Posts Tagged ‘Rúben Amorim’

Can These Three Take United To The Top?

Posted: August 24, 2025 in Football, Manchester United, Opinion, Premier League, Rúben Amorim, Transfers
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The short answer to the question posed in the headline is yes, they can. There are, however, caveats as is always the case with United these days. If the question is reworded to read ‘WILL these three take United to the top’? then the reasonable answer is ‘no they won’t’ but maybe with the addition of a couple more quality players, top eight or better can be achieved.

At present the club does not possess a world class goalkeeper which is virtually a must-have asset. This has always been the case and United’s relatively recent periods of dominance coincided with having Peter Schmeichel and then, after a few tailor’s dummies, Edwin van der Sar.

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Amorim Takes Up The Poisoned Chalice At Old Trafford

Posted: November 1, 2024 in Football, Managers, Manchester United, Opinion
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Manchester United will have a new head coach in situ by the 11th of November. The significance of this, apparently, is that he is the first ever head coach to be appointed by the club. All his predecessors were, in some cases rather generously, given the title of manager.

As is the case these days at Old Trafford the previous coach/manager was sacked after a long run of poor results and performances.

This exalted little collection of misfits also includes once-great managers such as Louis van Gaal and José Mourinho, a good manager in David Moyes and a pretty bad one in Olé Gunnar Solskjær, (although the totally deluded amongst the Manchester United supporters still pine for a return to the days when the Norwegian spent an absolute fortune to win precisely nothing over a three year period, playing some abysmal football along the way).

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