There aren’t many things for Manchester United to be thankful for with Ruben Amorim, but even his sole positive legacy is being erased by the club.
Under Ruben Amorim, the results were awful, the playing style never clicked, he alienated some of the club’s most important players, and ultimately forced his own sacking.
Any argument to keep him was then further diminished by Michael Carrick’s flying start to life at Man Utd.
However, amidst all these, he kept getting credit for his sole positive legacy at the club, which United are now erasing by ending a prevalent narrative.
Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim giving instructions to Marcus Rashford.
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Ruben Amorim deserves ___ % credit for Michael Carrick’s BRILLIANT start at Man Utd
Fill in the blank. Did Amorim lay the foundation for success at Old Trafford?
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Michael Carrick and Ruben Amorim as Man Utd managers
Man Utd set the record straight on dressing room culture
Even when the results and standards fell off a cliff at Old Trafford under Ruben Amorim, Man Utd fans kept their trust because of a simple reason.
After a long time, the dressing room looked like a genuinely professional group, helped by Amorim’s hard stance on non-negotiables around professionalism.
The likes of Antony, Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford, and Alejandro Garnacho were shipped out with ruthlessness, and some driven characters were recruited.
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Amorim was given credit for restoring the professionalism and accountability at Carrington, something which Diogo Dalot also spoke about recently.
However, a recent report from The Telegraph quotes club sources saying that the likes of Garnacho, Sancho, Rashford, and Antony would have been shipped out with or without Amorim.
The club was going to get rid of these players anyway, and the presence of Amorim had nothing to do with the squad rebuild.
Considering this was Amorim’s only positive legacy at the club, even this comes with an asterisk now. Was Amorim really as influential behind the scenes as he’s given credit for?
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It’s ironic how Amorim is hailed as a martyr for fighting back against the board not giving him the power of decision-making, then given credit for making singular decisions about the future of these players.
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From the very first moment, it was clear that the club and Amorim were aligned on the future of these players, and, if anything, his “bomb squad” shenanigans only weakened United’s selling position.
The report above confirms the theory that the cultural reset has arrived with Ineos, and Amorim just happened to be in the middle of it all when it happened.
It is conveniently forgotten that the players didn’t down tools for Erik ten Hag either, at least not the ones brought under Ineos’ watch.
Amorim wasn’t a martyr who restored standards at United. He was someone who knew he wasn’t able to do the job so he forced his own exit and took credit for the job his successor is doing.
The reset would have happened, with or without Amorim.
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