{"id":123977,"date":"2025-05-23T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123977\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T01:13:13","slug":"romano-reveals-completely-crazy-amorim-sack-verdict-with-squad-split-on-axe-amid-one-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/123977\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano reveals &#8216;completely crazy&#8217; Amorim sack verdict with squad &#8216;split&#8217; on axe amid one concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has refused to rule out the prospect of Manchester United sacking Ruben Amorim after the Europa League final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/ruben-amorim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amorim<\/strong> <\/a>has had a torrid time since replacing Erik ten Hag towards the end of 2024 as he\u2019s struggled to implement his preferred 3-4-3 formation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s performances under Amorim have been worse than they were during Ten Hag\u2019s tenure as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>they could still finish 17th in the Premier League this season.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils have lost 18 Premier League games this season, while they also came up short in the FA Cup, Carabao Cup and Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Man Utd had their biggest game of the 2024\/25 campaign on Wednesday night, but they did not turn up as they were deservedly beaten 1-0 by Spurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-europa-league-final-reaction-opinion-ruben-amorim-future-jim-ratcliffe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rock-bottom for Amorim and Man Utd? No, it really could get worse\u2026<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This result leaves Man Utd with a limited transfer budget ahead of a season without European football and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-sack-race-next-manager-to-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amorim remains one of the favourites to be the next Premier League manager sacked.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man Utd\u2019s displays under Amorim have been pretty shambolic, but it would still be pretty unfair to sack him before he\u2019s had the opportunity to build a squad that\u2019s more suited to his system.<\/p>\n<p>It has consistently been reported in recent weeks that the head coach would retain Man Utd\u2019s backing even if they lost to Spurs in the Europa League final and this is likely the case, but Romano has not shut the exit door completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message we are getting from Manchester United is that they stick with the manager. They support the manager,\u201d Romano insisted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-16-conclusions-spurs-manchester-united-europa-league-amorim-postecoglou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00a016 Conclusions on Spurs winning the Europa League: Amorim sack, Postecoglou vindication, terrible Manchester United<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/rio-ferdinand-blames-25m-man-utd-star-europa-league-final-defeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rio Ferdinand blames \u00a325m Man Utd star for Europa League final defeat to Tottenham<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-ten-man-utd-tottenham-players-axed-europa-league-final\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ten Europa League final players who should be axed in Man Utd, Spurs rebuilds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey believe Ruben Amorim is the right man for the job. So Manchester United\u2019s intention is to continue with Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo unless something completely crazy happens, which is something that sometimes in football can happen after big disappointments, but the clear idea of the club is to continue with Ruben Amorim and to support Ruben Amorim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-14740621\/Man-United-Ruben-Amorim-Europa-League.html\" target=\"_blank\"> report from The Daily Mail claims<\/a> Man Utd\u2019s squad are \u2018split\u2019 on Amorim amid one main concern.<\/p>\n<p>While it is noted that co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the rest of United\u2019s board are \u2018standing by\u2019 Amorim, there is a clash \u2018over their support of the head coach\u2019 in the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>It is pointed out that Bruno Fernandes, Luke Shaw and Diogo Dalot backed Amorim publicly after the loss to Spurs, but other players do not agree.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018A number of other players feel the 40-year-old is too over-confident in his approach, and cannot understand why he puts so much faith in a playing system that is not suited to the squad he inherited in November.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano has refused to rule out the prospect of Manchester United sacking Ruben Amorim after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20110,13,225,98,12,101,99,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-123977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fabrizio-romano","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-ruben-amorim","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114554497054401612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}