Remember Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? Manchester United‘s reserve striker who was hugely popular as a player came as a coach to Old Trafford, and was sacked in November 2021 even thou United were second or third in the league. And United fans were happy as they always believed that they need an elite manager. But he never came. Next on the line was Ralf Rangnick as an interim manager and he soon left and the fans were happy again. With his perfect record in Ajax, Erik Ten Hag was the popular choice but he did worse in his third year than Rangnick. So here comes one of the best managers in the new, young generation of coaches but he is even worse than Ten Hag! From this perspective, it looks like Solskjaer was the best of them all.Man United were in 13th place when Ruben Amorim joined the club.That was 13 league games ago…They remain in 13th place. pic.twitter.com/dnC6Yk1Yz2— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) February 3, 2025 The enthusiasm of United‘s fans rapidly fell down when Amorim arrived. The Red Devils lost five out of their last seven games at home, an unbelievable bad record. The Portuguese coach didn‘t have time to implement his ideas, didn‘t choose any of those players and didn‘t have a proper pre-season with them, but he knew all that and still took the job. And now everybody is just waiting for this season to finish so that he can start with a cleen sheet, but Gary Neville doesn‘t think like that.Amorim gets his first signing in UnitedFormer Manchester United captain not only thinks that his club is worse under Amorim that it was under Ten Hag, but he also believes that the new coach could damage his reputation and relationship with players if defeats just keep coming.“I thought it would get better when Ruben Amorim came in. I thought the enthusiasm and the new system, I thought they’d buy into it the players, and we’d see a bounce. We’ve seen the absolute opposite. It’s got a lot worse and that’s surprising. But there’s going to be a lot more pain towards the end of the season and it is going to be damaging. They’re obviously going to stick with Ruben Amorim, but the more you lose, the more difficult it is to convince the players of the idea. The idea that he talked about in the early days. You need the players to buy into it, but if they lose with it, and they keep getting criticised, the spotlight comes on them more and the fans are leaving unhappy. You can’t keep losing. It will depress the thoughts of the players, to the point whereby they’ll lose faith with the idea“ he said on his own podcast.LIVE BLOG Transfer market madness unfoldsSo, what Amorim needs to do then? For starters, he needs to stick to his ideas and tactics. But also, until the gets the personnel he needs for such ideas, he needs to adapt to his players, because he won‘t get any new ones until June 2025. He also needs to simplify thing for them.“He has to do something. He can’t change his approach because he’s died in a ditch on it. And rightly so. I think he’s lost more games at Manchester United since he’s come than he lost in the last 75 at Sporting. He will not be enjoying this but I think he’s got to simplify it. He might not like Rasmus Hojlund, he might not think Joshua Zirkzee is great or might not like other players. He’s got to pick the players he has and stick with them. It can’t keep going on as it is they have to somehow start to play better but where’s it coming from? But I have to say at this moment in time it’s a sorry situation, a very sorry situation when United play“ said Neville.##NAJAVA_MECA_8684020##
