Relief is a rare raw material at Manchester United – and the only crumb of comfort is currently a scan at the bottom of the table to the inferior state of playing Wolves, Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton.
That in itself is the miserable situation of the largest largest club in the world, who have sent themselves in an almighty mess with supporters who understandably ask if there is a solid strategy to get rid of it.
United is 15th and only scored 28 goals in 25 league games. There is no shock and no horror; The team that is so bad is rinsing and repeating.
The Anomalies are a victory over Manchester City, a draw against leaders Liverpool in Anfield, and that Arsenal from the FA Cup hits penalties.
Ruben Amorim, with only four wins in 14 top matches, knew that he arrived in unfavorable circumstances in November, but the enormous size of the challenge was only clear with the head coach who was already in situ.
The census of United of 29 points from 25 games This term is their lowest in this phase of a Premier League season. Amorim's 43 percent profit percentage In his 21 responsible competitions, the worst of every United Manager Post-Sir Alex Ferguson in their opening of 21 games.
And if United maintained their current rate of 1.12 league goals per match, they would end the campaign with 44 goals, 13 less than their lowest Premier League season.
Amorim's great wish was to work out for United at the end of the current campaign, which allowed him to be a full preseason to give his ideas, plus the summer window for crucial recruitment work.
The Omar Berrada guideline, CEO of United, was now or never. Amorim, put in an impossible position, adopted the impossible job that has caused a terribly impossible view.
No one could have predicted that the team looked so bad under a change of direction after the looting of Erik ten Hag, but a man who was no longer warned at the club about mass disruption.
Dan Ashworth, which cost United £ 3 million to hire from Newcastle, was described by Sir Jim Ratcliffe as “A 10/10 Sporting Director” and then dismissed to an amount of £ 4.1 million after five months, a data driven wanted Approach to replace ten hag.
The United team should have adapted this season to a new back room team behind Ten Hag, and Ashworth thought it was best to minimize unrest, especially given the precarious financial position of the club.
The choice of Liverpool for the modest Arne slot to replace Jurgen Klopp – a stylistic fit that makes continuity on pitch by all age groups and recruitment possible – was used as an example.
The competition leaders loved Amorim and his Aura, he had made their shortlist, but his dedication to three and his general philosophy was hunted with the team and the direction the club had set.
Slot was less hyped and even more sure. Liverpool ignored the noise and made what they thought it was the best football decision.
At United, Thomas Frank was appreciated by Ashworth and others because of his tactical flexibility, personality and communication skills.
There was broad support for Ruud van Nistelrooy, who had behaved with distinction and the players responded very well to take interim control until the end of the season – with a permanent choice.
That would have given United the time and space to plan the future, with the dressing room – a team heavily formed for ten hag – able to continue processes and to improve in theory. Naming the new man in the Dugout would also have prevented sentimental calls to Van Nistelrooy from getting the job.
Ratcliffe, Berrada and other senior executives wanted United United to be to be out and dared. They did not want to wait for progress or not to be assigned to their first target – especially since various clubs had him on their succession planning list.
There was a despair for charisma, and the strong belief was that Amorim could be a tactician to define the next generation.
The 40-year-old would have preferred the more relaxed entry, but anyone who wanted to reject his references based on how things went to United is unfair. He is a symptom, so far away from the root problem.
The real problem for Amorim is what is coming.
How can he convince the group of his way without getting results? How can he achieve results without fit players are those who can perform in a 3-4-2-1? How much worse will it get before the end of the season? Where are the goals meant to come from? How will United pay the elite in advance that they need in the summer and start transforming the team into the image of Amorim in the right way in view of their tight PSR (profit and sustainability rules)? What happens if he supervises a bad start of next season? Will he even last so long?
Amorim has marked a number of occasions that he is not immune to the reality of the helm. “If we don't win, regardless of whether they have paid the buy -out [clause] Or not, every manager is in danger. “
It is unthinkable, even with Ratcliffe's preference for making a quick decision as seen at Ashworth, that United will not be patient with Amorim. They brought him in for his way of playing, his beliefs, his communication style and his high ceiling.
It is on the operational structure to help him ensure that the pain in the short term can be switched to long-term winnings and they helped in two ways: signing a wing-back in January-what the priority was and his attitude Rashford to be supported on Marcus, who has failed himself in earlier attempts to get the forward to fight down.
However, there is still a mountain to work and big skepticism about whether the correct decisions will be made by those who have to do with it.
The mistakes so far under the indictment of Ineos were for enormous costs, amid a background of massive job reductions and ticket price increases.
They will claim that it was self -evident to make mistakes as part of taking over the failing football activities of the club, but there has been astonishing waste in a short time.
The big misstep was holding on to ten HAG in the summer and handing over the Dutchman a contract extension after he had actively undermined him by actively involving managers in Europe, and subsequently armed him with more than £ 200 million to new players to him and his coaching staff to be dismissed with a reimbursement of £ 10.4 million three months after the season.
The Ashworth exercise saw about £ 7 million spent on having him in the job for five months, after he had chased him longer and aggressively.
Amorim and his back room team were hired at £ 11 million for a group that was completely unsuitable for their football fundamentals, for which the kind of rebuilding that United cannot afford.
It is no wonder that the Portuguese use language such as “we have to survive to have time”.
It did not cause good reading and viewing for United this season and even the Glimmers of Hope – the FA Cup and Europa League – lost a big appearance of shine after the absence of Amad.
There is little confidence that the club can climb away from a RECEPEN Points Campaign.
The unrest on the field is reflected by the problems in the books, where the total net interest costs that have been incurred since the leverage of the Glazer family is now greater than £ 1 billion.
The Supporters Trust of Manchester United has criticized “a problem that starts with our paralyzing debt interest payments and is exacerbated by a decade or more mismanagement”.
Fans feel that they are being abandoned on the field and have to pay for the mistakes, while more staff can be fired on the club's cards.
Amorim, to his honor, has not removed these heavy subjects, even though it is not his assignment.
“People lose their job. So we have to acknowledge that. And the biggest problem is the football team because we spend the money, we don't win, we are not in the Champions League, so the income is not the same, and we give in the past A lot of money out and now we have to be careful with finances.
“We cannot rebuild the team the way we would like, people lose their jobs. Of course people feel to save their work, it's hard to have that feeling and influence the environment. So I think we can't ignore .
“We acknowledge that problem and I want to say that the responsibility is the first. The first thing yes. And we have to change that.”
Amorim says that the way to change the situation is by winning, but United is no longer doing that much.
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