He is apparently \u2018lonely\u2019<\/a>. Did he throw something against a wall? Did he Google the next plane back to Lisbon?<\/p>\nWell, let\u2019s hand over to Chief Manchester United Writer David McDonnell, who is presumably taking that mantle across all Reach publications after the defection of Samuel Luckhurst to The Sun.<\/p>\n
Under-pressure Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim held a team bonding day for players and their families \u2013 despite his increasingly precarious position.<\/p>\n
Did Ruben Amorim \u2018hold a team bonding day for players and their families\u2019? Or did Manchester United arrange \u2013 many weeks ago \u2013 a family day at Carrington to which players\u2019 and staff families were invited, with lunch and activities provided for around 100 guests? We\u2019re edging towards the latter.<\/p>\n
And McDonnell absolute agrees.<\/p>\n
The open day for players and their families, attended by Amorim and his family and held at United\u2019s Carrington training ground on Sunday, is understood to have been arranged before the start of the season to allow the squad\u2019s wives, partners and children to see first-hand the \u00a350million upgrade to the facilities at the complex.<\/p>\n
So absolutely not \u2018held\u2019 by Amorim but instead \u2018attended\u2019 by him because \u2013 and we are making assumptions here \u2013 Amorim is not personally responsible for the \u00a350million upgrade to the facilities at the complex. Though that might explain why he is still in a job.<\/p>\n
The fact the open day still went ahead, despite the crushing loss at Brentford, shows that, for Amorim at least, it remains business as usual, despite the pressure mounting on the United boss, who has won just nine of his 33 league games in charge, losing 17 of them.<\/p>\n
We cannot stress this enough: This was clearly not Amorim\u2019s decision to make. It was not his party. The fact that it went ahead did not \u2018speak volumes about his current Manchester United mindset\u2019. What it does is show that when large companies arrange social events months in advance, they generally go ahead.<\/p>\n
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C-c-c-c-called a U-turn<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, there\u2019s some absolute nonsense being written about Tyrell Malacia being reintegrated into the Manchester United first-team squad.<\/p>\n
We are told by the Mirror that it\u2019s a \u2018dramatic U-turn\u2019 and by the Express that it\u2019s a \u2018drastic U-turn\u2019.<\/p>\n
Which all rather ignores the fact that Malacia was literally included in Manchester United\u2019s 25-man Premier League squad and \u2013 as the Manchester Evening News report \u2013 it \u2018was always the plan to reintegrate Malacia into the first-team group\u2019.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, just sometimes, there are no U-turns and nothing speaks volumes.<\/p>\n
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Hammer home that narrative<\/p>\n
\u2018NEW MANAGER Nuno Espirito Santo has already impressed West Ham fans by finally deploying a highly-rated young star who is the son of a club assistant,\u2019 says\u00a0The Sun.<\/p>\n
\u2018Many fans expected the youngster to have a significant role with the first team this season, but he struggled to find minutes under Graham Potter.<\/p>\n
\u2018Hammers supporters didn\u2019t hold back in their praise for the midfielder, nor with their condemnation for Potter\u2019s decision not to use him.\u2019<\/p>\n
Pesky fact: Freddie Potts played 45 minutes for West Ham against Chelsea under Graham Potter; he played 31 minutes against Everton under Nuno Espirito Santo. Finally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has been \u2018speaking volumes\u2019 with his decision to go ahead with a party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,448,348,349,3710,35432,451,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-170472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-mediawatch","13":"tag-popular","14":"tag-ruben-amorim","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170472","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=170472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}