Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [13th - 14th September 2025]

Robbo said:
I think the system is starting to become a sackable offence now. Amorim's had almost a year with a full pre-season and the players look as clueless as they did on day one.

Things aren't suddenly going to click.

Who else can he blame?
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For me the people buying the players.

Have Amorim really got the players in he wanted? he always said judge him when he gets his players, not sure he has got them for the system.

Having said that he probably should change something if he wants to keep his job
 
scarps said:
For me the people buying the players.

Have Amorim really got the players in he wanted? he always said judge him when he gets his players, not sure he has got them for the system.

Having said that he probably should change something if he wants to keep his job
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As I said in the club thread, the club must be happy with where they're at.

This is further cemented by Amorim's latest comments, they suggest he's facing no internal pressure to do anything different.

Keep calm and carry on.

I was told that wingbacks are the key to his system.
 
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Robbo said:
I agree, and it would have been justified if they sacked him. He got one hell of a free pass on the condition that with some new signings and a full pre-season, things turned around pretty quickly. No sign of that.



A minimum of 6 really, but the pressure is going to be cranked up massively if we lose to Chelsea. Brentford look a decent side and beating them isn't a given by any means.
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It will be literally 1 or 2 points I reckon.
 
sigma said:
As I said in the club thread, the club must be happy with where they're at.

This is further cemented by Amorim's latest comments, they suggest he's facing no internal pressure to do anything different.

Keep calm and carry on.
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There's no chance the club are happy with this. I understand why they've tried to persevere with Amorim, but literally the only positive thing people can say is that "he seems a nice guy" - oh dear...

He's only 40 - so relatively inexperienced - and seems mindlessly wedded to this strange system that simply doesn't work.

By almost every barometer he's been one of the worst managerial appointments at a traditional top club, in history.
 
Robbo said:
There's no chance the club are happy with this. I understand why they've tried to persevere with Amorim, but literally the only positive thing people can say is that "he seems a nice guy" - oh dear...

He's only 40 - so relatively inexperienced - and seems mindlessly wedded to this strange system that simply doesn't work.

By almost every barometer he's been one of the worst managerial appointments at a traditional top club, in history.
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So why aren't the world class management team putting more pressure on him?

There seemed to be an officially informed/leaked message the other day (BBC) suggesting that they're going to extend his contract.
 
sigma said:
So why aren't the world class management team putting more pressure on him?

There seemed to be an officially informed/leaked message the other day (BBC) suggesting that they're going to extend his contract.
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How do you know they aren't?

I didn't see that?
 
The world class management team should be lucky they haven't been fired. They made the power play and ousted Ashworth to put Amorim in.
 
Robbo said:
How do you know they aren't?

I didn't see that?
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Well he said he's not going to change system, surely they'd be questioning him? Win at any cost.

Ah, it wasn't BBC it was an MSN article, the ones that pop up in Windows, reading it properly and it's just a nonsense article written as fact.
 
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sigma said:
Well he said he's not going to change system, surely they'd be questioning him? Win at any cost.

Ah, it wasn't BBC it was an MSN article, the ones that pop up in Windows, reading it properly and it's just a nonsense article written as fact.
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I'm sure they'll be speaking to him about it this week. Who knows.

I'd like him to just play a more traditional 433 and give that a go. If he's a good manager he'd be able to sort something out. Everything is being overcomplicated to a silly extent.

If his system was to work, it needs two very capable central midfielders, and two excellent wing backs. We have none of these things.
 
sigma said:
As I said in the club thread, the club must be happy with where they're at.

This is further cemented by Amorim's latest comments, they suggest he's facing no internal pressure to do anything different.

Keep calm and carry on.

I was told that wingbacks are the key to his system.
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Specialist WB's and midfielders suited to the system are pretty important. Not sure Utd have many of these.
 
He’s gone too far down the not changing the system road to turn back now. Had a pop at the fans too post game, that always goes well for managers.
 
I don't really get the obsession with changing the system, none of the goals we conceded today were because of the system. They were all individual mistakes.
 
Shamikebab said:
I don't really get the obsession with changing the system, none of the goals we conceded today were because of the system. They were all individual mistakes.
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Couldn't you apply that to most goals, there's usually a mistake somewhere. It's not just the system, but I don't think it's being blamed unfairly either - it's clearly not working.
 
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