{"id":145958,"date":"2025-09-18T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145958\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:43:09","slug":"man-utd-told-to-sack-amorim-for-former-manager-or-theyll-be-playing-rotherham-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145958\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd told to sack Amorim for former manager or &#8216;they&#8217;ll be playing Rotherham&#8217; next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd boss Ruben Amorim should be sacked and replaced by former Red Devils head coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, according to Jamie O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils lost the Manchester Derby 3-0 on Sunday as they dropped down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14th in the Premier League table<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> picking up just four points from their opening four matches and scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<p>It is similar form to that which saw them finish 15th in the Premier League last term under Amorim and miss out on European qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread reports indicate that Amorim is not currently under heaps of pressure from the board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-amorim-sacked-one-condition-mainoo-team-mates-perplexed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but that if he looks likely to fail to qualify for Europe then the Man Utd hierarchy are ready to act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville made a prediction after the Manchester Derby defeat that Amorim will only come under pressure if they are in a similar position going into October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-neville-makes-amorim-sack-prediction-man-city-film\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neville said on\u00a0Sky Sports<\/a>: \u201cI think there will be some pressure applied to the manager and his rigidity of sticking with the system.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/next-man-utd-manager-candidates-ranked-if-amorim-sacked-southgate-xavi-pochettino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next Man Utd manager: Ranking Amorim\u2019s replacements puts Southgate second<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCity have beaten them well and comfortably. United had some good moments in the game \u2013 the first 15 minutes and the first five minutes of the second half. City, in big moments, have had better players. Foden, Doku, Haaland have stood out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been times when I have seen United lose this type of match when I feel angry and frustrated. I just feel nothing, which is even worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a nothing of a performance. United have just been beaten. With\u00a0Chelsea\u00a0next week, another defeat and big questions would start to be asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cMan Utd\u00a0are 14th, we\u2019re only four games in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t be getting into October where Man Utd are 14th or 15th in the league otherwise the manager will be in trouble. They have to start winning quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext week if they lose [against\u00a0Chelsea], they would go to 15th and 16th. It\u2019s five games in and before you know it you\u2019re in October and they\u2019re in the bottom half of the table. And that\u2019s where they can\u2019t be, having spent \u00a3200million and giving him a pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s got to be a turnaround pretty quickly, and the manager\u2019s idea has got to land very quickly with the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/biggest-ever-pay-offs-for-sacked-managers-mourinho-chelsea-manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amorim sack pay-off \u2018eye-watering\u2019 for Man Utd but Chelsea have paid six axed managers more<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-top-scorers-games-premier-league-big-six-rooney-rashford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United top scorers against Big Six: Fernandes draws level in joint-third<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-face-battle-barcelona-atletico-madrid-vlahovic-cant-stop-ball-replace-zirkzee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd face three-way battle to sign striker \u2018who can\u2019t stop a ball\u2019 to replace Zirkzee with cost revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Solskjaer left Besiktas at the end of August, former Tottenham midfielder O\u2019Hara insisted that Man Utd should bring their ex-player and coach back to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara told Sky Sports News: \u201cOle Gunnar Solskjaer ain\u2019t the worst shout in the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can come in, he can be a stopgap manager, interim manager, get players back onside.\u201d O\u2019Hara elaborated: \u201cI believe that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, if you get him back in, go back to the formation that they were playing before, get the players back onside, give them a bit of freedom, and I think they can maybe just calm everything down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And following another Man Utd defeat, O\u2019Hara has doubled down on his theory that Amorim should be sacked for former Red Devils boss Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara told talkSPORT: \u201cI can\u2019t believe Ruben Amorim is still in charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen are they going to let it go? When are they going to just\u2026 do what Sheffield United have done, just swallow their pride [and say] \u2018we got this wrong?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSheffield United\u00a0have recently\u00a0made a managerial U-turn, with\u00a0Chris Wilder\u00a0stepping in to replace Ruben Selles, just three months after the latter\u2019s mutual agreement to depart from the\u00a0Championship\u00a0club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara concluded: \u201cGet Ole back in. They can\u2019t carry on doing this. They\u2019ll go down. They\u2019ll be playing Rotherham [United] next season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-furious-leaks-totally-destructive-unhappy-fernandes-opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd \u2018furious\u2019 at latest \u2018totally destructive\u2019 leak as \u2018unhappy\u2019 Fernandes opinion is revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd boss Ruben Amorim should be sacked and replaced by former Red Devils head coach Ole Gunnar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,348,67259,349,50,221,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-145958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-jamie-o","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}