When the Post published an article discussing Manchester United's management issues, it criticized Ratcliffe's series of decisions.
The article said that as early as March this year, when Ratcliff talked about his relationship with Amorin with the Telegraph, he said: "Every time I go to the training base, I will talk to Amorin. I will sit down and have a cup of coffee with him and tell him what went wrong... and he will say f*** off in front of me, I like him."
Recalling this passage five months later, you can feel the profound meaning and its impact on Manchester United today. Ratcliff certainly doesn't like what happened in Greensby on Wednesday night, and you have to wonder if Largo has enjoyed any moment in the 18 months after the high price acquisition of the club. He has invested more than 1.3 billion pounds here to repair the dilapidated castle, which is so expensive to maintain, yet new problems arise every week.
The decisions made by Manchester United have made almost no confidence, and at the same time, the team's ranking in the Premier League has also been declining. Who benefited? Glazer family. We can imagine that they like La Jue very much. Often people like Glazer spend huge amounts of money on PR to maintain their image, but this time they changed their strategy. Ratcliffe paid them, and changed the individual to be called "bastard" in the game, which was probably the smartest deal the Glazer family has ever made.
To understand Ratcliff's shortcomings in sports management, we can start with Amorin. He is very persistent in his playing style, especially the 3421, and he has not wavered even in the worst Premier League season in Manchester United's history. He continued the system into this season, which is why his best player and captain B Fei were placed further back in three games, away from the frontcourt where he was best at and could play the most influential. In Amorin's philosophy, the system is supreme and never compromises. If you tell Amorin that he was wrong, he might make you go out like he did with Ratcliff.
Amorin's belief is he has superpowers, or is he lacking in imagination? Judging from the current results, the conclusion is not optimistic. However, spending a few minutes with Amorin, or even just a cup of coffee, can inspire confidence in him. Maybe it’s because of his affinity, frank attitude and good speech, maybe it’s because of the understanding we give to a coach who took over the mess, or maybe we just have a natural resonance with the tortured artists deep down?
Ratcliffe's experience in the sports world is a series of adventures and is easily confused by those who are good at speaking. He is widely regarded as a tough and indomitable man, and this impression comes from not only his drastic cuts to Manchester United’s budget, but also his successful experience as an industrialist. However, emotions are becoming his weakness.
Keeping Brasford away from Manchester United was a wise decision by Ratcliffe, but United insiders denied that Brasford was a failed appointment and believed that Carrington's transformation was the wealth he left behind. In the sports world, many people have worked with him or competed with him, and they have doubts about it when they learn about his role at Manchester United. Now, there is no evidence of what Brasford has achieved at Manchester United, and like Ashworth's brief tenure, it has become a proof of Ratcliffe's decision-making mistakes.
Just as Ratcliff misjudged the issue of Tenhach's stay or stay, he also had problems in dealing with Greenwood, not to mention dealing with Premier League financial rules. Will the club really go bankrupt before Christmas without large-scale layoffs? All of these decisions undoubtedly have suffered disappointing results to varying degrees, and now we have re-examined the decision to choose Amorin.
Amorin is said to be a good guy, Ratcliffe blocked everything for him and supported him wherever he could, including abandoning Rashford and Garnacho, and spending huge sums of money on the transfer market this summer. We are reserved about whether we can achieve the desired results, but we can indeed question Ratcliff and his intuitive decisions that he believes are enough to turn the situation around Manchester United.