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adam cool dude said:
I wish I had your optimism which is a huge plot twist.

Shaw is unfit still, our new CB is out till November and Hojlund god knows how long he can stay fit.

All it takes is a couple more injuries and we are in trouble again.
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We can't really have this attitude though, it will need to be dealt with. De Ligt and Mazraoui coming in is good. We still have Maguire and Lindelof at present. Yoro should be back in October/November which will boost things.

We're not exactly short at the back, IMO. If De Ligt ends up injured a lot then that's a failure of the recruitment team, his record isn't great.
 
No reason we shouldn't be coming 3rd behind Arsenal and City, Spurs and Chelsea aren't usually up to much and Villa have the Champions League now.

Liverpool are the unknown, but based on the vibe and the lack of signings, I'm expecting them to struggle a bit this season.

ETH is meant to be a good manager, he's got to show it now or he'll get the boot pretty sharpish.
 
An interesting point was raised on a podcast I was listening to, Van Nistelrooy himself is a manager (and not a bad one, apparently). If EtH ends up getting the sack, I suspect he would step in...
 
I'm generally fine with whatever happens.

If we suddenly come good and things turn around, great.

If not, we can get a better manager, sign some more players, and hope INEOS can succeed where the Glazers failed so miserably.

The drama itself can be somewhat amusing, the club is a bit of a mess, but despite that, still the biggest talking point in football. I think it's now widely accepted the manager is not good enough, he's got to show us otherwise. There is without doubt a higher quality football structure in place, although it's still early days for them all. Ultimately, we dominated for so long that a few rough years isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
 
I don't think they've done anything particularly bad so far. Aside from fumbling the manager situation - standard business practice doesn't apply in this situation IMO, you can't publicly undermine a football manager given the volatile nature of the work.

Although from my personal view, the blanket ending of WFH policy does appear to be the actions of an out of touch owner. As for letting staff go, we can't really know how inflated the staffing situation was.
 
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Was just about to post about Yoro. He's a been forgotten about a bit, but this is one of the most highly rated young defenders in world football. Things could line up very nicely with Amorim.

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Leny Yoro trained in front of the cameras with the rest of the squad ahead of Thursday's meeting with PAOK.
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GarethSouthgate said:
"Incidentally, it was Dan Ashworth - the current sporting director of United - that sold Gyokeres to Coventry for just £1m in 2021 from former club Brighton."

Isn't this pretty damning? Is he any good at spotting potential (I guess he relied on coaches?)? I suppose he doesn't have a crystal ball but didn't he also miss/ignore the Tonali thing at Newcastle?

Are these big names in management the club has hired just known for their names/hype? (Including Ineos in this) I'm sure we've seen it at work, people often get credit for the work that others have done. This is especially true of senior management, they're not the ones doing the work.

Not trying to be negative here, just discussing and trying to set expectations :)
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This is one example, and as explained, a pretty bad one. I’d say it is being very negative! Dan Ashworth is very good at his job, fishing around for things to complain about is not setting expectations.

I think it’s fine to have high expectations of him, but unfortunately developing players in the spotlight of Man Utd is very different to somewhere like Brighton, so it’ll be a different challenge.
 
I'm slightly concerned by the general focus on RvN. I think he did well as interim and I'm a big fan, but unless Amorim genuinely wants him there, he needs to leave. He can hold his own as a manager elsewhere, rather than an assistant.

I think one of the downfalls over the last decade is keeping on ex-players and staff when they shouldn't really be there. You can see the stories now, a few dodgy results under Amorim and the press will be running stories that "the Man Utd players preferred working under RvN".

Just seems completely unwise to me.
 
Amorim meeting some of the players, should be a club interview released quite soon. Work permit due in the next 24 hours, so some restrictions until then on what he can and can't do officially.

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