Tag: Manchester United

A hidden winner of the Ruben Amorim hire by Manchester United
4Nov By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Premier League

A hidden winner of the Ruben Amorim hire by Manchester United

Manchester United shook up the footballing world by replacing Erik ten Hag with Ruben Amorim, firing one of world football's most underperforming managers for one of world football's most coveted. Before taking the Manchester United job and agreeing to lead one of the sport's shakiest and most ambitious rebuilding projects, Amorim had rejected easier jobs at Liverpool and Brighton. Amorim values the position and upside of the Manchester United position despite the club's poor record since Sir Alex Ferguson's departure, and he checks off a lot of boxes as far as the kind of manager Man United are looking for. Specifically, Amorim brings a much more aggressive attacking style and clearer attacking philosophy tactically than Ten Hag ever did, so young talents like Joshua Zirkzee, Ras...
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Ruben Amorim will be getting a huge gift to help him win his first Manchester United game
4Nov By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Premier League

Ruben Amorim will be getting a huge gift to help him win his first Manchester United game

New Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim will take over the club on Nov. 11, and his first actual game as the official head coach will take place on Nov. 24 against newly promoted Premier League side Ipswich Town and their manager Kieran McKenna, once linked to the Man United gig. Amorim comes to Old Trafford with a ton of hype, as he was one of the most coveted managers on the open market, turning down other high-profile jobs before ultimately settling on the Manchester United vacancy after the club finally moved on from Erik ten Hag. Manchester United would be heavy favorites against Ipswich regardless of the coach, so this matchup is an opportunity for the former Sporting CP manager to make a statement to the rest of the Premier League. And it sounds like Amorim will get a ni...
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Manchester United are already after their first Ruben Amorim transfer target
4Nov By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Premier League

Manchester United are already after their first Ruben Amorim transfer target

Manchester United have hired Sporting CP manager Ruben Amorim as their Erik ten Hag replacement, as the highly-coveted Portuguese manager will officially take over the club on Nov. 11 from interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy. Amorim was wanted by clubs as big as Tottenham and Liverpool in the past, and he appeared to be close to the Reds last summer as the Jurgen Klopp replacement before ultimately turning the job down. In fact, Amorim turned down a lot of gigs, including the Brighton job as Roberto De Zerbi's replacement, before deciding to take the Manchester United opening after Ten Hag got the sack this season. Amorim appears to relish the responsibility of lifting Manchester United out of a dark period - a task that not even three legendary managers could do in Jose Mourinho,...
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Manchester United’s secret best player of the season stars again
3Nov By Joe SorianoNo Comments
Premier League

Manchester United’s secret best player of the season stars again

Manchester United vs. Chelsea was tabbed as the biggest game to watch in European football this weekend, but it ended up being a putrid game of football for the neutral fan. In the end, as pundit and Man United legend Paul Scholes quipped, it ended up being a deserved 1-1 draw for two high-priced sides whose quality on the pitch pales in comparison to the finances it took to assemble both squads. Manchester United can be pleased to get a point off a team contending for the Champions League, as they are shifting gears to welcoming a new manager on Nov. 11 with Ruben Amorim set to take over after a disastrous start to the season orchestrated by now former manager Erik ten Hag. Despite the dismal performances from Man United, who sit in the bottom half of the Premier League table, th...
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Manchester United secretly talking to four Erik ten Hag replacements
26Oct By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Premier League

Manchester United secretly talking to four Erik ten Hag replacements

Manchester United are thinking more and more about parting ways with Erik ten Hag, and they already surprised the majority of the footballing world this past summer when they decided to keep the manager in charge. Ten Hag led Man United to one of their worst seasons of the Premier League era, finishing eighth, but he seemingly saved his job in the eyes of new ownership group INEOS by beating Manchester City to win the FA Cup Final and qualify for the Europa League. So far this season, things have only gotten worse for Manchester United despite a summer of significant transfer investment at all levels of the squad, as the Red Devils are buried in the bottom half of the table after eight matches. As the dropped points continue to pile up, Manchester United are reportedly already hol...
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Manchester United going for another top Real Madrid transfer target
25Oct By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
LaLiga, Premier League

Manchester United going for another top Real Madrid transfer target

Manchester United already played spoiler to Real Madrid on the transfer market this past summer, as they were willing to spend 60 million euros in order to sign Leny Yoro, whose Lille were not at all interested in the threat of losing the teenage center back for free in summer 2025. So Juni Calafat's dream transfer target at center back - and the best young player at the position - went to Man United, where he has yet to play due to a preseason injury. But hopes are high for Yoro at Manchester United, especially with fellow summer center back signing Matthijs de Ligt not quite impressing. And it looks like the Red Devils aren't done with trying to compete against Real Madrid for top players on the market. Already, Manchester United are pushing increasingly hard for impending free ...
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Transfer Rumors: Manchester United could sign another top target ahead of Real Madrid
25Oct By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
LaLiga, Premier League

Transfer Rumors: Manchester United could sign another top target ahead of Real Madrid

Manchester United surprised a lot of people this summer when they successfully signed Leny Yoro, the most coveted central defender on the transfer market, ahead of serious interest from Real Madrid. In fact, many saw Real Madrid as a guaranteed landing spot for Yoro with how heavily Juni Calafat was pushing for the Lille star, as Real viewed him as a generational talent and began to prioritize him over another player with one year left on his contract, Alphonso Davies. Instead, Manchester United were willing to spend 60 million euros on Yoro right up front in the summer market, whereas Real Madrid wanted Yoro at a steeply discounted price, hoping the player would hold out for another year in order to join them for free in 2025. Lille weren't about to let that happen, reportedly ev...
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UEL Preview: The biggest threat for Man Utd, Tottenham, and Roma to watch on Matchday 3
23Oct By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Features, Premier League, Serie A

UEL Preview: The biggest threat for Man Utd, Tottenham, and Roma to watch on Matchday 3

Roma vs. AZ Alkmaar: Ruben van Bommel, LW The son of Mark van Bommel, Ruben van Bommel actually has a different stylistic comparison to an iconic footballer - former Manchester United, PSG, and Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria. As Roma reel from another tough defeat this past weekend against defending Serie A champions Inter Milan, the Giallorossi are hoping to get back on the right track on the European stage against AZ Alkmaar, who are the toughest team any of these three big European sides will be going up against in this week's Europa League action. Alkmaar are fourth in the Dutch top flight right now, tied on points with heavyweights Feyenoord and Ajax, and in Van Bommel, they have one of the league's most exciting talents. Van Bommel has made the left wing his home this se...
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EPL Transfers: An underrated target for Man Utd, Tottenham, and Aston Villa
23Oct By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Features, Premier League

EPL Transfers: An underrated target for Man Utd, Tottenham, and Aston Villa

Aston Villa: Mattia Viti, CB for Empoli While I do agree with the overarching sentiment that Aston Villa need to prioritize the right back position on the transfer market, I also don't think it would hurt to pursue a U23 talent at the center back position to back up the stalwart tandem of Ezri Konsa and Pau Torres. There are a number of talented young center backs in Ligue 1 worth monitoring closely during the 2024/25 season in preparation for this coming summer's transfer window, but I would also like to point out that Serie A has been a quality producer of central defensive talent for the Premier League in recent seasons. Tottenham have gone to that well successfully, and Aston Villa could do the same. Empoli's Mattia Viti is a 22-year-old center back who could figure nicely as a ...
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EPL burning questions: Arsenal’s title hopes, Jadon Sancho flops, Rasmus Hojlund shines
21Oct By Kevin ParviziNo Comments
Features, Premier League

EPL burning questions: Arsenal’s title hopes, Jadon Sancho flops, Rasmus Hojlund shines

Is Arsenal's status as Premier League title contenders at risk? What can Chelsea count on from Jadon Sancho? And how good is Manchester United strike Rasmus Hojlund? Read on as I attempt to answer these three burning questions from three of the Premier League's biggest clubs. Is Rasmus Hojlund better than everyone thinks? Manchester United's best player in their all-important 2-1 win over Brentford, in which Erik ten Hag's job was very likely on the line, was undoubtedly young attacker Alejandro Garnacho on the left wing. But Rasmus Hojlund was another young Manchester United attacker who also had a fantastic performance and, from the perspective of predicting future performance, may have had the most important display of any starter on the Red Devils. Hojlund was one of world f...
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