In his first full season in charge at Arsenal, Mikel Arteta won just 4 of the first 14 Premier League matches.
It’s our turn in that period and if we’re smart we’ll learn from them and ride it out.
We put in one of our best performances under Amorim against title contenders Arsenal, without a natural striker (who cost a fortune) and with Bayindir in goal, who panics every time there’s a corner.
Then we play Fulham (again, no striker) and get outrun by a fourth-division side. That should never happen, no matter who the manager is.
Amorim shouldn’t resign. He needs to sleep on it, get a new keeper, and see where we are after 9–10 games. It’s not the first time a big club gets knocked out by a lower-division team. How does the same system beat Arsenal but not Grimsby? How do Premier League players lose physical duels to a League Two side? That’s not tactics, it’s effort and application.
There were clear signs of progress; the project isn’t close to finished. You can’t keep changing managers after three games.
I still back Amorim, and hopefully this is the wake-up call the team needs.
🚨🎙️ | Gary Neville:
“I have NEVER negotiated contracts with United. I just signed whatever was put on the table.”
I miss the Fergie culture so much. Academy graduates, players from South Korea, Brazil, France and all around the world treating Manchester United as everything they have.
No toxicity, no agent games, no PR campaigns. Just Manchester United against the world.
And whoever tried to disrupt that was kicked out without thinking twice.
It took Sir Alex Ferguson 5 years to get things right.
It took Klopp 5 years to get things right.
It took Arteta 5 years before he started competing for the league.
It took Pep 2 years & that’s because he had an unlimited budget.
Yet here we are again calling for yet another manager to get sacked 2 games into the new season…