{"id":333,"date":"2025-09-29T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:59:13","slug":"ruben-amorim-i-wanted-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"R\u00faben Amorim: I Wanted to Believe\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be writing something like this so soon after R\u00faben Amorim promised that the good times would return to Old Trafford, at the end of last season. Like many fans, I wanted to believe him. The manager would bring back some pride, some direction, and a bit of hope that\u2019s been missing for far too long. But here we are again. Another week, another defeat that feels like a step backwards, and a team that looks lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first few weeks of the season, it looked as though Amorim might be on to something, finally. The players seemed sharper, more organised, more confident. You could feel a bit of energy back in the stands again. But versus Brentford, that spark had gone. The performance dipped, the result spoke volumes, and we\u2019re back to wondering, how many more false dawns do we have to live through?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, like many others, I don\u2019t know what our style of play is more often than not. The 3-4-3 Amorim loves just doesn\u2019t seem to suit this squad. It leaves us open, our midfield overrun, and our forwards cut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not just losing that hurts, it\u2019s the manner of it. The sideways passes, the lack of urgency, the confusion when we\u2019re pressed. It feels like we\u2019re trying to force a system that the players either don\u2019t understand or don\u2019t believe in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can tell by watching them, there\u2019s hesitation, frustration, a sense of uncertainty. It\u2019s hard to build confidence when no one looks comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, though, it\u2019s not all on him. This club has been through too many managers, too many \u201cprojects,\u201d and not enough real rebuilding. Every time we start again, we end up here. A few months into the season, questioning if we\u2019ve made the right call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amorim inherited a broken squad and a fanbase that\u2019s tired of excuses. It\u2019s a tough job for anyone. I still believe there\u2019s a talented coach there, Amorim wants to do things the right way. But the Premier League is unforgiving. You don\u2019t get much time to learn on the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stick or Twist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\u2026 should he be sacked? Honestly, I don\u2019t know anymore. My heart says give him time. My head says we\u2019ve seen this movie before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the players have already stopped believing, then it\u2019s probably too late. But if there\u2019s even a small chance that Amorim can steady things, maybe he deserves that chance. The problem is patience is in short supply around here, and trust is even harder to come by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sad thing is none of this feels new. It\u2019s just another chapter in a story we\u2019ve been living for over a decade. A manager arrives, we hope, we hype, it fades, it ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the problem isn\u2019t Amorim. Maybe it\u2019s us. Maybe it\u2019s the overhaul of changes higher up. Maybe it is the current structure, the recruitment process or the direction the hierarchy are pushing us towards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted this to work. I really did. But right now, it feels like we\u2019re drifting again. And as a fan, that\u2019s the hardest thing to watch. Not failure, not defeat, but that slow fade from hope to resignation. I still hope Amorim proves us wrong. But right now, it just feels inevitable. How long do INEOS leave it before changing the manager again? They can\u2019t afford another season of failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be writing something like this so soon after R\u00faben Amorim promised that the good times would return to Old Trafford, at the end of last season. Like many fans, I wanted to believe him. The manager would bring back some pride, some direction, and a bit of hope that\u2019s been missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theutdjournal.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}