They have a song in the old club of Ruben Amorim.
Entitled “A Marcha Do Sporting”, it is the official national anthem of the CP, and it is sung in my way of Frank Sinatra.
It is difficult to shake the suspicion that it was quite literally rubbed with the Manchester United manager.
Should Amorim leave the club in the near future and despite the guarantees from United in the opposite, the Portuguese are, among other things, control than ever after Sunday’s 3-0 Derby defeat against Manchester City-Zou, the Sinatra classic undoubtedly make a suitable epitaph.
Nobody could deny that Amorim did things in his own way at Old Trafford. Indeed, it has been his rally-cry, a challenging message that the 40-year-old will adhere to his weapons-in this case his beloved 3-4-3 or 3-4-2-1 System-Hell or High Water.
It does not matter whether, despite a summer spending of more than £ 200 million, he misses the staff to make it work. Let alone the 15th place of last season. It does not matter that the club has passed its worst start of a competition season in 33 years, or that the players seem to lose confidence in his methods. Amorim, whose profit percentage of 36.17% is the worst of every united manager since the Second World War, it is not to change.
‘I play my way and play my way until I want to change’
“I will not change my philosophy,” Amorim said after looking at Erling Haaland, add a brace to Phil Foden’s first half Opener for City. “If [United] Wanting it to change, you change the man. I’m not going to change my philosophy. We are talking about this [after] Every game we lose. I play my way and play my way until I want to change. ‘
Apart from the point that Amorim was quite literally Sinatra at this stage, long -term concerns about his approach is only growing. Concern that Amorim’s way is not the right way. That too many square pegs are still pressed into too many round holes. That a United Manager must be more adaptable. That the club captain Bruno Fernandes is being used too deeply, while the midfielder of England Kobbie Mainoo is not used at all. Amorim is even mocked by bookmakers. Where will it all end?
“I think there will be some pressure to the manager and his stiffness of holding the system,” former United Full-back Gary Neville told Sky Sports. “A new defeat and big questions would be asked with Chelsea next week.
‘United is struggling to find rhythm, pace, performance levels’
“There must be a change fairly quickly and the idea of the manager has to land very quickly with the players.
“They have difficulty finding rhythm, to find pace, to find performance levels. I am worried about the manager, I am worried about what will happen in the coming weeks. I don’t think it’s a time for panic, but I have seen this before, we have seen this film.”
Neville’s concerns were reflected by the former club captain Roy Keane, who also expressed concern about Amorim’s slavish dedication to his tactical blueprint and the lack of progress of the team.
“You talk about the system, but the manager has arrived and sticks to his weapons,” said Keane. “He doesn’t come. The results – and we look at points per game, goals for, goals against – it makes me busy. It is not a good reading.
“How long do you stay waiting?”
“We keep apologizing, but when will we see the signs? People say: Give managers time. Of course. But we saw [Arne] Slot goes to Liverpool – and Liverpool was a better team than united season last season – but in the end he won the competition.
‘Other managers, you see [Thomas] Frank, going on track, and you see drawing that they are getting better. How long do you stay waiting if you continue to get a point? “
That question is now being asked with increasing urgency. Amorim may not be opposite the last curtain yet, but, with Chelsea and Sunderland on the other side of a trip to Brentford, a revival of the results cannot come fast enough.
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