Adam

Have to say Scott, I really enjoy your content on twitter, you are not afraid to ask difficult questions, always professional in your interactions and always willing to consider both sides to every story. Keep up the good work. I backed Amorim a lot, he was doing a lot of good things off the pitch, reseting the culture, getting rid of the bad eggs and installing standards - he wasnt affraid to make hard or uncomfortable calls as needed. He had a clear vision to where he wanted to get too but it required time, squad investment and high intensity players. People who hounded him out can only point to two things - win ratio and his treatment of Kobbie and I highly doubt ANY of them would backtrack and admit they were wrong - your average fan doesnt have the maturity to see the bigger picture or realise ALL the exact things they are currently defending & excusing Carrick for.. applied to Amorim as well. He had the same working conditions and environment Carrick did. The double standards and hypocrisy is off the chart. People conveniently ignore that we threw the league games in Amorims 1st season playing weaker sides to focus on the Europa league, a decision every fan agreed with at the time as it was the easier way to secure Champions League via that route and it was so close to being the right decision. He wasnt backed also. The board hired him to play his style without understanding how many players they needed to make that happen.. that was on the board. He had to replace 8-9 players and got 5. The drop off from the starting 11 to the backups was ridiculous. Then we was decimated by injuries in the December + Afcons was the final nail in his coffin. If the board let Carrick down they most certainly let Amorim down also. They bought him in and promised to back him with time and the correct players, then didnt give him either. If you can get him the system players he needs then why sign him in the first place. In the end Amorim took issue with Wilcox telling him how to manage the team and what formation to play.. The same Wilcox that everyone is now saying is incompetent, unfit for his job and should be sacked? So was Ruben that wrong to take issue with Wilcox telling him what to do? If Wilcox told Carrick to flex, start different players and change his formation, people would be in uproar getting the pitchforks out for Wilcox but when Amorim did it they backed Wilcox 🤣🤦🤷 make it make sense? In the end, the manager is never the biggest problem at this club. If its taken Carrick to wake some fans up to realise that then great 🙏 hopefully now the fans understand the difficult environment ALL Manchester United mangers have to operate in and support whoever is in the hotseat after Carrick... because sure as shit whoever takes over is going to need the fans support to stand any chance of building something sustainable.. The jury is still out on Ineos, without knowing exactly what involvement Glazers have on major decisions its hard to know if this is all on Ineos or if the Glazers are still slowly destroying the club just with another oarty taling the flack for it. What I do know is if this form continues and the fan backlash continues, Ineos will walk way or encourage Glazers for a full sale and until **something** changes in the ownership structure its going to be incredible challenging for ANY manager to succeed without a huge slice of luck, a ton of momentum and the ability to build a proper "us vs the world" mentality in that dressing room.... (and that ain't Carrick, he's too nice and too busy dreaming of 20 years ago when we was actually good) Sorry the essay! 🙏

Carrick is not THE problem... but he absolutely is right now is big part of this seasons problems. I loved the player, he was without doubt the most underrated player of the Fergie era, a silent assassin that just made us tick. He cares and loves the club and will forever be a friend to the club... But... Right now Manchester United need a coach that can grind out results with games every 3/4 days. They need a coach that can get a demoralised & battered group of players motivated and playing for each other. They need a coach that can coach wins and know when to park the bus, when to go for broke... dare I say it we need a coach that can inspire and put some belief into there players because like it or not we cant sell all of them!! Carrick as an interim bought all of that as he walked in as a friend to the players, he stopped the intense training sessions and gave them a few months rest from the intensity of Amorim. Problem is interim Carrick is NOT the same as Permanent coach Carrick. There is no hinding. There is no "well its better than Amorim" excuse.. in fact in isolation of this season its much worse than Amorim! Carrick doesn't have a plan, he isn't building any identity and nobody has a clue what system he is actually trying to play - not the fans or the players it seems. He certainly isn't inspiring any United DNA football. Its a total snooze fest. I love the guy, but all this.. "he's not the problem" "we should back him" is not it. He is a problem and we absolutely should be bringing in someone more experienced with a plan. Love for the club only gets you so far, in the PL you have to have a plan, a proper plan to maximise your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses otherwise most teams will eat you alive. As was preached under Amorim, if what you are doing isn't working then you have to adapt, go back to basics, make us hard to beat. If he cant even do that then he really needs to step aside.. Conte, Howe, Nagelsmann, hell even Mckenna or Ole would be better for us right now in our current situation. I'm confident and praying to god Utd are doing detailed interviews in the background and assessing who has the best plan to utilise the current squad, this season... plenty of managers could get more out of this squad than Carrick is currently, I dont believe this squad is as bad as our current league position suggests. I do feel bad for bad for him, his whole gameplan has been decimated with injuries just like it was for ETH and Ruben.. but also just like them there has got to be an element of "but is he getting the best out of what who he does have available" and the answer is sadly, NO And before anyone says it, I totally get and agree that the owners, mainly the Glazers are the real problem.. but we are where we are and just like the all other 19 PL managers you've got what squad you've got when the window shuts... and quite frankly until our financial position improves or the Glazers piss off its probably not going to get any better any time soon on the investment front. We need a manager that can operate with what we have.