The contrasts between Liverpool and Man Utd are stark; Here’s why Liverpool rejected Ruben Amorim.
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As much as it hurts to see them break in half, no one can deny that they deserve it. They have a wonderful defense, a decent attack (probably classy as a man) and a new manager who has been successful. In my heart, it is also delicious to see one of the old goalkeepers to handle well.
It’s a bit like Leicester surprising everyone and winning the 3-legged donkey race (no offense to Jamie Vardy, put on your generic bottle of alcopop. They have momentum, Chelsea are too much in their infancy, City and Arsenal seem to have slept more than Stewey G. Now there is also a very slim chance that United can catch them, but we can hope.
So what is the rest of the season? In the short term, we all hope that the wheels will become and return to their average. Naturally, we all pray that UTD can descent to entering the most sensible part of the table. League to the north.
Simple. They wouldn’t. When Liverpool looked at Amorim, one of the reasons why they didn’t sign him despite everything was that they had a specific formula and needed fast players to integrate it. In Liverpool, you would have been invited to do what the place does and make the most of what you could have because there would be little or no money.
*Side note – Slot is incredibly fluid with his tactics, something I didn’t see in his games in the Dutch league in which he played largely the same way all the time as a slightly more direct Pep clone.
Both Salah and Saka are at their best on the wing cutting in, a role which doesn’t really exist in Amorim approach as he prefers the wingbacks to provide the width and the ‘wingers’ are actually two free roaming number 10s. So they wouldn’t do as well under Amorim as they do for their current manager who structures the team to try and get the best out of them. Saka stays high and wide and in free space and the ’10’ at Liverpool often roams wide to attract the defender and create one on one situations for Salah.
The challenge with Amorim at United is the same challenge with PEP at City lately: they have an inflexible formula that requires express players and at the moment. . . they don’t have those players. Amorim inherited a group of players recruited to play a formula in which everyone chases the ball in the most sensible third without any genuine design or tactics, many of them not intelligent in solitary or coordinated urges. Fernandes, Eriksen, Garnacho, Rashford are all individuals and urgency is not their main attribute.
Luckily Hojlund, Amad and Mainoo are all young enough to be moulded and seem willing to do so. Give Amorim a summer transfer window with a good budget (it won’t be cheap) and I’m sure you’ll see a change in fortunes. The issue will be that when you have one way to play you better hope you don’t get a key injury because it can come crashing down.
Finally, I have heard several times this season how the city and Arsenal have had problems due to injuries. Despite dealing with injuries, Liverpool played to the maximum of the season with a left goalkeeper (both), without our first Middle and McAllister picks and through suspension and injuries. My point is that everyone has had injury challenges. The challenge of the city is bigger than the lack of players. The Arsenal squad is quite thin in talent, so their complaint about lacking Odegaard is quite valid in my opinion.
United’s demise started with Ferguson leaving a cr*p team and insisting Moyes be his successor. And for those United fans who say, but the team recently won a league, they must have been good; just look at the current City side.
But like many CEOs who, upon retirement, write books praising their leadership qualities in an ode to themselves, Ferguson has turned to “managing” CXOS. (I love the concept of a CEO giving his IT team hair dryer processing and turning on the CTO’s boss’s Chinese. ) But it’s in retrospect: attributing a victory directly to something specific they had done. – consciously or not. But most United fans simply hoped that United would continue – this relieved the pressure on Woodward and others, whose main objective was to maximize profits for their owners and not necessarily win – because they also believed that everything would be smart soon.
But all the control of the club was a Tshow SH*, bathed in Fergie’s aura without forming what was necessary. Each new coach does not facilitate any other type of player because he has his style “installed”. Without a global investigation or an adequate resolution device.
The Liverpool/FSG story around data missed one key item – which was that it was Spurs who first forayed into this area, only to jettison it quite early, with Liverpool picking up the pieces.
A lot of this is a reflection of the ownership. In the case of FSG and the two B’s, their owners used data heavily in their outside interests and couldn’t see a reason not to bring it into the game.
It’s funny how the Spurs and United, both currently awful at bringing on new players, have decided that data can’t play a role. Sure, it’s not the be-all and end-all, but if there are 25 candidate players, you can quickly whittle down to the 3 or 4 who would best fit your system and be viable long-term. Spurs fans can say they have done it well within their financial boundaries, even while paying for a spectacular stadium. But it’s not bringing results in the field.
Liverpool avoided Amorim as they factored in the cost of replacing players to fit his style, they avoided Ugarte as they didn’t want a player who relied on mad tackling all over the field and little positional discipline. United? Desperate to fill a gap, grabbed what they could. What was available at any cost.
When you constantly read ‘Gossip’ pieces claiming that Player or Player B can move to Liverpool, one quick review of the player and you know they are absolute fools and there is no way they would have done it seriously – a 27 year old is worth £ 70. 5 (Thuram) or a midfielder is worth £150m with one year left on his contract. Seriously, but you might see United go for one or the other. Big money, little sense.
Has anyone else noticed how, having set out a vision to replace United’s fortunes on the pitch, Sir Jim embarked on a crusade to ruthlessly remove what he considers dead wood, just as the enthusiasts wanted?And the news of his exploits spread throughout the kingdom. Except that their ignorant hands have killed Christmas social staff, raised ticket prices, banned the legendary Sir Alex and separated non-football staff. And now he refuses to pay £40,000 a year to a popular charity for former players.
He was very meticulous in the realization of these missions, none of which enters within his declared purposes of transformation in the football aspect of the club.
At least all of her unpopular decisions, a type of her noble call “forced” to take for the greater good. I am sure that the modest souls who have been trampled underfoot will perceive that the riches it brought back into the coffers will have been used to unite again in the field.
Thus, his reverse act of Robin des Bois will actually have been praised because he spent most of the reclaimed room upstairs to buy that of his top assistant, Dan Ashworth, and then put it in the door before he had unpacked his cup of coffee.
I think a mistake is not a mistake. Hiring OGS could have been a mistake after his fantastic audition of guard, but hiring RVN after his impressive guard period was also a mistake simply because hiring a former player who did well as a goalkeeper was a mistake before.
The players seemed to respond to RVN, respecting him. Couldn’t he have had it until the end of the season?Assuming the plan to bring in Amorim, which would have made sense, as it also provides Amorim with a pre-season. It is said that sport and United are in much happier places.
This possibility has already disappeared, so we can look to the future. Dear United fans, please give Amorim time.
I am of the unpopular view that Moyes would have made a success of the job if given more time. I also feel that If Mourinho was backed with the players signed for OGS and backed like ETH was, United would have won the league.
It’s early, and Amorim clearly wants time to go to bed and cushion his personality and tactics in the team, but while it’s an improvement, from the media’s warned point of view, I’m far from convinced of ten hagArray whatever is going to be the opposite of the disease that is in OT.
Liverpool have reportedly moved away from him due to his tactical intransigence, and it’s hard not to think that his insistence on finding compatibility with the team’s existing circular peg in their square hole of three defenders will take a long time and then some. It takes a few computer adjustments to get it working. If he can make it in the Premiership.
Villas Boas was quickly found out, and was found wanting within a season. And famously talked all kinds of bollocks in the process. The situation wasn’t the same – he was taking over a Chelsea team in pretty good good health, so expectations were far higher – but I can’t help thinking that Amorim is on a similar path here. He comes across like a man with a free hit.
Maybe he is just super calm (and that’s not a bad thing as such) but I wonder if he’ll be gone by this time next year, another unwanted notch on the United bedpost, with his reputation basically intact (and £10m richer). And I think if that does happen, he won’t lose a great deal of sleep in the meantime because he will understand that to be the manager at United is akin to being Sisyphus, forever trying to push a boulder up a hill without ever reaching the top.
I think his long-term media output will be very revealing. Ten Hag couldn’t stand to be in the spotlight, and the poor guy was left out of the spotlight because of the ridiculous PR he enjoyed. If my suggestion that Amorim and Villas Boas are similar is correct, then pay attention to the fact that Amorim speaks decisively, emphatically, and devoid of any kind of genuine substance or meaning when he does so. then causes the deformation to increase.
United are so far away from the top 4/6/whatever that it is hard to work out what realistic progress will actually look like – would top half come season end be enough? And if so, what would suffice heading into Christmas 25, because challenging for a top 4 spot looks like too much of a reach?
Our next two games are against Newcastle and Liverpool which no one expects any points from. If results go against us we could be 16th by the end of year.
There is no player who plays well enough to enter the first 6 portions and I doubt that Saka, Salah, Palmer or the others can make a difference, not to mention any new mysterious firm, we will not even have a budget in January. There are some “active ingredients” such as Rashford and Garnacho and the team begins to have that smell of “walking dead” on this subject.
If only you’d looked just a game further you’ll see Arsenal play on Jan 1st and then again on Jan 4th, just 2 full days rest between tough away games at Brentford and Brighton, our title rivals Liverpool play on dec 29th then not again until Jan 5th – 6 full days rest!