The Football Reporters: Should Man United sack Ruben Amorim?
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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| 0:32.6 | Ruben Amaram's position at Manchester United is once again under the microscope. |
| 0:42.9 | The club have insisted he will be given more time, but there are some who think it is already time for a change. |
| 0:48.8 | Joining me for this debate is ESPN's Rob Dawson and Mark Ogden. |
| 0:52.0 | They've written the piece on this very subject, which you can |
| 0:54.3 | read on the ESPN website, but we're going to debate it in person as well. Rob, I will come to you |
| 0:59.8 | first, because it's very, very early in the season, and yet these questions are already being raised. |
| 1:05.5 | So the question is why? Well, I mean, the question of whether he should stay or go is probably valid. |
| 1:13.0 | You know, everyone will have seen the stat of eight wins in 31 Premier League games. |
| 1:17.3 | He will admit himself that that's just not good enough for any manager probably and particularly for a United manager. |
| 1:25.1 | You know, we're not talking about a particularly small sample size. |
| 1:29.0 | He was appointed in November to replace Eric Sen Haag. |
| 1:32.2 | It's not as if he's come in in the summer and he's had four or five games and people |
| 1:36.2 | are already deciding that, you know, his position should be up for debate. |
| 1:41.1 | Lots of the stats are damning, you know, including that eight wins in 31 Premier League games. |
| 1:45.9 | It's also United's worst start to a Premier League campaign since 92, 93, I think. |
| 1:51.8 | So all of these things combined has led a lot of fans to start debating whether Reuben Amrim is the right man for this job. |
| 1:59.9 | And as I'm sure we'll discuss going forward in this debate, there are some who have already decided that he's not right and that United should be looking to change. Yeah, those eight wins in 31 is, it's not a good look. Mark, it's frankly, you can't say it another way. It's a terrible record. And three of those wins came against Southampton, Ips, which in Leicester, the bottom three from last season. One, of course, is against Burnley this season. 36 goals. Goal difference are minus 13? Are you willing to give him any quarter, any allowance for the fact that the end of last season clearly became about the Europa League, not the Premier League? No, not really. Like you said, you just rattled it off there, Sam, with the teams they'd beaten. They've shown no evidence for me of beating teams that Man United should be beaten, you know, teams at the top end of the table. They haven't gone close, really. So, eight wins in 31. I saw a table published only this week of the 17 teams |
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