Just when you think you’re out, done with Manchester United, they reel you back in.
Ruben Amorim has offered very little so far to back up his impressive oratory but, unlike predecessor Erik ten Hag, when he talks, you listen.
“I want to apologise for this season,” he said on the pitch after a shock 2-0 victory over Aston Villa on the final day of the season.
“I know you are really disappointed with me and with the team. We fight each other or we stick together and move forward.
“Six months ago, in my first three games in charge, with two victories and one draw, I said to you the storm is coming.
United finished a bad season with an unlikely win over Aston Villa (Photo: AFP)“Today, after this disastrous season, I want to tell you the good days are coming.”
Amorim insisted on taking the mic, against the advice of others, but in that last line, said with real conviction, he had Old Trafford emotionally invested in his team again. Just as Sir Alex Ferguson did when urging supporters to back their new manager in 2013… and look how that turned out.
In the wake of Europa League defeat in Bilbao – another low in this terrible season – the pre-match atmosphere around a gloomy Old Trafford for what was expected to be another miserable afternoon resembled a wake more than year-ending celebration.
There were protests down Sir Matt Busby Way over ticket prices, more woe on the pitch and everything in between, with banners in greater number than ever inside the stadium.
Those messages to co-owners Ineos and the Glazer family perfectly encapsulated just how the enthusiasm has drained from supporters following one disappointment after another.
United fans made their feelings known to the club’s hierarchy outside the stadium… (Photo: PA)…and inside (Photo: AFP)Pieces of A4 paper with various adjectives in capital letters will hardly cause Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his band of not-so-merry men reason to rethink their strategy.
The team at least gave some credence to Amorim’s insistence that better times lie ahead.
Villa will feel aggrieved that they missed out the Champions League after Morgan Rogers’ goal at a crucial juncture in the match was ruled out for a foul on United stand-in goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, a decision the referee Thomas Bramall admitted to Unai Emery after the match was an error.
Emery was aware, however, admitting so post-match, that any result to get Villa back into the Champions League would have been unwarranted.
United, for the first time in a long, long time, dominated a match from start to finish, playing some of their more fluid football of the entire campaign.
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They scored twice, hit the woodwork three times from all angles and mustered 26 shots in total, compared to Villa’s six, of which only one was on target.
Beating a Champions League-chasing team so convincingly was not on supporters’ radars. And after doing so, along with Bruno Fernandes not being spotted teary-eyed waving goodbye and Amorim’s impassioned rallying cry, everyone leaving Old Trafford departed with an unusual feeling – hope.
All was lost after defeat to Spurs. Every player must go. Amorim was not exempt from the potential exodus.
Now, the manager genuinely believes he can turn things around, with a full pre-season – something he has always insisted on – to properly drum home his ideas.
The early signs are Amorim is doomed to fail, his confidence very much misplaced. He will give it a good go, though. And, for now, supporters will be behind him all the way.
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