Amorim Nos Intentó Advertir Sobre El Manchester United. — Transcript

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1. 0:00Nine months ago, a coach said out loud
2. 0:02what no Manchester United executive
3. 0:04wanted to hear. He said that it wasn't
4. 0:06just the coach who had to do his job,
5. 0:08but that every department had to do
6. 0:10theirs. The next day, he was fired.
7. 0:12Today that team is in thirteenth place,
8. 0:14hasn't won in six games, and their
9. 0:16center-back just repeated almost the
10. 0:18same thing. In other words, Amorim
11. 0:20tried to warn us about Manchester
12. 0:22United. The question is whether he was
13. 0:24right. Let's start with what is
14. 0:26happening right now. This Sunday,
15. 0:28United drew 1-1 at Leeds with a goal
16. 0:29from Mbeumo and an equalizer by
17. 0:31Calvert-Lewin after a poorly cleared
18. 0:33corner. It is their third consecutive
19. 0:351-1 draw. With that draw, United has
20. 0:37seven points in seven matchdays, one
21. 0:39win, four draws, and two losses. It is
22. 0:41their worst win total at this stage of
23. 0:43a season in 40 years according to Goal,
24. 0:45and they haven't won in six official
25. 0:47matches; meanwhile, on Tuesday, they
26. 0:49lost 2-0 at Atlético de Madrid in the
27. 0:51Champions League. It was after that
28. 0:53defeat that Lisandro Martínez said
29. 0:55something the club didn't expect. We'll
30. 0:57see that later, but first let me take
31. 0:59you to what Amorim said, because
32. 1:00there's a trap here. It is very easy to
33. 1:03say now that Amorim was right, but the
34. 1:04real story is more uncomfortable. In
35. 1:06this video, I am going to show you
36. 1:08exactly what he warned about, which
37. 1:09part has come true, and which part
38. 1:11hasn't. And watch out, because there is
39. 1:13data that makes him look bad too. My
40. 1:15thesis is this. He was right about
41. 1:17something important, but not about
42. 1:19everything. Amorim arrived in November
43. 1:212024 to replace Erik ten Hag, and the
44. 1:23United he inherited was already broken.
45. 1:26In January 2025, after losing 3-1 at
46. 1:29home to Brighton, the team was 13th
47. 1:31with 26 points in 22 games and 10
48. 1:34league defeats. That day he said his
49. 1:36squad was perhaps the worst in the
50. 1:38club's history. It was an exaggeration,
51. 1:40and the press reminded him of it. But
52. 1:42what he meant was something else. He
53. 1:44meant that the problem wasn't just
54. 1:45tactics. It was the squad, the signings
55. 1:48, the structure, and the structure
56. 1:49wasn't helping either. Sporting
57. 1:51director Dan Ashworth left after only
58. 1:53five months in the job. Amorim
59. 1:55commented on it calmly. He said that
60. 1:57one person leaving doesn't change
61. 1:58anything. Months later, that phrase
62. 2:00sounds different. The season ended with
63. 2:02United in 15th place, their worst
64. 2:04Premier League finish of the entire era
65. 2:06. And keep in mind, Jim Ratcliffe
66. 2:08himself had said three months before
67. 2:09Amorim's departure that he needed three
68. 2:11years. In other words, the board itself
69. 2:14had said their project needed time, yet
70. 2:16that time never came. To understand why
71. 2:19Amorim complained about the squad, you
72. 2:20have to look at who he had. When he
73. 2:22arrived, he was coming from managing
74. 2:24Sporting Lisbon and inherited a group
75. 2:26with several expensive signings that
76. 2:28hadn't performed as expected. Maguire,
77. 2:30Højlund, Antony, Casemiro, Onana,
78. 2:32Zirkzee. That was pointed out in an
79. 2:35analysis by AFP in January 2025, and
80. 2:37time proved them partly right. This
81. 2:40summer, United transferred Højlund to
82. 2:43Napoli for 38 million pounds and let
83. 2:45Casemiro, Sancho, and Malacia leave
84. 2:47when their contracts ended. In short,
85. 2:50the club ended up getting rid of many
86. 2:52of those names, but two seasons had
87. 2:54already passed. That same analysis
88. 2:56stated that the owners 'decisions had
89. 2:58been inconsistent. First, they wavered
90. 3:01with Ten Hag, and they removed sporting
91. 3:03director Ashworth after 5 months. When
92. 3:06everything changes so quickly, it's
93. 3:07hard to build anything. It all started
94. 3:09with a phrase about money. When asked
95. 3:11about his 3-4-3, Amorim said that to
96. 3:14play it perfectly, you needed to spend
97. 3:16a lot and have time. It didn't sound
98. 3:18like a complaint; it sounded like a
99. 3:19bill he already saw coming. And then
100. 3:21January 2026 arrived. After the 1-1
101. 3:24draw at Leeds on January 4th, he
102. 3:25dropped the line that changed
103. 3:27everything: that he had come to be the
104. 3:28manager of Manchester United, not just
105. 3:30the head coach, and that it would be
106. 3:32that way for 18 months or until the
107. 3:34board decided to change it. It sounded
108. 3:36like an ultimatum, but what weighed
109. 3:37most came right after. He said that
110. 3:40every department, the scouts and the
111. 3:41sporting director, had to do their jobs
112. 3:43. And when a coach says that in public,
113. 3:46he isn't talking about his players;
114. 3:47he's talking about those who sign them.
115. 3:50Take note of something. The three
116. 3:51phrases have something in common. None
117. 3:53of them talk about the pitch. They talk
118. 3:56about who decides, who signs, and who
119. 3:57is in charge. The next day, January 5th
120. 4:00, United fired him. He had been there
121. 4:02for 14 months. The club stated that
122. 4:04management had made the decision with
123. 4:06regret and that it was the right time
124. 4:07for a change. According to The Athletic
125. 4:09, the decision was made by the sporting
126. 4:11leadership with Berrada and Wilcox
127. 4:12after a breakdown in internal relations
128. 4:14. And The Telegraph reported that he
129. 4:16had argued with Wilcox about his 3-4-3.
130. 4:19These are press versions, not facts
131. 4:20confirmed by the club. And now the
132. 4:22counterweight, because his numbers on
133. 4:24the bench were terrible. In 63 games,
134. 4:26he won 24, a 38.1%success rate. In the
135. 4:31Premier League, 15 wins in 47 matches
136. 4:33and 19 losses, an average of 1.23
137. 4:35points per game, the worst of any
138. 4:37United manager in the Premier League
139. 4:39era. And then comes the most
140. 4:41uncomfortable part for my thesis,
141. 4:42Michael Carrick. After a brief stint by
142. 4:45Darren Fletcher, Carrick took over as
143. 4:47interim and United changed instantly.
144. 4:50In 17 matches he won 12 and earned 39
145. 4:51more points than any other Premier
146. 4:53League team in that stretch, won four
147. 4:55straight games immediately, finished
148. 4:56third, and secured the Champions League
149. 4:58with a 3-2 victory against Liverpool at
150. 5:00Old Trafford with three games to spare
151. 5:02—and look at how he changed it.
152. 5:04According to Sports Illustrated, he
153. 5:06simplified the tactics and instructions
154. 5:08, moved away from Amorim's complex
155. 5:10system, and returned Kobbie Mainoo to
156. 5:11the starting 11 with a key role
157. 5:13starting in January. In other words,
158. 5:15much of the improvement was tactical.
159. 5:17That is a serious point against Amorim.
160. 5:19So, why is United falling again? This
161. 5:22is where Amorim's words ring true again
162. 5:24, because United spent 155 million
163. 5:25pounds this summer on three or four
164. 5:27signings focused on the midfield, but
165. 5:29ended up without clear reinforcements
166. 5:31on the left flank and up front. And on
167. 5:34Tuesday, Lisandro Martinez said it
168. 5:36after the defeat in Madrid, "We expect
169. 5:37more from above to bring in more
170. 5:39players to compete." And he added that
171. 5:41he expected more from the technical
172. 5:43director and said, "You cannot keep
173. 5:44changing, changing, changing the
174. 5:46manager and the other areas." Look,
175. 5:48that sentence is almost the same as
176. 5:49Amorim's. 9 months later. Every
177. 5:51department has to do its job. And mind
178. 5:54you, Lisandro also warned that if they
179. 5:56don't change, next season will be a big
180. 5:58problem. The club fined him, and he
181. 6:00issued a statement to clarify his words
182. 6:02. Carrick, for his part, said after the
183. 6:05draw in Leeds that a point is a point
184. 6:07and called it a step forward. He said
185. 6:09he didn't see Lisandro's full interview
186. 6:10. Prudent, but with the team in 13th
187. 6:13place, patience doesn't last long.
188. 6:15According to BBC journalist Simon Stone
189. 6:18with sources at United, the club
190. 6:20accepts it was a mistake not to sign a
191. 6:22fullback and a striker. If that is true
192. 6:25, it is an important admission because
193. 6:27it coincides exactly with what Lisandro
194. 6:29is demanding now. And here I want to
195. 6:31stop because this is not about one
196. 6:33manager. United returned to the
197. 6:34Champions League this season after 3
198. 6:36years of absence. It was the sign that
199. 6:39the club had climbed out of the hole,
200. 6:40and seven matchdays later the team is
201. 6:42looking down at the table again. They
202. 6:44were only two points from relegation
203. 6:46with Nottingham Forest in 18th. That
204. 6:49means United can improve a lot with a
205. 6:50coach who organizes, but they fall back
206. 6:52down if there's no structure below to
207. 6:54support that improvement. It’s what
208. 6:57Amorim said in his own words and it’s
209. 6:58what Lisandro says in his. And there is
210. 7:00something more. 9 months ago, Amorim's
211. 7:02quote was read as a personal attack,
212. 7:04like the tantrum of someone who was
213. 7:06losing. Today, a player from the team
214. 7:08itself says something very similar and
215. 7:10gets criticized by Rooney and Carragher
216. 7:11for speaking publicly. The message
217. 7:13barely changes. What changes is who
218. 7:15says it and when. Now for the devil's
219. 7:18advocate. Let's start with Lisandro.
220. 7:20His contract is in its final stretch
221. 7:21and some in the locker room say he went
222. 7:23too far. Rooney and Carragher
223. 7:25criticized him. Besides, seven
224. 7:27matchdays are few and Carrick is
225. 7:28testing a five-defender system without
226. 7:30the ball that makes the team more solid
227. 7:32, though toothless up front. The squad
228. 7:34must also be defended. Mbeumo and Sesko
229. 7:37finished last season with 12 goals each
230. 7:39and Bruno Fernandes created 136 chances
231. 7:41, nearly double the second best in the
232. 7:43Premier. In other words, that squad
233. 7:46which Amorim called perhaps the worst
234. 7:47in history had good pieces. That
235. 7:49weakens his complaint. But the hardest
236. 7:51part for my thesis is this. If the
237. 7:53problem were only the structure, it
238. 7:55wouldn't explain how with the same
239. 7:57structure Carrick earned 39 points in
240. 7:5917 games. Something changed on the
241. 8:01field and that can't just be luck. A
242. 8:03report from the Daily Mail says that
243. 8:04Wilcox is tied up by Ratcliff. The BBC,
244. 8:06for its part, says that Wilcox is not
245. 8:08in danger, although according to Simon
246. 8:10Stone, the club accepts it was a
247. 8:12mistake not to sign a fullback and a
248. 8:14forward. So, what do I believe? That
249. 8:16Amorim was right in his diagnosis, but
250. 8:17not in his prescription. He was right
251. 8:19that United had a problem with
252. 8:21structure, signings, and decisions, but
253. 8:23his prescription, the rigid 3-4-3,
254. 8:25didn't work and the data proves it.
255. 8:28Let’s tally the score with my
256. 8:29interpretation. The bit about money and
257. 8:31time was half-fulfilled. United spent
258. 8:33155 million this summer, but Amorim was
259. 8:35already gone and with Carrick the team
260. 8:37improved without that spending. Being a
261. 8:40manager and not a coach is the most
262. 8:42debatable point. It could be read as a
263. 8:44power grab and his departure suggests
264. 8:46as much. And the part about the
265. 8:48departments, what matters most is what
266. 8:50today seems truer: one true, one
267. 8:52half-true, and one debatable. Not bad
268. 8:54for someone who was fired, but not a
269. 8:56perfect score either. And look at what
270. 8:57happened with Carrick. The problem
271. 8:59seemed to disappear, but it was a
272. 9:01breather, not a cure, because when the
273. 9:03structure remains the same, the
274. 9:04problems return, even if the coach
275. 9:06changes. That is what Lisandro says and
276. 9:08it is what Amorim said first. United
277. 9:10has changed coaches several times in
278. 9:12less than two years and the underlying
279. 9:14questions remain unanswered. So tell me
280. 9:16, was Amorim the problem or was he the
281. 9:18only one to say it out loud? I'll read
282. 9:20your thoughts in the comments.