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Manchester United have paid the price for their poor season after failure to win the Europa League and while focus has turned to Ruben Amorim, here is why he should stay.
Manchester United are still smarting from their Europa League final defeat to Tottenham Hotspur which saw them complete a miserable season with further heartbreak.
United will finish the season in an unfamiliar 16th place in the Premier League with Ruben Amorim winning just six of his 27 league games with the club stuck on 39 points from 37 games and hopes that a Europa League win would provide the silver lining went up in smoke.
The Red Devils lost 1-0 in the final which means there is no European football next season and their finances have been hit harder after their failure to qualify for Champions League for a second straight season with attention shifting to Amorim.
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There is a feeling among a section of supporters that the 40-year-old Portuguese should be sacked over the poor season although Amorim has maintained that he is the man to sort out the mess.
However, United will not be wise to sack Amorim at this time due to a number of reasons.
This is Not Amorim’s Squad
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Manchester United gave Amorim a difficult task when they hired him in November 2024 just four months after giving Erik ten Hag a new deal and allowing him to bring in players.
Ten Hag’s team was built to play in a back four but United replaced him with a coach who plays with three at the back and it was always going to be chaotic.
The result has been players who have struggled in a system that they were not familiar with and when they started losing matches, they lost their confidence and it was downhill ever since.
While the poor run is unforgivable, it is not just down to the coach since the club knew well what they were getting when hiring him and should therefore stick with him and back him with players who suit his style to turn it around.
Deeper Problems than Amorim
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Meanwhile, even though Amorim found players who were not suited to his system, he also inherited a squad that lacked quality.
Ten Hag was given a free hand to bring in his players but nearly all his signings have disappointed with some out on loan already while others can hardly get into the starting XI.
That is because United have been so poor in the transfer market with those in charge splashing big money on players who were not worth it.
United are therefore stuck with players on big wages and still paying their massive transfers yet they are not producing, or playing somewhere else, something Amorim could and still cannot solve.
The club needs to find a way to offload some of those players to raise some cash and create room for new arrivals which will begin the Amorim era.
United are paying the price for years of mismanagement and this is the time to start getting it right, however, painful the process might be instead of trying to run away from it by sacking the coach.
Amorim Has a Clear Identity
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While it has not been seen due to some of the aforementioned issues, Amorim is a coach who knows how he wants his team to play unlike what was seen from others before him.
United were said to be too defensive under Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho, accused of relying on individual brilliance under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer while Ten Hag was slammed for failing to implement his Ajax blueprint at Old Trafford.
However, Amorim was clear from the start that he would not change his ‘idea’ because it is what served him so well at Sporting CP and the reason he was hired.
United finally have a coach with a clear playing style which needs the right personnel to thrive and sacking him will only see them head into another crisis as a different coach would rip it up and begin from scratch which will be even more costly.
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