United Thread | 2025/26

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Paladin said:
Amorim appears to have been found out, it seems. His "system" worked for him in Portugal, but he has been unable to successfully implement it here, and he doesn't appear to be able to set up other suitable formations. Basically, he's a one-trick pony.

If he does eventually find players or adapt his existing players to successfully implement his system, other, more astute managers, will simply adapt to countermand his tactics, and he'll have nowhere to turn to.
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The Rag's Andre Villas Boas.
 
jacko74 said:
Isn't 3421 just a fancy way of describing Park the Bus Hoofball?

Which is the only style of play united have used in a long time anyway, including under Amorim.
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One pundit claimed United couldn’t cope with Grimsby’s direct tactics. But Grimsby played through their midfield at pace all game. United were playing hoofball most of the time.
 
jacko74 said:
I'm curious to know why Amorim seems to be freezing Mainoo out.

Don't get me wrong, Mainoo is hugely overhyped and overrated as per all united "wonder kids" but it seems a bit odd that Amorim isn't apparently willing to give him a chance.
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He was outplayed by Grimsby’s midfield because he was too slow and seems to have no spatial awareness. Running around like a headless chicken is “the United way.” Rico Lewis is a much better player and so is Nico O’Riley.
 
Taken from the Pistonheads united thread, as ever they just constantly veer back and forth between "we've got a decent manager but crap players" to "weve got a crap manager but decent players"

I'm not sure what's worse, the delusion or the cringe factor...


I said before the appointment of RA that Southgate is a perfect fit for ManU at the moment.

There's an ensamble of top quality musicians that need a talented conductor to bring them together and play in harmony

Strategies and formations aren't the concern at the moment - its far more fundamental than that.

Southgate would really get things gelling imho
 
jacko74 said:
Isn't 3421 just a fancy way of describing Park the Bus Hoofball?

Which is the only style of play united have used in a long time anyway, including under Amorim.
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'Park The Bus Hoofball'.. love it, am nicking that for discussions this evening over dinner with a Red Filth supporting chum and our Evertonian pal! A hybrid term worthy of Monty Don and his 'Gardener's World' colleagues (as in the Latin 'Parcus Omnibus Lumpae'.!)
 
jacko74 said:
Taken from the Pistonheads united thread, as ever they just constantly veer back and forth between "we've got a decent manager but crap players" to "weve got a crap manager but decent players"

I'm not sure what's worse, the delusion or the cringe factor...


I said before the appointment of RA that Southgate is a perfect fit for ManU at the moment.

There's an ensamble of top quality musicians that need a talented conductor to bring them together and play in harmony

Strategies and formations aren't the concern at the moment - its far more fundamental than that.

Southgate would really get things gelling imho
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Someone is in for another big disappointment.
 
Fed of the shit about Mainoo. Ffs the guy just isn't as good as the headlines they gave him.

No wonder players give up at utd, you play for them once and you are a star. You are made. A career in football and media almost guaranteed.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
One pundit claimed United couldn’t cope with Grimsby’s direct tactics. But Grimsby played through their midfield at pace all game. United were playing hoofball most of the time.
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It's going to take a little more time before the media and most pundits catch up with the rest of us, and see the rags for what they are.

They're nothing but an antiquated relic of the sport, who are becoming more and more devoid of imagination, style and identity.
 
Tracking back said:
It's going to take a little more time before the media and most pundits catch up with the rest of us, and see the rags for what they are.

They're nothing but an antiquated relic of the sport, who are becoming more and more devoid of imagination, style and identity.
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They were playing for set pieces and long throw-ins. Like Stoke of 20 years ago.
 
bluethrunthru said:
consider this picture then consider this - that references a point thats now 47 years in the past. Amorim is only 40 years old - his head must be in bits - he has come to a "massive" club only to find a pit of vipers that are diminished to a point he cannot even understand never mind try to fix

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This is the bit I can’t understand

I can get a toxic workplace culture. I’ve seen a few of them. But normally it’s is a core of individuals who set the norm and keep it going. Usually when this gets broken up things change

They have had such a turnover of players I don’t get how it persists. Especially as every manager has had a mini purge of their own

There’s only one constant in this though we may have overlooked


Phil The Face
 
moh said:
This is the bit I can’t understand

I can get a toxic workplace culture. I’ve seen a few of them. But normally it’s is a core of individuals who set the norm and keep it going. Usually when this gets broken up things change

They have had such a turnover of players I don’t get how it persists. Especially as every manager has had a mini purge of their own

There’s only one constant in this though we may have overlooked


Phil The Face
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Even Phil isn't associated with them anymore.
 
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