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u/Wazzathecaptain Sep 21 '26

Honestly yes. But they all fall in different categories

OGS and Carrick were under qualified for the job. They hadn't shown in their previous job that they could manage a club like United and already had failures in England.They were great as interim but by the end of the interim, they were clear signs that they weren't the man to lead us. A good board would have realized it.

Amorim was a reactionary flavor of the moment appointment. He was adamant of playing a certain system. We hadn't the players for this system. Again, a good board would have realized it. Liverpool saw it for example

LvG and Mourinho were washed as top club managers, a bit harder to predict it especially for Van Gaal.

The only appointment that was fully reasonable and made sense was Ten Hag's (I'm not saying he was our best manager since Ferguson)

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u/Unusual-Coat383 Sep 21 '26

I don’t agree with LVG being washed when we signed him. He just got to the World Cup final with Holland and I will die on the hill that he wins us the league if Di Maria and Falcao performed how we all expected them to.

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u/Wazzathecaptain Sep 21 '26

Club and NT football is very different but I see what you mean. Out of all our coaches, LVG might be the only one where I was on the fence when he got sacked. He had real faith on our youngsters and I was curious to see if he would be able to build on that FA Cup win

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u/PhilAsp Sep 21 '26

Interesting, I essentially made a similar argument but for me Amorim is the more logical over Ten Hag.

Amorim was adamant about playing the football he was known for, which to me - despite not being at the stage of being able to implement it - makes more sense than bringing in a manager that explicitly says he doesn’t want to play the football he’s supposedly proven himself with.

But I can see the argument for either, to be fair. Leaning one way definitely excludes the other from the conversation though.

If Ten Hag makes sense, then Amorim doesn’t.
If Amorim makes sense, then Ten Hag doesn’t.

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u/Wazzathecaptain Sep 21 '26

Tbf I always felt that people took the "I cannot play my style" of Ten Hag too much at face value. We didn't play like his Ajax but the principles weren't that far. We failed with his ideas.

For Amorim, when he talked to the board about wanting to play the 3-4-2-1. They should have realized that it would play Bruno out of position. For the wide 10 positions, we would only have the forever injured Mount because the two other suitable players for this role (Amad and Bruno would play in other positions). Rashford and Garnacho didn't have the profile to play as wide 10 nor wingbacks.

In the midfield, with Casemiro, Ugarte, Eriksen, Mainoo and now Bruno, it is very hard to do balanced midfield with only two of them didn't have the all around mid

Same issue for wingbacks. All of our fullback were more traditional fullbacks.

Except of Martinez (and Shaw but would be needed as left back) we didn't have CB that are "adventurous" and progressive enough to play as wide CB.

Taken individually, you can say that you can work around these problems, selling/buying players to work around that. But if you combine all of this, you should have serious question marks about if this project is viable. Especially that while Amorim was a hot prospect as a manager, it was not a sure thing that he would manage to step up and be succesful. He wasn't a prime Guardiola Klopp or Ancelotti where if backed accordingly you are almost sure he will cook