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I think the next 40 days or so are going to be a real challenge.

We have games every 3-4 days and minimal training time. Although competitive games are certainly going to shine a spotlight on certain players who are falling short...
 
fez said:
I don't really mind about results as long as we can start to see what he is trying to teach them. We're very lucky this season insofar as pretty much everyone is having a bit of a **** season. A few wins could take you up to near top 4 or a few losses could see you down near the bottom. Either way, the league position isn't super important if everyone is all over the place as well and there aren't big gaps between all the positions.

I think that he will end up giving some of the academy players a bit of a go if the senior players show they haven't got the energy and bite he needs.
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I agree, with the exception of Liverpool there is no consistency anywhere in the league, and they'll probably have a wobble at some stage. I think he's got to find the players best suited to each position, if they need to come from the academy, so be it.

I do think the starting 11 in the Ipswich game was well short of our strongest line-up. Mainoo, Martinez, Shaw and Ugarte offer far more quality and energy than the likes of Eriksen, Evans and Casemiro. Once Yoro is settled I think he'll be a great player going forward, but he's still young of course.

Garnacho I'm a bit worried about, I don't think he can play CAM or wing back. Rashford certainly can't so it'll be striker or nothing for him.
 
Everyone who ends up working with Rashford always comes out with comments like these. Reading between the lines, he's a lazy, arrogant **** and doesn't even like football.

I hope he can prove us wrong. I'm sure everyone is sick of him by now.
 
Amorim doesn't seem interested in the media at all, he just wants to get on with coaching the players. There's always too much noise around the club and that never helps with anything, the media frenzy will only ever cause problems, not solve them.
 
I think he's brilliant so far, and has a completely refreshing, honest approach to things. He's right that tactics are meaningless if players aren't running and putting in the effort. I don't think ETH lost the players completely, he was just a poor communicator/tactician and they didn't know what he wanted - I don't think he knew either, really.

The biggest problem is expectation. Every time Man Utd lose it's a nightmare, a media storm, people are looking for explanations and headlines. That needs to be tempered while he gets to know the squad. He'll be able to identify the major areas of improvement needed. A signing or two in January I think would actually help a lot, but it's always tricky.

Our next run of fixtures are tough, we could quite conceivably struggle in most of them, but so would any team - we just have to ride it out. There will no doubt be plenty of idiots spamming memes comparing ETH and Amorim, but he's only been here 5 minutes.

Dan Ashworth will play a big part too, when they identify players to sign, it needs to be done quickly and ruthlessly, no messing about for months on end.
 
MarcLister said:
Ditto. Thinking what on earth has happened. Ineos haven't signed any players yet have they? So it can't be dissatisfaction with any signings. Surely some kind of disagreement over something else?

Who are Bigpig and Woppy? :o
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The Newcastle fans on here, they said he was a fraud all along!
 
adam cool dude said:
As did I.
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A broken clock… ;)

Just reading the article, it sounds like Ratcliffe is behind this, he wasn’t happy with Ashworth’s work so far. The decision to keep ETH was the wrong one, and the summer signings have been average at best. In a way it’s good he’s being ruthless and demanding, but a few months isn’t a long time for Ashworth to really do much.
 
Having read the various articles about the Ashworth situation, I don't really have an issue with it. Apparently Ratcliffe was unimpressed by his recruitment work, he didn't provide decisive enough answers to managerial decisions and was generally just sub-par. He also wasn't working well with the new CEO, Berrada, something that I suppose is difficult to foresee when people haven't really worked together before.

I would much rather see this sort of aggressive decision making if the club feel things aren't moving in the right direction, rather than just letting things linger. I'm sure Ashworth is good at what he does, but he may not be a good fit for the Man Utd job - turning around a stumbling giant of a club where fast results are demanded.

The obvious concern is that Ratcliffe seems to have been the driving force behind this, is he an out of touch, aggressive, impatient billionaire? We know in football there are usually no quick fixes in situations like this. Obviously the reports from the club will be trying to frame the situation in a certain way, but Ashworth sounds like he favoured sticking with an English manager - such as Southgate or Potter, which would have been a worry.
 
C Kent said:
Right recruitment? You don't have the billions Chelsea have had to throw at players to fit the style of Amorinterim for a start..

You are literally falling into the same trap you've been in for the past decade. Hell, Ashworth was supposed to be the start of this brave new world in which the 'best in class' behind the scenes team were going to propel your meteoric rise to the top again.
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How is it the same trap? How do you know Ashworth was working out well - obviously he wasn't?

Ashworth signed off our summer transfers and they have been pretty questionable at best. We can't afford to keep signing average players for £40/50m. He had his chance and seemingly blew it. His advice to keep ETH in post was a sackable offence on its own - I'm sure you'd agree. If we'd appointed Southgate or Potter on Ashworth's suggestion you'd just be saying that was bad as well.
 
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