Really think this Amorim sacking is the one that will spectacularly and permanently fuck them. They haven't even sacked him for footballing reasons, he just had the guts to consistently call out their terrible board and then said board decided they didn't like that, so out he goes. Performances were improving, results were getting better, and he was keeping United in the hunt for 4th-6th place despite all the injuries they've had recently. They're actually 3rd based on xG created/conceded this season, not far behind City and Arsenal. Sacking him now, when they've had about 10 chances to do so over the last 12 months, seems mad.
Not only that, but the guy they stole from Newcastle - that Dan Ashworth bloke - resigned over Amorim's appointment. Our old guy Omar Berrada wanted him and Ashworth said "Fine, run the club without me". They lost their Director of Football over Amorim and now they're sacking him 12 months on. They weren't winning as many games this season as they should under Amorim, and there were definitely some bad moments, but the performances were more cohesive and better structured (on the whole), and the players were starting to deliver on Amorim's vision. I could see them finishing 4th-6th.
Their improvement from last season has actually been quite good, and Amorim's signings have been among United's best players this season (always a good sign). It's worth mentioning as well that after months of arguing over his 3-4-3 system it seems he'd finally started to get everyone on board. I'm not saying Amorim would have won them a Premier League title before 2030 or anything like that, but after a bumpy first six months he was putting in decent foundations and finally giving United a bit of identity. I reckon they were on to finish top half comfortably in 2026 and then get back into Europe from 2027.
But United have just chucked it all out the window. They've just retreated into the same childlike state they were in around 2018/19, when they thought the perfect tonic to an argumentative and stubborn ideologue (Mourinho) was to simply hire one of Ferguson's former players and keep reminding people about "spirit" (Solksjaer). The parallels are hilarious. It's absolutely barmy how bad United makes people at their jobs. They might well win the derby at the weekend, and Carrick might get off to a good start, but the people in that boardroom are obsessed with pushing the reset button regardless of where the current project is up to. They'll never get anywhere. They'll completely change course if Carrick does well, by the way, and then sack him before the end of 2026 when the honeymoon period blows up. And they'll be back to square one again.
Chelsea have been the same ever since Tuchel went. Actually, just since Boehly came in. They get so far with a decent manager and then BOOM, everything gets blown up and started again. Tuchel was doing okay then BOOM, Potter came in. Potter was shit so they got Pochettino in, who was doing okay and then BOOM, Maresca came in. Maresca was doing okay but then BOOM it's time for Liam Rosenior. It's not a model you can run a top club on, lurching from one style to the next, spending millions on one idea for 12 months and then spending more millions on another idea for the next 12 months. Chelsea and United are going to be several nautical miles out of the title picture for fucking years now - and even when their boards realise why, they'll just press the BOOM button again and hire the next magic man. Hilarious.
