{"id":147699,"date":"2025-09-19T16:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147699\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:28:07","slug":"ineos-told-ruben-amorim-is-trying-to-get-sacked-like-one-former-tottenham-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147699\/","title":{"rendered":"INEOS told Ruben Amorim is &#8216;trying to get sacked&#8217; like one former Tottenham boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd boss Ruben Amorim is giving the same energy as former Tottenham boss Juande Ramos when \u201che was trying to get sacked\u201d, according to ex-Spurs star David Bentley.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils have made a disappointing start to the new Premier League season with Amorim\u2019s side taking just four points from their opening four matches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> finished last season in 15th place and without European qualification, while Amorim\u2019s team are currently 14th and heading for a similar kind of season unless they turn it around.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim recently publicly refused to change his philosophy and formation after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-city-man-utd-16-conclusions-haaland-amorim-foden-mbeumo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd lost 3-0 to arch-rivals Man City in the Manchester Derby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some rumours that the Red Devils could consider a change if he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/amorim-sack-man-utd-prime-replacement-three-reasons-shock-decision-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doesn\u2019t perform over the next three fixtures<\/a> against Chelsea, Brentford and Sunderland, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-incredible-ruben-amorim-sack-stance-lost-puppy-burnley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other reports claim he retains the full support of the Man Utd board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now former Tottenham and Blackburn Rovers star Bentley insists he is getting the same feeling from Amorim as he had when former Spurs boss Ramos was on the way to being sacked.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ruben-amorim-sack-man-utd-ratcliffe-talks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd: Ratcliffe \u2018flies in\u2019 for Amorim talks with poor form \u2018on the agenda\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/3568725\/ruben-amorim-man-united-tottenham-david-bentley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bentley told talkSPORT<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI get the (same) sense from Ruben Amorim at Man United that I got from Juande Ramos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know when you can see that positivity and energy? You like anything. It\u2019s like your missus in the morning. You\u2019re like, \u2018yeah, positive day today, can\u2019t wait to go to bed tonight.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then you get that positive energy that\u2019s within the football club and the manager projects that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen slowly, you see the wheels turn. Then he\u2019s turning up as if he can\u2019t be bothered.<\/p>\n<p>MORE ON MAN UTD ON F365<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-legend-schmeichel-never-heard-lammens-ineos-told-shouldve-signed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd legend Schmeichel had \u2018never heard of\u2019 Lammens as INEOS told who they \u2018should\u2019ve signed\u2019<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-conte-questions-mctominay-transfer-napoli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conte questions Man Utd over \u00a325.4m transfer: \u2018I didn\u2019t believe that it could happen\u2019<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-preview-arsenal-manchester-city-liverpool-watkins-amorim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Weekend: Arsenal v Man City, Liverpool, Ollie Watkins, Ruben Amorim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started making us train in the evenings and he started doing random things. It was like he was trying to get sacked. You felt it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter being so excited, that was a big sort of negative for me when I look back and reflect on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bentley added:\u00a0\u201cIt was a difficult start to life at Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in the pre-season, we played Roma at home. I scored a couple of goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we played Celtic away in Amsterdam. I scored there. But as a team, and me individually, we were flying into the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it was the summer that (Robbie) Keano left, (Dimitar) Berbatov went. And you just had the drama, we didn\u2019t replace him quickly enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the Tottenham players\u2019 reaction to those transfers, Bentley continued: \u201c(Daniel) Levy was dragging the deal out, how he does. So it caused a little bit (of sulking).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-shearer-fears-amorim-die-sword-sacked-this-weekend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd: Shearer fears Amorim is \u2018going to die on his sword\u2019 and could be sacked this weekend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd boss Ruben Amorim is giving the same energy as former Tottenham boss Juande Ramos when \u201che&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26274,59,348,349,50,221,451,101,919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-david-bentley","tag-gb","tag-home-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147699","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=147699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}