It looks bleak at the moment but it’s guaranteed that Ruben Amorim will get the next season, at least the start, to prove himself at Man Utd, and Gareth Bale has given Ineos the blueprint to make it successful.
Man Utd’s 1-0 loss to Spurs ensured there was no papering over the cracks of a horrendous season that will go down in history years from now.
Ruben Amorim looks under genuine pressure for the first time, with his shifting of all the focus to next season coming firmly under the spotlight.
Gareth Bale spoke after the game and said there’s ‘only one way’ Amorim will be successful at Man Utd, and it goes against everything Ineos stand for.
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Gareth Bale on Ruben Amorim at Man Utd
Amorim has accepted many times this season that he didn’t want to come to Old Trafford in the middle of the season because the upheaval would be too much.
That has aged well, much to the dislike of Man Utd fans because positive predictions never seem to come true for this club at this moment.
The Man Utd manager has had one transfer window, getting one senior player, two if Ayden Heaven’s unexpected breakthrough is included.
Now under pressure to deliver immediately from the next season onwards, Gareth Bale has said that there’s only one way he can see it working out for him at the club.
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He said: “You can see clearly that he doesn’t have his type of player to play his way. He’s kind of had to adapt, try and use the players that he’s got to make his style.
I think giving him some transfer windows, getting in the players that he wants to suit his style of pressing and playing, he needs that time. That’s the only way he’ll be successful here.”
Bale’s advice goes against Ineos’ preachings
“There will be a Manchester United style of play, and the manager will have to play that”.
Those were the musings of Sir Jim Ratcliffe earlier this season when asked about ‘backing the manager’ and breaking the cycle of a reset every time a manager is sacked.
From the day that statement came to Bale’s advice effectively saying that Amorim needs to be handed the keys to the club to succeed, a lot has changed.
The worrying thing is that it doesn’t even sound wrong because Amorim’s system is so precise in its need for a profile of players that United are playing with fire.
There is easily a scenario where United spend £200 million on new players in the summer, it doesn’t work out, and the next manager is stuck with a specific profile for a specific system, rendering them useless.
United are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Either they go against everything they stood for and buy players “for Amorim”, or risk another season like this by buying players “for Man Utd”, hoping Amorim works it out.
There’s a sweet spot to be had, certainly, but that’s a very thin line and United’s margin for error and negotiation power just became zero due to no European revenue next season.