The Next Manchester United Manager Faces A Massive Task

Well, what a disastrous start to the INEOS tenure of Manchester United. Sacking Ten Haag 8 weeks into the new season. After giving him a new contract, whilst exploring options then spending £300m. And firing over 50% of the headcount.

Though, the worst decision for me, without doubt is Ruben Amorim, they made him come early when he didn’t want to. They also knew he played a 3-4-2-1 system which went completely against the 4-3-3 EtH system. To even get close to having the right players would require a massive squad overhaul. Even us casual fans could see this. If you force someone into a role, you have got to back them.

The Dan Ashword mess now looks exponentially worse, as it would appear he was right. Amorim looks broken, his comments 2 weeks ago about there being other significant issues behind the scenes at the club are a worry.

It would be interesting to hear what the morale is like at the club, both from a full time employee standpoint and coaching / playing staff standpoint. I’ve worked in restructures and morale can get destroyed especially with the level of cuts. When you add in poor results, egos and what were obviously dressing room issues, you can have an extremely toxic environment.

The fact there are short lists coming out in the press etc, Amorim is obviously finished, which is a shame as it looked like he was getting a grip of the dressing room and being given the freedom to move players on.

There needs to be serious questions about this Bruno situation. Why wasn’t he sold, why is he being played as a CM, why does he get so many minutes. Why were there no repercussions when he dug out Yoro. We could of got £90m-£115m at the START of the summer and bought two midfielders with legs and discipline which we have been crying out for. The fact we bough two 10’s suggests they knew he wasn’t the right fit so why keep him?

Finally, how is this situation fixed? These players have sacked multiple managers, they turn up one week and look a different team the next. A change of manager won’t fix this. All the talk of system this, system that, most of this squad fired Ten Haag playing 4-3-3. There are players in that squad in the back line that have fired multiple managers playing a back 4.

At some point you have to step back, look at the tools you have as a director and admit, we messed up, this team we have built isn’t capable of giving us what we want, we need to fix this as no matter who manages this team they will keep getting the same result. Now someone might be able to squeeze 5%-10% extra out of the team, but it will still perform to approx. the same levels.

Liverpool won the league with 84 points, we got 42, we require a 100% increase in point collection to get to that level, it’s never going to happen with the team that’s been built. To get a 100% increase in that KPI, you need to change a significant proportion of the tools at a manager’s disposal.

This is a massive task that the next manager is going to have to deal with. This job gets bigger and harder by the year.

Written by Rewz September 30 2025 13:53:58