Harry Maguire: ‘I really like Ruben, he’s got great ideas. They just didn’t work at Manchester United’ | The Guardian

Harry class act as always

Harry Maguire is one of the nicest blokes around, if the journalist writing this was hoping to get something spicy, he’s barking up the wrong tree.

If Maguire has any interest and any tactical nous he’d make a great manager.

Exactly.Ruben’s ideas are awesome and always work, in his head.

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@amorim

Outside of the kinds of games that ETH and Amorim both had successes in themselves (playing counter-punch vs sides that come onto United), we’ve seen a number of performances under Carrick as disjointed as anything under Amorim, certainly Amorim 2nd season . For Everton, read Newcastle with 10 men. West Ham performances were similar too. The side had top 3 XG before he left. Sesko has settled in more and has bailed the side out on numerous occasions. Bruno has been played further up, which has helped but also exposed a lack of midfield options and control, which has seen a number of poor midfield performances in terms of control, again bailed out somewhat by the combination of Bruno and Sesko. But even some of that being ‘bailed out’, which you can attribute to a positional shift in BF’s case, is down to players finishing slightly better. Amorim wasn’t stopping players from getting in good goalscoring areas or discouraging attacking play, no matter what other criticisms you can levy at RA. It’s not about absolving him, but trying to put things in perspective: just like Emery made Villa good but not as good as their position seemed to indicate (through the fluke of exceeding XG) and they’ve tailed off somewhat due to a partial ‘correction’ as well as a couple of injuries. There are still real weaknesses in this squad, which Amorim was already correcting, even if it didn’t click well enough.

Conte’s Chelsea players were able to be a ‘leading’ side and play 3 at the back -it shouldn’t be that hard for players to learn and execute it. Maybe Amorim was too loyal to hiscoaching team as well as being slightly too obdurate and needed a combination of ‘switching’ more often in games between the shapes (he did a bit, but was perhaps too set on trying to instill the style) And bringing in a senior coach to complement his team who the players would trust, maybe a ‘Holland’. Nevertheless, they played some cohesive, structurally good football and if he’s taking over a side recruited better for in the medium-term (with a proper progressive ball-carrier also able to deal with the defensive side of things in duels rather than whatever poor approximation Ugarte ended up being) and a veteran clinical striker to alternate with BS whilst he was settling in, United are in a better position at the point when he was sacked…and he doesn’t get sacked. Added to which, of course, was the inordinate impact of the AFCON, not something Carrick has had to deal with.