve further.
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That was a super fucking clearance, without question.
Fair points.
I disagree with ‘much higher’ this year.
The teams above them aren’t exactly scrubbers…the absolute dregs of the league aside, any team can beat any other on their day.
BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD!!!
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Even when people were dissing Amorim in this thread , always felt he could do well. Especially with the training sessions he could get post Jan 1st.
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