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01 Oct 2025 21:12:09
There’s some click bait about Amorim changing formation but here are direct quotes?

Seems like a change in direction?

“I think again the fun part is trying to adapt the way you see football to every system of the the opponent, ” he told TNT Sports. “I’m always saying the same thing. This is going to evolve. We are going to change the the system. But it’s not a normal system and sometimes you take longer to go from this system to another systems. “.

02 Oct 2025 10:27:35
he will get sacked the minute they have their guy. Loads of people within club know he is gone.

02 Oct 2025 15:54:49
Shashank, I wish I had your incredible insider knowledge. You must be personal friends with a lot of connected people within the club.

02 Oct 2025 16:50:03
Clearly they working on replacement now, just like West Ham did with potter.
Be stupid and naive not to be.

02 Oct 2025 21:21:42
But who?

{Ed025's Note - Glasner?..

03 Oct 2025 09:47:45
Fizz

I tend to agree with what shashank is saying. I can't see how they will allow this to continue and I don't believe for a second they are going to be okay with us lingering in the bottom half of the table and him getting another season. I have always said give it 10 games and he will end up going.

I honestly like the man but think he lacks experience at this level and getting outcoached and outsmarted by better managers with lesser teams and squads. He is making losing to anybody normal at united and that's all wrong.

01 Oct 2025 14:33:26
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01 Oct 2025 14:03:24
Imagine the polls and the media frenzy hourly and daily if we'd spu**ed the best part of £250 million on Isak and Wirtz. Carragher would be frothing at the mouth with his Sly and newspaper minute by minute breakdowns and opinions.
Carragher is always at his most vocal on Manchester United when Liverpool lose. We are still top of media voice share whatever happens. We are the go to deflection club for most pundits it seems.

01 Oct 2025 17:50:58
To be clear, Carrag her is a dick. The End.

01 Oct 2025 21:10:08
When you’re top of the league does it matter?

United get stick because they under perform against their ability.

Isak had zero pre season and Wirtz tbf I’m not sure will work unless he’s at CAM plus the bundesliga to prem exchange rate can be unpredictable. See Sancho but he’s a d! k, perhaps Kagawa? Ekithike looks solid.

02 Oct 2025 11:32:04
I haven't seen anything of Wirtz previously. I hear he's pretty incredible and hope he comes good as it's great having the best players in the Prem. But honestly, if I'd been told up front one of these players cost £116m before the last game and was asked to say who, he'd have been one of the last I said lol. The Prem is a different beast. So much faster and more physical than any league and the biggest difference is the quality of defending. It can make even the most amazing players look ordinary.

01 Oct 2025 13:38:47
Weather you are RA In or Out and saying we don't have the players, he still picks the formation and players on the pitch. A press game needs all 10 out field players working together either pushing up or defending as a unit. All players need to be aware of where need to be depending on who where the ball is. Our defence is slow with Maguire so they sit deeper which leave gaps to exploit, Casemero will sit in again leave space ahead of him. If you don't have the players you need to adapt. I think we all know the players aren't there at the moment but as a manager your job is to get the best from what you have get the ugly win or draw until you get those players in. RA just doesn't buy into this, we have started games really well, but we tire early then and conceded from the same things, corners frees into the box. We have plenty of height in the team should be a problem for us. RA needs to adjust or he's gone.

01 Oct 2025 14:58:26
Agree with this but the players have achieved nothing and RA has won two recent titles. We’re adjusting the wrong bit again because it’s easier, a bit quicker and less painful but has not achieved what the fans ultimately want. The old boys still need to go and if we can afford it we still need a quality midfielder in Jan. nothing has really changed. We’ve had a rough run of fixtures so are lower that some teams at our level because they’ve had an easier run. Oh and we’ve had a couple of bad results like the rest of the league. Come the summer I expect another new midfielder wingback, cd and goalie at least. And the project will be right on track. A project most agreed on. I refused to believe everyone thought a 3 year plan meant 2nd or even top in the first 6 games.

01 Oct 2025 16:38:33
No when 12 months in you expect to see something and a rebuild don’t give you the right to lose most of your games in that 12 months, no one asking for top 4 or even top 6 but look at the teams we lost against, I don’t think Grimsby or Brentford let alone the others are asking to much.
Coupled with the fact of RA attitude keep saying I don’t care or worry about my job, well you should care, have some professional pride man, we all know your have millions to go, but that’s not the point, you should care!
You could give RA another 500 million he won’t build a new team fit for the EPL.

02 Oct 2025 11:00:25
Bollocos upset. He has had a few game, last season is irrelevant, absolutely irrelevant. No wonder the club struggles with fools unable to grasp the basics of having NONE of the right players upon arrival. The most inept comment I've seen in a while and wow that is saying something on here. It was interesting to see how few posts there were after we beat Chelsea compared to the last week, you guys actually dwlifht in being negative, it's embarrassing.

03 Oct 2025 00:55:28
Well said Captain!

01 Oct 2025 10:14:01
If we get rid of Amorim, I'd like to see us go back to the original plan of bringing in a Sporting Director. The man we should have given the job to last time (Paul Mitchell) is once again available.

Without a sporting director, I don't see the point in replacing the manager. We'd only end up back here in 12-18 months time.

01 Oct 2025 11:00:09
We have a Director of Football in Wilcox. There is far too much knee jerk reactions going on here.

01 Oct 2025 11:03:15
Surely this is what Wilcox is doing under a different title.

01 Oct 2025 14:39:21
That's wilcox.

01 Oct 2025 17:48:16
Then why did we bring in Ashworth when Wilcox was already in place? When Ashworth came in, it was to work above Wilcox, right?

Unless you’re suggesting that Wilcox has been silently promoted after Ashworth was fired, but then that begs the question, if Wilcox was good enough for the role, why wasn’t he given it in the first place? If management thought he was up to the task, why waste £10m+ bringing in and then getting rid of Ashworth?

01 Oct 2025 19:40:46
There.

01 Oct 2025 19:43:02
There was nothing silent about it. Your comments are incredibly childish.

01 Oct 2025 21:45:49
Wilcox was not in the position he is now when ashworth was hired. When ashworth was sacked, the club decided not to get another director of football but instead opted to give Wilcox the role.

Wilcox was technical director but is now director of football.

Like an organization, they felt they could promote from within. It's not unusual and there was certainly nothing silent about it.

The Next Manchester United Manager Faces A Massive Task

01 Oct 2025 07:39:03
{Ed's Note - Rewz has posted a new article entitled, The Next Manchester United Manager Faces A Massive Task

02 Oct 2025 16:20:36
So does the current - RA.

01 Oct 2025 04:44:57
If ever a change of manager, I'd go for Carrick tbh. I think his character suits the club's DNA and is also a likable person. He is calm and players would find it easy to work with him.

01 Oct 2025 08:36:51
Hi 666 hope your keeping well sir. Nice to see old posters still posting hope your health is good.

01 Oct 2025 10:05:08
I’d take Carrick until the end of the season.

01 Oct 2025 10:07:28
Ole and Keane as interim until the end of the season.

01 Oct 2025 11:00:51
These are all jokes right?

01 Oct 2025 11:04:32
None of them remotely close to good enough. Amorim is still a far far better manager than these. Just because somebody wore the shirt does not mean they can wear the coach's jacket. Ludicrous.

Dear God. Listen to yourselves.

01 Oct 2025 13:46:14
Gary Neville knows everything, get him in.

01 Oct 2025 13:48:24
Well i'd actually say both Carrick and ole are better managers than ruben, who let's face it is a disaster.

01 Oct 2025 14:04:33
I want Jamie Carragher to be a manager somewhere. Would be hilarious.

01 Oct 2025 14:07:41
To be honest, I would prefer playing Ole ball to Amorim ball at the minute BRD.

01 Oct 2025 20:51:12
I will take Michael Carrick. He was incredible player, highly respected and doing pretty darn good in the championship and looks like they will win automatic promotion. Pretty sure we will see an immediate massive improvement in results.

I am hate the press frenzy and pundits all having a dig and go at united managers but at the end of the day he has created tis feeding frenzy.

We will do much better under many managers out there imo and I have gone from Amorim might be the guy to be our manager for many many years to the guy is just not good enough at this level and way above his pay grade to be a united manager.

{Ed001's Note - Carrick got sacked in the summer Ahmad, Rob Edwards is Middlesbrough's manager now.}

02 Oct 2025 18:06:08
We should stick to the plan for another 2 years and ignore the hyperbole a s the toxics who will never rubbish up until we are top of the league, its just insanity listening to the media driven nonsense thwt amorim has had 30 plus games. The guys not even had a quarter of a season with half a decent team. Utter nonsense to keep demanding changes of manager when we have had world class managers unable to work with the previous structure and appalling rudderless recruitment.

How I wish Ed 002 was still around to bring sanity to the nonsense on here. I've no doubt he would be saying that foundations have been laid but it takes time to build a cathedral, for those who are happy to keep demanding complete demolition of any progress.

We have made positive progress in some areas and we need to let someone like Amorim finish the job and accept that it takes time to get it right.

People were screaming about ten Hag having no plan, no vision no structure and no system, and in comes a guy with a clear system needing to go through massive restructuring and now we see him lambasted for it not being an instant success.

Depressing and illogical and of we change managers now that's another 2 years wasted of moving in the right direction with us having at least got rid of bad recruitment habits moved on dross and seeing some real green shoots of development.

You support rubbishty players we still have to get rid of yet another manager and you will get what you deserve and that's more of the same culture and behaviours we want to see banished from the club.

03 Oct 2025 09:49:42
ed001

Opps I did not know that lol and missed the news of him getting sacked.

{Ed001's Note - easy one to miss as news tends to focus on the Prem.}

30 Sep 2025 14:14:33
So let's talk managers.

I've been going through the list and for me there should only be 2 candidates

Glasner and Xavi.

One brings discipline and tactical flexibility, the other is an icon of the game who would instantly boost morale with his presence alone and push towards the Barcelona ideals.

Glasner currently plays the same formation as us but successfully. However, he has played different formations at the clubs he has been at. He plays the formation and system that suits the players he has, instead of being plan A or bust.

He is prem proven, unbeaten this season and wins trophies against the odds.

Downside: he's pragmatic which might not be considered the 'United way', if that means anything anymore.

Xavi meet Kobbie. There is no doubt in my mind that Xavi would make Kobbie the first player on his team sheet as he is the most Barcelona style midfielder in our team.

Martinez, Mazraoui, Yoro, Amad, Cunha, Zirkzee would all work well as technical profiles. After that though. who do you look to that would play his style. It might be another rebuild which we can't afford right now.

Long term his philosophy might work and we finally might play the attractive football that we all are hoping will return. Question is, can we take another risk?

What's everyone's thoughts who would you prefer?

30 Sep 2025 15:31:21
Looking forward to replies to this.

30 Sep 2025 15:43:43
1st off, they would be a "Coach", there is a difference, and 2nd we don't have a vacancy.

30 Sep 2025 15:56:01
Any manager that comes in may get some quick wins with a tweak to the system, but needs to make sure that they are able to ultimately get the team playing the system / way they want.

Glasner, would fit the direction we are currently going with probably a bit more flexibility/ pragmatism. He will still need new players in the same positions to really kick on.

Xavi, would likely go 433 (although I think he has played with 3 at the back previously as well. He would bring the Barcelona idea (alothough may take a while to get there) and Mainoo would be licking his lips at Xavi coming in and I coiuld see a lot of the yougsters being developed - Shea Lacey and the Fletcher boys spring to mind.

Southgate - No thanks.

30 Sep 2025 16:36:00
Xavi all day long, but from your list Martinez or Amad possibly Mazouri won’t get near a Xavi team, neither does Ugarte, Bruno does without doubt as does Cass, Mainoo, I reckon he would take the challenge too and commands immediate respect.
Glasner I think the personality does not lend itself to United and the constant pressure may also be a problem, it’s one thing leading palace to all the wins as underdog but when expected to win and huge ego’s and constant pressure may also I have concerns.
Xavi dealt with the biggest ego’s at Barcelona and was quite brilliant.

30 Sep 2025 16:54:36
One question - which system suits the players that we have? If anything did, it wouldn't be 12 years since the last PL trophy.

30 Sep 2025 17:01:02
I’m unconvinced by Xavi.

I’d sound out De Zerbi, Howe and Iraola first.

I like Glasner but I am beyond done with 3 at the back.
Palace with Wharton are a cheat code.

30 Sep 2025 18:28:53
Not convinced by Xavi…. he won la liga in first season against the odds… playing great football and played and won everything under some great managers, if nothing else that commands respect…where the others altogether not exactly won much or ever managed a big club either.
In my eyes Xavi much less of a risk than any of those mentioned….

30 Sep 2025 21:23:05
Amorim.

30 Sep 2025 21:35:47
Mainoo is average at best currently maybe he can become a great player but my doubts with his mobility and lacklustre pressure. Every one thinks he can be the difference but he’s done nothing on any sub app to show anything’s positive. I think he would probably suit the Italian league maybe on loan.

30 Sep 2025 23:00:40
What games are you watching twenty.
We are terrible when Mainoo isn't on the pitch, no cohesion between front and back.
It changes as soon as he comes on.

01 Oct 2025 04:58:06
I am no fan of Mainoo, he lacks pace and legs to cope in today’s game, but Jesus he must be better than what we have or at least be given a chance in a run of games, but RA just makes a decision and that’s end of, too stubborn, too stupid… now he been told you have to try reintegrate Malacia, against his wishes…… and why not it’s not as if the current team are doing any good, so surely use all at your disposal, so yes give Mainoo a chance, give Malacia a chance move Bruno to proper position, but oh no all to radical for this man and we stick with same ol crap again and again… clearly he on borrowed time there is not one pundit, ex player, ex manager, press person who believes it’s time, so no doubt that happens between now and 1st week of November.

01 Oct 2025 08:17:55
Honestly I’ll find it hard to get excited about any manager. We’ve tried so many profiles and ages without success that there’s obviously more to it than just that. I was delighted with Jose, I loved the idea of lvg and I was ecstatic with eth. When RA came I was really happy and look how that’s gone. Time will tell whoever we eventually get. I’ll have everything crossed that it’s the right one next time lol.

01 Oct 2025 08:54:01
I’d love to see Eddie Howe get the job.

Love how Newcastle play. He’s got every player fighting for every ball, the players seem to love him, and he seems to improve players. And he knows the prem.

30 Sep 2025 13:36:55
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30 Sep 2025 14:43:04
I agree that the next coach will face a tough job getting something out of this squad. However, this has been true of every coach since Fergie retired. Each new coach inherits an increasingly disjointed squad signed to play in a different system.

The biggest frustration is that INEOS promised to do things differently. Their plan was to put a sporting director in place who would dictate the overarching style of play throughout the club, and to sign a coach and players to fit this. But this plan was scrapped when the other directors overruled Ashworth and brought in Amorim.

It was an arrogant and short-sighted decision, and we now have a crop of new players specifically signed to play in Amorim’s system. Still, there’s no point continuing down the Amorim path when it clearly isn’t working. The most sensible option is to bring in a manager with experience in this league, and hope they can put together something with our hodgepodge squad.

Ultimately, not sticking to the original plan has taken the club backwards in the stated mission to challenge for titles.

30 Sep 2025 17:04:55
I think there’s a lot of talent in this squad with some talented players at U18.

Goalkeeper is TBC and midfield is now a priority with Anderson, Baleba and Wharton being linked.

I think the right person will be motivated and believe they can get more from this lot.

30 Sep 2025 17:42:55
Think our captain will still be an issue for the next manager, considering how temperamental he is you can only imagine what he is like behind closed doors in a system that neither needs nor benefits for his style of play. Will be gutted if he is at the root of this lack of effort/ cohesion. No doubt he’ll be sweetness and light for a couple of games if we go back to 4-3-3 which will only mask what has been an underlying issue for a while.

30 Sep 2025 18:00:47
If Amorim doesn't have the players for his system then by definition, neither would Glasner.

It would potentially be another rinse and repeat January and Summer transfer window spent trying to get the players in who would be best suited to the system.

We have zero ball carriers or legs in the middle of the park.
I don't even think 433 would fix this.

3 forward players was a mistake and this will also cause issues if a change to a different system is adopted.

I am out of ideas and appreciate the negative nature of my post but, I genuinely feel we are listless and so far behind other teams that we have a long, long road ahead of us.

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