{"id":344856,"date":"2025-12-31T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344856\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:30:07","slug":"amorim-sack-man-utd-begin-work-on-plans-to-replace-portuguese-boss-with-pl-boss-leading-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/344856\/","title":{"rendered":"Amorim sack? Man Utd &#8216;begin work on plans&#8217; to replace Portuguese boss with PL boss &#8216;leading the race&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man Utd are now working on plans to replace Ruben Amorim after their 1-1 draw against Wolves on Tuesday, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils have been struggling for consistency this season despite currently sitting sixth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> have won just eight of their 19 Premier League matches and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-amorim-asking-trouble-latest-man-utd-disaster-exposes-false-pl-position-baffling-transfer-claim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they were held to a draw against bottom side Wolves<\/a>, who have now taken just three points all season.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim\u2019s side have won just three of their last ten matches and were perhaps fortunate not to lose to Wolves, who had the better expected goals despite only scoring 11 all season.<\/p>\n<p>The Man Utd boss does have some excuses with captain Bruno Fernandes injured, while Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo and\u00a0Noussair Mazraoui are all away on Africa Cup of Nations duty.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gary Neville highlighted his confusing line-up against Wolves and the Man Utd legend also criticised all of Amorim\u2019s \u201cbizarre\u201d subsitutions against the Premier League\u2019s bottom side.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/premier-league-sack-race-arteta-amorim-nuno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham and Nuno in familiar Sack Race territory as Amorim turns another corner down a blind alley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/12\/31\/sources-manager-frontrunner-man-united-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">And now Caught Offside claim that<\/a> Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner is \u2018leading the race to replace\u2019 Amorim at Old Trafford as INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe\u2019s patience is wearing thin.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that Man Utd\u2019s \u2018continued struggles, lack of cutting edge in the final third, and growing distance from the Champions League places have shaken that patience.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The report adds: \u2018Sources close to the agents industry have informed\u00a0Caught Offside\u00a0that the Red Devils have begun working on plans to possibly replace Amorim at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018While the club publicly maintains that Amorim remains their man, sources suggest that contingency plans are quietly being explored behind the scenes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-romano-fresh-money-coming-hojlund-sancho-rashford-greenwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romano reveals \u2018fresh money is coming\u2019 to Man Utd as four transfers are highlighted<\/a><br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-neville-slams-bizarre-amorim-wolves-hopes-injured-zirkzee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd: Neville slams \u2018bizarre\u2019 Amorim decisions vs Wolves and \u2018hopes\u2019 one player is injured<\/a><br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-accelerate-interest-diomande-leipzig-semenyo-snub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When Man Utd will \u2018accelerate their interest\u2019 in Bundesliga star after Semenyo snub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glasner is seen as a \u2018safe pair of hands\u2019 to replace Amorim with Crystal Palace performing a lot better than Man Utd in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>On the January transfer window, the Man Utd board are \u2018understood to be cautious, reluctant to commit significant funds without clearer signs of progress on the pitch\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the lack of fluidity in his side was down to missing players, Amorim replied in a post-match press conference: \u201cThat is normal, but we didn\u2019t use that excuse against Newcastle. We are not going to use [it] today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, of course, if you see the game, I understand why we played the way we played today, the lack of fluidity, lack of one against one. We knew that would be a completely different game compared to Newcastle because [against] Newcastle, we have more space to play. We didn\u2019t have to work the play so much and today, we have difficulties in that aspect and that is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Utd are now working on plans to replace Ruben Amorim after their 1-1 draw against Wolves on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1649,218,348,349,50,27997,221,451,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-344856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-crystal-palace","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-oliver-glasner","tag-premier-league","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344856","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=344856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}