United and Arsenal have been going in opposing directions for a while. Amorim has to prove more than Arteta – from this Sunday.
Jamie Carragher writes an article that analyzes the future of Amorim and Manchester United, let's look at Liverpool's opinion Legend.
Jamie Carragher:
Ruben Amorim recently made the daring announcement that he wants to stay in Manchester United for 20 years. His first task that goes against Arsenal in his season opener ensures that he lasts more than 20 weeks.
Week One's Selection Framework Premier League can be a blessing and a curse for Amorim and Mikel Arteta – two coaches under pressure for very different reasons in different stages of their management career. The outcome will set an immediate cheerful or pessimistic tone.
You could be forgiven that you think that Amorim is under less pressure on Sunday afternoon than Arteta. United starts from such a low base, when they finish in the top six, it will be a huge improvement.
Building a team to win the Premier League is considerably more difficult than £ 200 million to take a side of the 15th to European qualification, which is the first priority at Old Trafford in the next eight months.
In the meantime, Arteta is on the same territory as a year ago, asking to make the last step from second to the first intensification. For Arsenal it feels that every early setback has the potential to cause an implosion because the frustrations of recent years are passing.
The immediate expectation of Arteta is to prove that he can be a Premier League winner; Amorim's immediate expectation is to prove that he is a Premier League stand manager.
This is the blunt reality of the current status of the two clubs. Arsenal supporters will help their manager and players by remembering this cold fact: if United reaches the current level of Arsenal in the next five years – to absorb three consecutive seasons that compete for the title – will have performed Amorim Briljanten well.
Arteta must ensure that he does not fall victim to the higher standards he has set.
United and Arsenal have been going in opposing directions for a while and only one goes in this campaign with an opportunity to become champions. From a coaching perspective, Amorim has much more convincing to do than Arteta.
At his previous clubs, Braga and Sporting Lisbon, his profit percentage was more than 70 percent. At United it is 40 percent. More worries, he has lost 17 of his 42 games. It does not matter how the circumstances challenge or how unbalanced the team he has inherited is terrible for a club of such status.
The problems of United were well documented before his arrival and during his difficult period. Due to the lack of solutions, I wondered last May if it would have been better to shake and admit that the partnership did not work.
That vision was partly based on the sounds that came from Old Trafford before the climax of the season, making it sounded as if the immediate future of United depended on winning the Europa League and returning to the top of UEFA. Sir Jim Ratcliffe emphasized the need to defeat budgets and increase ticket prices to prevent an economic collapse.
It is laughable that he could say that and a few months later United did what they have been doing for years – to spend big to renew their team. To say the least there have been mixed messages and it is still to see how much of a financial gamble that the club has taken to get so many deals over the line.
United will certainly go in the Arsenal competition as Underdogs. In addition to the first game, Amorim knows that United will always be expected that it dominates the most opponents and is much higher on the table.
Likewise, Arteta will be aware that little will stand in the way of a broader perspective that assesses his work when Arsenal starts a bad start, which is possible given their challenging early luminaires.
The suggestion Arteta 'has to win the title this year to validate its arsenal government, is inevitable, but also unfair. Manchester City and Chelsea end up above Liverpool, will be incredibly difficult. If Arsenal -challenging for the top position, ends up second and would reach the last phases of the Champions League, would it really be justified to replace the manager?
The minimum requirement for Arsenal, as it should be for anyone who wants champions, is to be competitive, to bring themselves in a position they march at and still win it.
It is reasonable to say that Arsenal has stood still in the last three years because they have finished second place, but the idea that 'first is everything and the second is nothing' is more dramatic than accurate in their case.
No sensible boardroom is considering firing a coach who leads his side to every season that is able to compete for the highest awards. No matter how difficult it is to ride on all criticism or anger after setbacks, the Arsenal Board only needs work for their own timeline, not one that was invented externally.
At some point, Arteta will have to lift a large trophy, but the moment Arsenal is worried or supporters to lose faith is when there are signs that they are going backwards. There is no reason to assume that they will do this season, given the team additions.
There are a few worrying signs that the pressure is increased and, however, has the potential to become overwhelming. My observation during the preseason is that one of Arsenal's biggest threats could be for itself.
It was surprising to hear about a part of the fans who fascinated when Arsenal losed a pre-season friendly against Villarreal. If they wear the luggage of recent near-missers, it will be self-destructive. Pre-season is about conditioning and experiments, no results. You take the positive points of victories and wipe the meaning of defeats because it really doesn't matter.
Arteta's pre-season fight with Tottenham defender Pedro Porro was a different sign that the coach is on his way this season and wants maximum intensity on and next to the field. It is still to be seen whether it is stimulating or energy efficient.
The battle for the strikers of Old Trafford also provides an important subplot while we assess how well -equipped the respective teams look. For a longer period it seemed that Arteta wanted to sign Benjamin Sesko. It seems that the sports director of Arsenal, Andrea Berta, played an important role in securing Viktor Gyokeres, a striker who has managed Amorim in Sporting Lisbon and has again been with the work to work with again.
On 22, Sesko fits in with the profile of younger players who have a priority through the top worlders. The scouts of Arsenal have to believe that 27-year-old Gyokeres is more an end product, ready to deliver immediately to find the goals that could have made the difference in the past three years.
Sesko versus Gyokeres is therefore a symbol of the wider assumptions around United and Arsenal, or Amorim and Arteta.
One side feels like they have time and space to improve slowly and steadily, while the other is on order to make the ground run.