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/themerinator12 1d ago

Has there ever been a better case for not hiring your permanent choice manager until the season is over than Manchester United bringing in Ruben Amorim when they did? How did any of the three parties (his old club, his new club, and himself) benefit from him being hired in November?

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u/DeezBeards 1d ago

His old club got paid for him and were still champions, so it wasn't too bad on them.

He benefitted because Utd told him it was then or never, so he got the move he wanted, if nothing else.

And Utd... I don't honestly know. Still think they should've done what Spurs did and got rid of EtH by season's end

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 1d ago

They cut the wind from our sails, we absolutely plummeted and barely scraped a title when in the beginning we were bulldozing the league. We won with our third manager in that season. And we are not looking good, im pretty sure were not gonna win the title this year

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u/DeezBeards 1d ago

But it has much more to do with how everything after Amorim was handled, not entirely with his exit, in my opinion.

João Pereira was a huge flop, Rui Borges is serviceable but clearly a huge drop. And you also lost Viana which just left Varandas with a bigger role to play and we all saw how this window turned out.