One year of Amorim: The good, the bad and "the worst Man United team in history"
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Ruben Amorim’s first year at Manchester United has been box office.
From the lows of the Europa League final defeat to the highs of that historic win at Anfield.
So how do we assess his time at Old Trafford - and what next for the project?
Host: Ayo Akinwolere
With: Mark Critchley, Oli Kay and Charlotte Harpur
Executive Producer: Abi Paterson
Producers: Mike Stavrou and Nick Thomson
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur Akimilari. |
| 0:09.0 | Ruben Amram's first year at Manchester United has been box office |
| 0:12.6 | from the lows of the Europa League final defeat to the highs of that historic winner Anfield. |
| 0:18.7 | So how do we assess his time at Old Trafford? |
| 0:21.4 | And what next for the project? |
| 0:24.8 | All right, here with us today, we've got Mark Critchley. |
| 0:27.2 | We've also got Olly Kay as well. |
| 0:29.7 | So look, one year ago today, November the 11th, Amarim officially started work as Manchester |
| 0:35.1 | United boss. |
| 0:36.5 | Critch, take us back to that day. Tell us how United |
| 0:39.2 | fans were feeling, considering he was replacing Eric Ten Hag at the time. I think there was |
| 0:44.3 | sort of two strands of opinion, I would say, at the time, and two strands of sentiment and feeling |
| 0:50.3 | around it. I think United fans, generally speaking, they're not very quick to turn on |
| 0:55.9 | managers, and indeed |
| 0:58.0 | with Ten Haag right until the end, I remember |
| 0:59.8 | doing his final home game against |
| 1:01.8 | Brentford that they won a week before |
| 1:03.8 | they lost at West Ham and he was eventually |
| 1:05.6 | dismissed. There was no sense that the fans |
| 1:08.0 | were sort of against the manager |
| 1:09.8 | or wanted him out, |
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