🎬 Defensive Clinic: Morocco vs Brazil 🇲🇦🇧🇷
⚙️ Flexible 4-4-2 mid/low block
🧱 Central compactness forcing wide play
🧮 Constant +1 wide overloads on wingers
🪤 Suffocating touchline traps on the flanks
👥Front two cover shadows isolating midfielders
Pure tactical discipline!🦁
Ntahlah ini bakal nyampe ke fans Milan apa enggak, tapi kalau ada fans Milan yang kebetulan baca, ini review jujur gw tentang Amorim selama dia di United.
Agak panjang sih, mohon maap. A thread 🧵👇
🚨 Rio Ferdinand 🗣️🎙️: Amorim to AC Milan doesn’t change Premier League questions
If AC Milan appoint Rúben Amorim, I don’t think it changes the reality of what happened in the Premier League when he was there.
People can dress it up however they want Serie A is a different tempo, different pressure, different style of football.
For me, the Premier League is still the ultimate test. It’s the league where you’re examined every single week, where mistakes are punished instantly, and where tactical ideas are tested under the highest physical and mental intensity.
So if a system struggles there, it naturally raises questions about how good the system is, And those questions don’t just disappear because you move into a different league. They follow you, even if the environment changes.
That said, Milan is a different project entirely. Different league, different rhythm, and sometimes different managers fit different ecosystems better. Football isn’t one-size-fits-all.
For Manchester United, it’s simple you focus on your own rebuild. You don’t get distracted by narratives elsewhere or start measuring your progress against other clubs’ decisions
AC Milan appointing Amorim is Milan’s project. United’s standards remain the biggest and focus, and everything has to be judged on what happens inside that environment, not outside noise.
Just my take — this is a no brainer. Manchester United is an endangered club, it is literary on track of being extinct.
🔺Now you sound more braindead than normal Swedish, what are you talking about? United is on track of being extinct — albeit it could be 50-100 years away or whatever. 200 years. I have no idea but that is the direction of travel, I do know that.
This is an unpleasant truth — but if we like look at the age group 10-20 y/o — I think City has more supporters on the planet than United. Liverpool and Arsenal will easily have 3x the number of supporters on the planet in the age group 10-20, than United has. Easily.
But since 1 billion dads support United, most kids will do to? I am of course just guessing, but in Sweden it’s rare with a 10-20 y/o who supports United. My son would have been 18 now and my daughters are 16 and 12. I’ve been around three football teams over 10 years and 100s of youth players and their siblings. 2-3 supports United that I’ve seen. Someone like Gimoro is a perfect example. Showed up dressed in United red at age 6, dad supported United, 3 years later Gimoro wore a City shirt.
🔺The thing is — kids today outside the UK that does not have a parent that support United, does not support United. Take 100 kids and remove the ones with dads who are United fans in Sweden, and at least 99 will support City, Liverpool or Arsenal. It will be the same in all of Europe — unless there is ”special cause”. Like Slovenian kids will start to support United due to Sesko.
United is as big as it is today since United was the most successful club when the interest of the PL exploded in the 90s. Ten years made an enormous difference. If this happened during 1980 to 1989 United would not be as big globally.
If United continue to be a club that is ~top 3-8 in the PL for x number of years, global following and consequently sponsorship income will not be competitive.
The situation is fairly desperate to be honest. The only thing that matters is of course that things are turned around on the pitch. But everything must be done to improve the odds of that.
The problem with football expertise is that it does — not — really exist, but people incorrectly think that it does.
But come on, look at Brighton? Best run club. Pep Guardiola? He would easily win the PL with Luton. Thing is, nothing indicates that Pep is better than most other managers. Better than some, sure, but not better than most.
🔺Take City for example. Check the below graphs. The one to the left sums what each club has spent on a rolling 10 year basis. One line is 50m. When Pep joined in 2016, they had spent £114m more on average per season than any other club over a ten year period (07/08-16/17). The gap to United was £154m more on average per year over 10 years. £210m more on average per year than Arsenal over ten years. The picture to the right is player wages. One line is 50m. Five players on 200k a week. They are about one line ahead of all teams except Chelsea since Pep came in. During Pep’s first 5 years in the PL — there is a much bigger difference between City on one hand and Arsenal, Liverpool and United on the other, than there were between those three and West Ham, Everton and co.
They competed in their own division completely besides Chelsea. When other clubs started to close the in the 2020s, City already had a dynasty. Pep never ’over-performed’ in the PL.
🔺How about Brighton? The thing is — they did fantastically well on all levels for a while. But how much of that was repeatable strategy and how much was all stars aligning at the same time, especially due to the team adopting a possession based style of play that was ahead of the curve in the PL? Facts are that of a group of 60-80 clubs — there will always be some over-performing. That is the nature of football.
Like look at it closely, in 23’, they sold Caicedo, MacAllister and Sanchez for big money. Players they signed for peanuts. In 22’, they sold Cuccurella, Trossard and Bissouma for big money, players they signed for peanuts. In 21’, they sold Ben White for big money. 7 players. The body of mass is perhaps not as big as people think it is.
After 23’, they sold nobody for big money in 24’ and only sold Pedro in 25’, signed for €34m and sold for €63m. Great deal.
Who on the current squad are they selling for big money? Baleba? Minteh? Ayari? I don’t know, the future will tell of any of them are sold for big money.
If Brighton is a super professional organization that performs at a higher level than everyone else — what do you get from it?
In the summer of 24’, they spent €284m. On Rutter, Minteh, Wieffer, Gruda, Kadoglü, Oreilly, Tsiman, Osman, Gomez, Cashin and Yalcouye.
Good? Bad? Average? I don’t know all players — but comes across as fairly average to be honest. But the jury is still out of course.
👉Ultimately, I do think that Brighton is perhaps the best run club in football. But it’s not easy. Media like to drive a notion that clubs are either fantastically run or extremely incompetently run. That might generate clicks.
But it also creates a belief that it is possible to take short cuts if you just are smart. Look back at Brighton in 20 years — will they have had better years than 21-23’? I am not sure they will repeat it.
The way to move up the latter is to invest much more than anyone else. Nobody has ever failed at that (Boehly could be the first). Real and Barca after the land deals with the state. Chelsea under Roman. PSG. City.
If you do not do that — odds are that you have to be darn patient.
🚨Manchester United have brought in a significant amount of revenue since the end of the season:
• Champions League qualification is worth around £100m.
• Training kit sponsorship deal with Betway is estimated at £20m.
• The “All or Nothing” documentary with Amazon Prime Video is worth around £10m
• Savings from Ruben Amorim’s compensation package after his move to AC Milan are around £9m
• On top of that, United are expected to earn roughly £2.2m–£3.5m from sending 12 first-team players to the 2026 World Cup
A strong financial boost for Manchester United heading into the summer window. Now it’s time to start spending and strengthen the squad. 💰🔴
🚨 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: Manchester United will feature in a new Amazon All or Nothing documentary. 👹🎥
The series will follow United throughout the 2026/27 season and is set to provide supporters with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the club.
Filming is expected to begin during pre-season, with the agreement understood to be worth a record fee for a documentary of its kind.
(Source: @ManUtd / @StevenRailston )
🚨🔴⚫️ BREAKING: Rúben Amorim to AC Milan as new head coach, HERE WE GO! 🇵🇹
Verbal agreement done on deal valid until June 2028 plus option until June 2029.
Amorim has accepted all conditions and will sign this week as new Milan manager. 🫱🏻🫲🏼
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🚨 BREAKING:
Real Madrid expect Manchester United to SIGN Mateus Fernandes. Madrid are NOT expected to make a formal approach for Fernandes as United’s interest is already ADVANCED. #MUFC [@samuelluckhurst]