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Manchester United suffered one more demoralizing defeat at Outdated Trafford, this time falling to Brighton and Hove Albion on Matchday 22 of the 2024-25 Premier League season. The end result additional highlighted the workforce’s obtrusive inconsistencies. After the match, coach Ruben Amorim had some phrases to each gamers and the followers, claiming to be “perhaps the worst workforce within the historical past of Manchester United.”
Since his appointment in November 2024, Amorim has struggled to show the Crimson Devils’ fortunes round. The workforce’s outcomes have been a rollercoaster—starting from a dramatic win over Manchester Metropolis to disappointing house losses in opposition to Bournemouth and Brighton. Talking in his post-match press convention, Amorim was candid concerning the challenges he’s dealing with.
“In 10 video games in Premier League, we received 2, and I do know that. Think about what’s this for a Manchester United fan, think about what’s this for me: ‘We’re getting a brand new coach that’s dropping greater than the final one.’ I’ve full information of that. Like I stated, I’m not going to alter, it doesn’t matter what, and I do know we are able to succeed, however we new to outlive this second,” the coach acknowledged.
Amorim didn’t shrink back from making a headline-grabbing assertion: “We’re being the worst workforce, perhaps, within the historical past of Manchester United, and I do know that you really want headlines. However I’m saying that as a result of now we have to acknowledge that and alter it. So right here you go, your headlines.”
Presently sitting thirteenth within the Premier League desk, United’s marketing campaign has been far beneath the membership’s historic requirements. Since Amorim took over, the workforce has earned simply 11 factors from 11 league video games, managing just one win of their final six outings (alongside one draw and 4 losses). Whereas they continue to be above the relegation zone, it’s undeniably a low level within the membership’s storied historical past.
Amorim stays steadfast in his imaginative and prescient
Regardless of mounting criticism, Manchester United executives—together with representatives from INEOS, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, and the Glazer household—stay supportive of Amorim’s undertaking. The choice to sack Erik ten Hag was supposed to spark a metamorphosis, however the outcomes to date have fallen wanting expectations. Nonetheless, Amorim is set to stay to his ideas.
“I knew that it was going to be onerous to place an entire completely different thought within the second. However once you lose video games, and also you don’t have that luck to win three video games in a row, it turns into actually onerous. That’s why I’m telling you that we’re going to endure, as a result of I’ll proceed to do the identical,” he firmly acknowledged.
The Portuguese coach additionally highlighted how the workforce’s desperation and lack of composure have compounded their struggles: “Serving to my gamers is to provide them instruments to play this fashion, however then with out coaching is basically onerous. Then, with out coaching and dropping video games… You may really feel it in the long run of the sport, all people was altering place, and that’s one thing that I can’t see once more. We will lose, however now we have to keep up place.”
With no main signings anticipated within the switch window, United’s subsequent take a look at comes within the Europa League in opposition to Rangers. Amorim stays dedicated to navigating this tough patch whereas adhering to the tactical ideas that earned him the job at Outdated Trafford.
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