Ruben Amorim hasn’t gotten off to the best of starts at Manchester United, to put it kindly, with the team’s league season a write-off and already out of two cups.
The Manchester United he took over was 13th but only five points off fourth place and four months later, the club is 14th, 14 points off fourth place.
Despite the results, Ruben Amorim has held the support of a large section of Man Utd fans who are tired of the vicious sacking cycle.
Amidst all the noise around his future, the Man Utd manager has revealed the “strange” message he’s received from fans which is, by his own admission, hard for him to understand.
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Ruben Amorim receives message from Man Utd fans
A key reason why Amorim has retained the support of so many fans is because he’s been brutally honest, someone would argue almost too much at times!
From calling this Manchester United side the “worst in history” at one time, then clarifying what he meant, to saying he’d rather play his 63-year-old goalkeeping coach over a player who doesn’t give everything, Amorim has been box office.
He’s now taken that brutal honesty in a latest interview and ramped it up further, revealing the message he keeps receiving from United fans he finds so strange.
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Speaking to TNT sports, he gave Old Trafford its flowers for their unwavering support but said it’s hard for him to understand when United fans tell him – “You are doing a good job”, a six-word message he deemed ‘strange’.
He said: “They [Man Utd fans] say one thing that is really strange for me, that is, ‘You are doing a good job!’, [laughs].
“It’s so hard to understand sometimes when I listen to them, it’s really important for me.”
Amorim will have majority backing for his vision
It might be hard for many to understand why Amorim is not receiving the same level of criticism and scrutiny that befell his predecessors despite performing much worse, but the circumstances couldn’t be more different.
His honesty and acknowledgement of problems, not from a cynical approach like Jose Mourinho but a constructive one, has been missing at United for too long.
More importantly, he’s brought a clear style of play and identity to the club and is working toward implementing it despite growing pains.
Coming in the middle of a season with a completely new system for a team whose confidence was shot, while the owners keep trying their hardest to shake the morale of fans as well, and one’s got a recipe for disaster.
And disaster is exactly what it has been. Could Amorim have done better? Absolutely. Will firing him “fix” Man Utd? Absolutely not.
It might be hard for Amorim to understand why the fans think he’s doing a “good job” but there’s a decade of baggage they’re carrying which is causing them to say it.