United’s Cunning Coup: The Audacious Heist of Amorim
Spanish specialist Ruben Amorim (39) was considered as Pep Guardiola’s successor, but a tandem of former Manchester City executives persuaded him to accept an offer from city rivals United.
“Manchester Evening News” journalist Samuel Luckhurst writes that CEO Omar Berada and technical director Jason Wilcox during their stay in Lisbon convinced the young specialist to take over the faltering squad from “Old Trafford” and so “collapsed” City’s long-standing plan for an “afterlife”. Guardiola”.
Luckhurst says Amorim has long been identified as the first among possible solutions for the Manchester City manager’s job, which, we quote, will be vacant due to Guardiola’s departure next year. Berada and Wilcox had this information, so they prepared well and managed to convince Amor that the Manchester blue club will face a steep decline in the period to come and that the reason is not only the trial with r Premier League.
Their job was made much more difficult because Amorim’s first colleague at Sporting, sporting director Ugo Vijana, had largely reached an agreement with the owners of Manchester City to succeed long-term transfer “guru” Ćiki Begiristajn, who himself will leave England soon, at the Etihad.
The intention was that the Portuguese tandem would succeed the Spanish tandem, however, a tandem of United executives, who work in accordance with the recommendations of the club’s new co-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, interfered with everything. We remind you that this English billionaire, together with a group of investors, bought part of the shares from the American Glazer family this summer and takes care of sports matters, after which, to the surprise of many, he was given support for Eric Ten Hague.
Now, after Guardiola’s successor was “kidnapped”, some writers on the Island see the decision to keep Deg Haag as part of a “master plan” that bought time and peace for negotiations with Amorim.
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The time was used for Sporting’s trophy coach to “draw” Manchester City of the future, and the question is whether it will include Kevin De Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan, who will become free footballers in the summer, as well as groups of several players who will join in the last season of the contract: Ederson, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Bernardo Silva and others.
Coupled with the uncertainty brought about by the legal dispute with the league, United have somehow become a better choice for a manager than a club that has won four in a row, or six of the last seven English league titles (and one European in the middle).
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