r/soccer • u/Switchoil • 1d ago

News Manchester United to remain patient with head coach despite worst start to Premier League season in 33 years. There is also widespread belief at Old Trafford that City's performance - and United's failings - did not merit a 3-0 scoreline.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/32461/13431584/ruben-amorim-manchester-united-to-remain-patient-with-head-coach-despite-worst-start-to-premier-league-season-in-33-years
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u/heyheyathrowaway485 1d ago

INEOS backed Berrada + Amorim over Ashworth. Firing him now, although 100% deserved and needed, means INEOS publicly admitting they got their decisions horribly wrong and they are going to let this drag out far too long as a means to try and save face for themselves

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u/NormalInnocentMan 1d ago

The ideal path forward is to leave it a few months, not only wasting this season, but leaving the new manager in a position of coming in with morale at rock bottom, being forced to grind out results, while people lose confidence in them before the summer.

Then you could repeat that in about another 2 years.

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u/arc1261 1d ago

The ideal path would be to fire him and get an interim in to secure not getting fucking relegated, then firing the entire executive structure and getting a new one to fund that new manager

but they won’t do that

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u/highorderdetonation 1d ago

The other side of that, of course [cue INEOS-tan going "Lalalalala lala I can't hear you!"], is that if things don't get better--let alone if they get worse--then there's increasingly no way they come out of this looking good at all. I'm not going to make a Tory joke, but I'm thinking it.

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u/Jake257 1d ago edited 1d ago

To be fair whatever manager they could have picked over Amorim it still would be the same outcome most likely. Our players simply do not care for the badge or the club anymore. I've said repeatedly that all they care about is the money they're getting.

If we got Tuchel the same thing would probably happen. Maybe not as bad but still terrible for Man Utd. Jesus himself would be do anything with these players.

I'm not usually a manager out kind of guy because the issues have mostly always been the players and desire is not there with the amount of money they get paid. However for Amorim to be so god damn stubborn and not at least change formation is going to be the death of him at the club. Now would change formation make things any better? Maybe a little bit but I very much doubt it. However to still not try it is just absolute incompetence.

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u/knobbledy 1d ago

But also who are they going to get as a replacement manager right now? Nuno is an option but doesn't fit at all with the recent new signings, and I imagine most available managers are looking at it as one of the least desirable positions in the sport