Ruben Amorim’s honesty bug is spreading, with Amad the latest to make a brutally honest admission about Man Utd last year to prove the scale of the task on the manager’s hands.
The first thing Ruben Amorim needed to do this season was to wash away the stench of last season, but that’s easier said than done.
Just like winning becomes a habit, the comfort with losing games is a very true phenomenon as well.
Amad has now made a remarkably honest admission about Man Utd’s last season, which shows how big a job the Man Utd manager has on his hands.
Ruben Amorim applauds fans following the Premier League match between Manchester United and Everton at Old Trafford in 2025 in Manchester, England.
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Amad’s admission about Man Utd’s 2024/25 season
The 2024/25 season at Old Trafford will either be remembered as the launch pad that changed everything or the lowest low in a club’s collapse.
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The team finished 15th in the league after putting all their eggs in the Europa League basket, only for them to fumble that as well.
Amorim was a broken man, offering to resign at the end of the season, and it was clear that, regardless of the mitigating circumstances, the team was nowhere near their usual level.
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The same has now been publicly admitted by Amad in an interview with Sky Sports, going as far as to say that they went into games thinking they had lost already.
He said: “I can remember some of the games weren’t easy for us last season. We were trying to go into the game thinking we had already lost. This season is different. The energy, the mindset. We feel we can win this game. The staff is helping us with that step. I think we are a different team now.”
Ruben Amorim has to engineer a mentality shift
A tactical shift takes time, but it’s easy to do. A philosophy shift can take a season or two, but it happens eventually if the manager has buy-in from the club.
A mentality shift, however, is the most challenging thing to do because there’s no timeline for it, and in the process, things can get really bad.
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That is something Amorim alluded to as well after Man Utd’s 0-1 loss to Everton, where he said he was scared of going back to the “feeling of last season”.
These comments by Amad make it clear what that feeling is, because the team had become too comfortable with taking one loss after another.
That, right there, is the biggest challenge facing Amorim at Old Trafford. Once he engineers that mentality shift, everything positive will follow soon after.