🚨🔴 Rúben Amorim can be considered new Man United manager, confirmed.Portuguese coach will start new #MUFC chapter during the international break;documents to be signed this week.Contract until 2027. Sporting to receive €10m clause — plus €1m for staff/30 days notice. pic.twitter.com/wIVcZyIL56— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) October 31, 2024
My sentiment exactly. Good luck. Wish him the very best. I have no expectations. I genuinely have no idea how this will go.
For sure has many similarities to us appointing EtH in the sense it is a manager from an lesser european league who has been successful and won consecutively with a big team that had been unsuccessful for a while. So the risk on whether he can make the step up to a much tougher league with far more expectant fans / bosses and a very anti media environement is very much there. On the plus side, there are some differences that should help this time in that the team has already been converted to a higher pressing team and there is a better club structure around the manager this time than EtH had when he arrived. I also think the playing squad is in better shape than EtH had with more CB options and some of the trouble makers gone couch Sancho cough. Plus with Lindelof, Maguire, Eriksen & Evans out of contract in the summer there should be scope for some of his own signings. Plus being part way through an already largely blown season he will have more wiggle room before his first full year. Good luck and fingers crossed
I wanted ETH but he turned out bad.. All I can say is good luck to Amorim, he has a mountain to climb.
Interesting that one of Amorim's last games in charge of Sporting will be against City on Nov 5, will need to watch that now. Good discussion today on the most recent developments on Talk of the Devils (the Athletic podcast)
Should be official tomorrow. https://www.skysports.com/football/...nited-to-confirm-appointment-of-sporting-boss It's far more challenging to takeover a club mid-season. Also, it was not a coincidence that Mou was out there touting he wouldn't mind managing a club in the bottom half during pressers before taking us on. Realistically, our aim should be to win Europa as our chances in the league already looking like a wash. Who's more capable to leads us to a Europa win? As for the fee, never underestimate this man's ability to self-sabotage and get himself fired. Costanza-esque! Already they are saying we will sign Gyokeres. Sporting will want a lot of money. He's not the priority I would hope for.
I don’t see how we can afford to spend upwards of €100M on another striker after spending a lot of Zirkzee and Højlund.
Supposedly (according to Plettenberg Sky Germany) Gyokeres has an agreement with Sporting that his €100m buyout drops to €60-70m in summer 2025. There are other higher priority positions, but would love us to get some depth at striker again given I like many consider Zirkzee more of a support-striker.
OK now as for comments i am satisfied with the appointment. still in 3 cups so opportunities are there. money is not free flowing so it will be interesting to see his adaptability. also, it will be interesting to see how his 3-4-3 ideology lines up with what INEOS or Wilcox vision is for style and formation. Zirkzee will be interesting in all this. can he replace Fernandes as a pseudo 10? if it is 3-4-3 does that force him wide which he doesn't like? if INEOS are actually competent we will be looking down the road to what post Fernandes looks like. also i assume this is the end for Antony. maybe Mount too? still don't understand why ten Hag wanted him. lastly, might finally get my wish of Gyökeres, albeit a season late and at a higher cost. i am fine if we eat cost here. still no emergence of really good strikers. best bet aside from that looks to be a risk on an Etikite / Marmoush / Retegui / Boniface. someone as smart as Amorim will have done his homework and have his ideas of how to use the current pieces. best of luck
“Head Coach” not a surprise but a fairly significant change. Official statement here and it does indeed say Head Coach. https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/man-utd-appoint-ruben-amorim-as-new-head-coach First time Manchester United has appointed a 'head coach' rather than a 'manager'.Amorim does not have a recruitment veto. He is a notably different profile from former #MUFC bosses, but his arrival also reflects the evolution of Manchester United's football structure.🔴 pic.twitter.com/4E8xBFyinL— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) November 1, 2024 Nice stat Since the start of last season, Rúben Amorim’s Sporting have scored more goals (126) and won more games (38) than any other side across Europe’s top six leagues.The best in class. 🇵🇹👏 pic.twitter.com/i6FMcU3hzP— Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) November 1, 2024
my guess is ten Hag's goose was cooked long before West Ham, possibly even before the Spurs result and initial contact was made with Amorim to see if there was interest. expectations were probably laid out in terms of head coach vs manager. i hope van Nistelrooij stays on as assistant manager, he's said as mcuh as well: https://www.skysports.com/football/...-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts he also said this, maybe indicating disagreement in how ten Hag was doing it before https://www.skysports.com/football/...-latest-on-deals-signings-loans-and-contracts
One thing is for sure - the Ineos folks such as Wilcox, Berada and Ashworth are flat out of excuses now. This is their appointment working to their rules with themselves holding all the key calls on recruitment. Amorim success or failure is very much theirs too.
A dutch manager being sacked after winning the FA Cup with a guy from Portugal coming in to replace does have a weird sense of deja vu
https://www.skysports.com/football/...ach-explains-decision-to-move-to-old-trafford “"For three days, I said I wanted to stay until the end of the season. But I was told it was not possible, I was told it was now or never, or Manchester United would go for another option.”