FloydianMag Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Why does he suit that so well? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki679 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 6 minutes ago, Fenham Mag said: Why does he suit that so well? Complete bellend Never been to Old Trafford Touches kids Ticks all the boxes tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 So what was your favourite Amorim moment? Mine is this, I feel it's totally underappreciated. Camera pans for so long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2 hours ago, The Prophet said: Orstein mudded. What did the slobbery transfer schill say? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy84 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 2 hours ago, TaylorJ_01 said: So what was your favourite Amorim moment? Mine is this, I feel it's totally underappreciated. Camera pans for so long. Don’t judge it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibierski Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 What a shame Everyone outside of Manchester knew he was a dud last season, wasted so much time persisting for no reason but for Berrada to save face. Hopefully they double down and appoint someone like Glasner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 3 hours ago, TaylorJ_01 said: So what was your favourite Amorim moment? Mine is this, I feel it's totally underappreciated. Camera pans for so long. Hadn't seen this, dying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Would love them to have another dud manager and another 18 months of misery. However I think it would take severe, Steve Bruce levels of useless, to fuck up the bounce they will get from abit of basic structure and return to a more suitable formation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 They'll appoint someone decent eventually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/01/05/sir-jim-ratcliffe-has-got-all-big-decisions-wrong-at-united/ Sir Jim Ratcliffe has got every big decision wrong at Manchester United Quote As seismic as Ruben Amorim’s defenestration at Manchester United might seem, it is firmly on-brand for owners who specialise in promising the earth and delivering nothing more than a few savings on Sellotape. Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos politburo have long shown their sureness of touch as football masterminds, whether in extending Erik ten Hag’s contract as manager before sacking him three months later, or in paying Newcastle £4m for the services of “best-in-class” Dan Ashworth as sporting director and jettisoning him after 15 league games. Now Amorim, a man whom Ratcliffe predicted this year would stay at Old Trafford “for a long time”, has discovered that the billionaire’s assurances are about as concrete as fairy dust. Ratcliffe might be admired within his petrochemicals empire for his plain speaking, but at United his only distinguishing attribute is to say one thing and do another. Here is the figure who, in a recent interview, gave Amorim three years to prove himself. That promise has not even lasted three months. Once the Ferrari of football, United are now a clown car. For a man who insists he is following a coherent strategy, Ratcliffe has shown through his treatment of Amorim that he is susceptible to panic. Plus, he appears to have no instinct for when to pull the trigger. The time for dismissing Amorim was after last year’s Europa League final in Bilbao, where United succumbed feebly to a dreadful Tottenham side. Instead, Ratcliffe backed him to the tune of £225m in the summer transfer window, watched him claw the team to the cusp of Champions League qualification this season, only to scrap the entire project at the first signs of a power struggle, with no blueprint for how to start afresh. History might not repeat itself, or so the saying goes, but it often rhymes. And there is a distinct echo in Amorim’s fate of what happened to Ten Hag, retained when Ratcliffe allowed the emotion of an FA Cup triumph to cloud his better judgment but kicked to the curb as soon as United’s league form went south once more. This circular pattern, where Ratcliffe plays the tough guy but loses his nerve at the truly consequential moments, threatens to erode faith among supporters in his methods. Across his two years in charge, the area where he has been most brutally effective is the balance sheet. Upholding his mother’s philosophy of “you look after the pennies, the pounds look after themselves”, he would pore over United’s line-by-line expenditure to the extent that the club returned a consignment of Sellotape because it was not deemed essential. Ineos can claim success on this front, achieving an operating profit of £13m in the first quarter of the financial year, compared with a £7m loss 12 months earlier. This conceals some profound flaws, though, in their approach to achieving lasting success on the pitch. If Ratcliffe is so ruthless about eliminating extraneous costs, then how does he keep making such unnecessarily expensive mistakes? The botched timing of the departure of Ten Hag, and then Ashworth, cost United over £25m. That can buy you an awful lot of stationery. Now a similarly eye-watering severance package awaits Amorim, whose £6.5m annual salary was supposed to take him to June next year. As much as Ratcliffe obliges when convenient with statements backing his managers, his record in football suggests somebody hopelessly impatient. Ineos have burned through eight managers during their six years running Nice in Ligue 1, with some of those let go subsequently enjoying much success elsewhere. Francesco Farioli, for example, has since proved his credentials at both Ajax and Porto. It hardly says much about Ineos’ capacity for identifying and retaining talent in football. In the same way as Scott McTominay, the midfielder somehow considered surplus to requirements, has since torn up trees for Napoli, you would not bet against Amorim, still one of Europe’s most precocious managers at 40, re-establishing his reputation in a less dysfunctional set-up. In many ways, there was much to admire about Amorim. For all that he was judged mainly on his slavish adherence to 3-4-3, he could be a persuasive public face for United. Yes, he was unapologetically honest, ultimately to his own detriment, but the club needed a manager to highlight the scale of under-performance and to deal harshly with players who lacked the requisite work ethic. He had charm, too, unlike the austere Ten Hag. You wonder what possible benefit there is in tearing up his template just as the first green shoots of progress emerged. Ineos, at this stage of their ill-starred stewardship, cannot afford any more vacuous talk about transition. They did this with Amorim, then abruptly changed course. When you reflect on this saga, perhaps the most extraordinary detail is United’s surprise at the manager that Amorim turned out to be. Ratcliffe prised him from Sporting Lisbon in the first place, knowing full well that he was a headstrong personality wedded to a rigid tactical system. And yet now he has cast him aside for the very same reasons. An impression grows that Ratcliffe, for all his staggering business successes, has not the faintest conception of how to put the listing United supertanker back on an even keel. For fans hoping fervently for a turning of the page, Amorim’s exit signals less a masterstroke than another desperate stab in the dark. 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Sid Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Have they not got anymore long serving minimum wage staff left they could treat like shit and get rid of? That seems to have sorted everything out so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristov Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 https://news.sky.com/story/how-much-has-sacking-managers-cost-manchester-united-13491240 Could have invested the money in cloning a young Fergie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fak Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Just now, Cristov said: https://news.sky.com/story/how-much-has-sacking-managers-cost-manchester-united-13491240 Could have invested the money in cloning a young Fergie ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Joel Inton Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 1 minute ago, Cristov said: https://news.sky.com/story/how-much-has-sacking-managers-cost-manchester-united-13491240 Could have invested the money in cloning a young Fergie Brexit Jim sat at home masturbating over the thought of sacking some catering staff tomorrow to balance the books. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristov Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 8 minutes ago, Fak said: ? Milf thread for sure Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fountain Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 That lad who said he wouldn't cut his hair till they won 5 on the belt must be a bit more optimistic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Checko Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 1 hour ago, Cristov said: https://news.sky.com/story/how-much-has-sacking-managers-cost-manchester-united-13491240 Could have invested the money in cloning a young Fergie Moyes must wish he'd had a better agent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bonk Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 On 05/01/2026 at 09:35, TaylorJ_01 said: So what was your favourite Amorim moment? Mine is this, I feel it's totally underappreciated. Camera pans for so long. Your's was good, but this takes the cake: I also like when he said he hates his kids. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnes23 Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 (edited) Quote "One of Amorim's damning observations during his rant at Leeds was his belief that senior officials at Old Trafford pay too much attention to the observations of pundits, chief among them former captain Gary Neville. Fletcher shared a dressing room with most of them and still counts them as friends. As someone who was heavily criticised when he was breaking into the United team two decades ago, he feels it is something the current squad have to live with. "You can't ask them to go easier [on us] because they're passionate guys, they have a right to their opinion and they're really good," he said. "They're engaging. They're good to listen to. I enjoy listening to them. I had years of listening to them in the dressing room and used to sit and take it all in. "The outside noise is difficult to deal with because those players have won everything. "They've got success behind them and they've got trophies. It's hard to criticise them back because they've got their medals on the table. "But that's what being a Manchester United player is. Get your head around it, learn how you're going to deal with it, and embrace the challenge." From an article on the BBC sport website. Totally normal and healthy to have these self-appointed custodians pontificating from the sidelines and being treated as wise elders beyond reproach instead of the detached, deeply fallible self-aggrandizing talking heads that they are. Fletcher embarrassing himself already. Same article also says that he asked for Ferguson's blessing to take the job Quote "I've got a really good relationship with Sir Alex, so I wanted to speak to him first and ultimately to get his blessing, to be perfectly honest with you. I think he deserves that respect. "I wanted to run it by him and he echoed my thoughts. When you're an employee of the club, it's your job to do your best for Manchester United. It is something I try and live and believe every day, so it was comforting for me for him to say that." Wise words from Fergie, truly dishing out his most inspiring insights for the occasion Edited January 6 by Barnes23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 6 minutes ago, Barnes23 said: From an article on the BBC sport website. Totally normal and healthy to have these self-appointed custodians pontificating from the sidelines and being treated as wise elders beyond reproach instead of the detached, deeply fallible self-aggrandizing talking heads that they are. Fletcher embarrassing himself already. Neville was Wilfred Nancy level of shite when he was a manager Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Joel Inton Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 That’s weird. I thought they just needed to go 4-2-3-1 and they’d win the league? Proper banter club. Can’t wait for the slide down the league Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 8 hours ago, Sir Joel Inton said: That’s weird. I thought they just needed to go 4-2-3-1 and they’d win the league? Proper banter club. Can’t wait for the slide down the league You're right. It's clear after one game this isn't working. Fletcher out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fountain Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 14 minutes ago, Froggy said: You're right. It's clear after one game this isn't working. Fletcher out. Fletcher just needs 2 transfer windows and a billion pounds. Give the lad a chance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Just now, The Fountain said: Fletcher just needs 2 transfer windows and a billion pounds. Give the lad a chance We actually played really well last night too. Give Fletch what he wants. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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