06 Jan 2026 10:44:30
Amorim wasn't wrong when he said things will be getting a lot worse before they get better. Genuinely, I don't see what direction the club go now. It feels like the leadership team want a yes man but any top Manager/Head Coach that is worth their weight in gold is not going to be this character.
Time and time again I hear people say we need the best in class but with that you have to allow them to do what they did to get to best in class. The next couple of appointments are really going to show what this board is all about.
For what it's worth, I'd be going all out for Luis Enrique. Yes he's on a good gig at PSG and everyone will ask why would he leave them for United but for me, he has achieved everything at PSG, he has been successful in Spain and France, I am sure every top Manager/Coach would want a crack at the Premier League and there is still that ''What if'' question Managers will ask themselves about being the one to succeed at United. Certainly worth testing the waters anyway IMO.
Til the end of season, I'd genuinely look at Solskjaer but get maybe Rene Meulensteen back in alongside him. Not sure what other options there are to be honest.
06 Jan 2026 11:20:45
Agree its a mess and the reality is over the next 4 games it could get a lot messier.
If we don't get 3 points tomorrow and get knocked out of the cup and then face Arsenal and City back to back.
The season could pretty much be over when it comes to trophies and the “lofty goal” of returning to the champions league.
06 Jan 2026 11:48:25
I'm still in shock. Almost grief-stricken. If those who were calling for RA to be sacked think that we are now in a better place because they got their wish, then you are fools. I cannot believe WTAF the club has just done.
We will be in the outback without a compass for years to come at this rate, and the only change will be a different manager with the same folk baying for his blood. Sickening.
06 Jan 2026 12:00:29
Fizz
Am the same. I am actually furious at this, it puts the change and any serious culture change back for a long time. The club got rid of Rangnick and now Amorim, the clear message is we don’t want change. (underlying it seems as long as the money keeps coming in)
He may not have got every selection right but there was a clear direction and change in mentality. Utterly appalled.
06 Jan 2026 12:42:07
I don't think it will be quite as tragic as being made out :D
Ok, things are a mess at the top, anyone can see that and I imagine there will be more hiring and firing to come.
On the pitch we'll more than likely get spanked by the two top teams in the coming weeks - anything at all from those games would be gratefully received, hell I'd settle for 2 points there.
But, I do expect a win on weds, hopefully to still be in the cup sunday evening, and I am looking forward to whoever the caretaker is for the remainder of the season to make a go of it. It's still a great opportunity for someone and one of those CL spots is there for the taking IMO. Whoever it is will be thinking the job could be there for the taking if they lift the place.
06 Jan 2026 13:26:05
No to OGS.
06 Jan 2026 13:36:53
I disagree with some of this. From what ed001 has said, the club had decided to back Amorim and replace Wilcox. The press conference outburst was unnecessary because Amorim had won the power struggle. As such, he wanted to go and put the club in a position where they had to sack him.
06 Jan 2026 13:49:59
I'm with Fizz and Redman, not so much from a 'results on the pitch perspective' but for what it means for our club. I had sensed the culture change - the collaborative direction, the rotten eggs being removed from the club, a positive dressing room who are aligned with the manager, a manager who is young, developing and building a long-term playing style and approach.
All of that has been destroyed in one fell swoop. This puts us back on the merry go round of manager in, manager out with no clear direction and no end goal in sight. Are we as stupid as Chelsea to seek short term success and then not actually deliver against it? That's exactly what is going to happen. again.
As crazy as it might sound, when I look at the list of managers we are being linked with, I see nothing inspiring and candidly nothing that makes me excited to go to every game. I'd actually found that again for the first time since 2012 even though the results weren't good. I felt I was watching a journey and the club re-finding itself and the principles that it was built on.
I'd take Amorim back in a heartbeat - at least we had a direction and a vision to get behind.
06 Jan 2026 14:05:18
Red Man / Fizz - I appreciate your loyalty and inputs, but let's not pretend RA didn't orchestrate his own sacking.
I don't think Wilcox or Berrada are not to blame in all of this, but he didn't need to come out and say what he did, he knew what the consequences would be by saying it, and I'm sure he got a nice healthy payout to go with it. The comments were ridiculous, he was Head Coach, with a structure above him set to determine the identity of Manchester United, which all fans screamed for. RA was too stubborn to make changes on a system, that regardless of your views of the squad, resulted in him being the worst United manager since Ferguson.
I also don't know what change in mentality you're referring to. The player mentality was appalling at times if we are going by some of their performances.
06 Jan 2026 14:18:59
Excellent post jd123. In a nutshell.
06 Jan 2026 14:19:28
I liked him as a person but its not a loss as a coach. not sure why everyone is freaking out. we are generally utter sh. t to watch mostly with a sprinkle of hope here and there and been that way for so long.
His results are the worst of any manager I have seen. If the idea was he wanted 15 more players before it clicked, good luck to the man finding a club that would put up with that at the top level.
Decent lengthy article by athletic which is unbiased. Barada and sjr wanted him and wilcox was on the fence about his system and came around and ashworth was not onboard with it.
It paints a poor picture of him and his man management skills of players and a his coaching staff being young and inexperienced and how he refused to make adjustments and even not happy with lemmens signing or sesko as he wanted martinez and watkins. I actually back the club on the signings can't be signing older players with high wages and then we are stuck with them and everyone complains in the fan base.
Our results will improve and we will have a much better second half of the season imo.
06 Jan 2026 15:21:29
“I’m a COACH at heart, ” Jason Wilcox told the Manchester United former players’ association in September.
“That’s a strength in my role now, but also causes me a bit of a problem because I always want to INTERFERE in what the managers are doing. ”
Can't think why Amorim might have been pi$$ed off and became ever more stubborn.
06 Jan 2026 15:30:49
Amorim should've done better then. He wouldn't have been sacked. He was rubbish.
06 Jan 2026 15:48:11
Angel, I'm often accused of being unable to suffer fools gladly and refusing to engage with buffoons. I don't defend myself from those allegations; indeed, I agree with them. So, if it's okay with you, I shall not be engaging with you in the future.
06 Jan 2026 16:03:29
I genuinely thought we were turning a corner. I know we had some dubious performances lately, but with a full strength team back, I was quite optimistic for the rest of the season.
Has to be Ole now, doesn't it? . ?.
06 Jan 2026 16:44:11
Nou, he just wasn't good enough, there's no getting away from it. The club made a mistake with his appointment. I'm sure he is a fine coach, but his style, his formation, tactics, none aligned with this club and I wish him all the best at whatever club he ends up at. But there's no getting away from the fact that he has the worse stats as a man united manager since the 70s. He was really poor.
Haha ole as interim, as long as he isn't appointed full time again, I'm not opposed to it.
06 Jan 2026 17:43:55
Someone needed to do the open heart surgery, but sadly there are at least three posters in this section that can’t see what was happening. The change the club desperately needed to move forward has been cancelled for another season. SAF first few years were tough but he sorted it out, this is modern people, impatient and can’t see a bigger picture.
The quiet beneficiaries will likely be the financial side, another yacht for the Glazers.
Now the Ole cheerleaders start, win a couple of games and all the problems are forgotten. Pathetic.
Sack Wilcox and Berada should be on borrowed time. Those old social media anti United posts don’t do him any favours at all.
Where was the leadership in dealing with this. Someone abdicated responsibility for sorting Wilcox out and ensuring the manager had what he needed. SJR sacked the wrong person.
06 Jan 2026 18:52:29
they got fed up with our results and his stubbornness of not willing to change. They questioned it, he reacted like a child and said stuff publicly he should have not and got sacked. if i owned it i would sack him too. get over it and we move on.
06 Jan 2026 21:22:54
Ahmad
Let’s quote Amorims now former boss, Wilcox. “I’m a coach at heart. That’s a strength in my role now but also causes me a bit of a problem because I always want to interfere in what the managers are doing”
Tell us all honestly, if your boss interfered with your decisions and told you to change them what would you do?
His stubbornness or not willing to change you say, well that was the strength we were looking for, conviction. If there is an error it was whoever hired him and thought they could change his principles. We are lucky to have had a manager with principles. Terrible mess we are in. Again.
06 Jan 2026 22:06:56
Red man, 38% win rate. They gave him so much rope and his insistence on his style of play was just not working.
Ed001 says they were actually going to sack Wilcox.
The athletic article paints a much different story than what you want to believe.
He performed appalling and was let go after he shot himself in his last press conference.
The mistake was in allowing him 14 months to do something that clearly wasn't working.
Had he been doing a good job, no one would have said anything.
07 Jan 2026 13:55:35
Red Man, no-one is a cheerleader. You always come across as quite a serious chap, so I've no idea why you have to throw these childish little comments just because someone disagrees with you.
Part of me is just on the wind-up with Ole, but part of me genuinely does think, as an interim, we could do much worse than him.