Sometimes it is better to say nowt than put yourself through the punditry mincer. In making plain that the ambition of Manchester United is to win the Premier League, Amorim was guilty only of stating the bleeding obvious. Rooney’s interpretation ignored the context of Amorim’s wider point but made headlines, a bit like observations about his own managerial experience.
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These are all barely disguised digs at the quality of the squad he inherited, which includes a brace of expensive, non-scoring strikers, a goal-keeper vulnerable to errors, a defensive cohort unsuited to controlling games from the back and a dearth of options out wide.
The questions are how much has Amorim contributed to the failures engulfing the club? And is it reasonable to hold him responsible? There are plenty of examples of coaches turning around malfunctioning teams without changing personnel. Marcelo Bielsa transformed a Leeds United squad struggling in the Championship into a promotion-winning team.
On the other hand, he is managing at Coventry without having to answer to the nation media every game. The level of scrutiny is not disruptive, his post-match comments of little interest outside the City walls.
He reasoned that since what had gone before wasn’t working it would be foolish to continue along that path. That was in the early days when his grasp of the job was an abstraction based on data, rather than the experience of managing one of the biggest news drivers in the world game. A little over three months into the job he appears adrift on a vessel he cannot steer, the ship driving him rather than the reverse.
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Again, in a quieter environment he might have been able to bring his coaching acumen to bear more readily. In the United crucible there is no time to develop and no scope for error. Amorim is not serving an apprenticeship here. He was employed to lead and to win.
Amorim has at least packed off Antony and Rashford. Both seem happy at Sevilla and Aston Villa, which might persuade someone to make an offer in the summer, a transfer window that will determine Amorim’s chances of succeeding.
If he has any chance of succeeding at United he needs a reliable man between the posts to keep the ball out and another at the opposite end to stick ‘em in. It really is that simple. Of course Fergie had Roy Keane, Steve Bruce and Gary Pallister too, but it was the arrival of Schmeichel and Cantona 18 months apart that made the difference and transformed Ferguson from a good coach into a great one.
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