Ruben Amorim sacked by Man Utd | Nev gives his reaction...
The Gary Neville Podcast
Sky Sports
4.3 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Amorim was dismissed after 14 months in charge following a meeting with Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox. Former Man Utd midfielder Darren Fletcher will take charge of the team for Wednesday's game at Burnley.
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| 0:00.0 | Amram gone inside 14 months before we get into the rights and wrongs of what has gone down. |
| 0:05.6 | What's your overriding feeling on today's breaking news? |
| 0:09.5 | Yeah, look, when a manager is sacked at any level and obviously I'm a part owner in a football club, |
| 0:15.5 | it was to poor reflection upon everybody. |
| 0:17.6 | It means it's not worked. |
| 0:18.6 | It means the decision making all the way through |
| 0:21.4 | has not been successful, means the manager hasn't won in a football matches and that ultimately |
| 0:26.1 | everybody loses. Particularly when you're sacking a manager partway through a season, |
| 0:30.0 | it's very difficult to get an adequate replacement in Manchester United. They've been here before, |
| 0:36.1 | and they're in a challenging position again. |
| 0:38.0 | But I am surprised that it's happened this morning. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm not surprised that it's happened. |
| 0:42.9 | I think that I didn't realize it would happen so quickly. |
| 0:45.6 | I think the last week or so, some of the press conferences that we've seen, |
| 0:50.0 | it usually only ends one way. |
| 0:51.5 | But I did think that they would get through another couple of weeks, |
| 0:54.8 | try and work out what to do, but obviously it's become that challenging internally that they decided to do it very quickly, |
| 1:01.4 | which was a shot this morning at 10 o'clock when I heard the news. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah, just on the timeline, I mean, the acceleration of this decision seems to stem from this meeting that we talk about on Friday between Jason Wilcox and |
| 1:12.3 | Amoryam. Now, we've been told that United's bosses felt that his response at that meeting was very |
| 1:17.0 | negative and emotional and then we saw the post-match comments at Leeds. Do you feel like his position |
| 1:22.6 | had simply become untenable? Look, if there was a meeting on Friday morning about the performance against wolves |
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