Ruben Amorim<\/a> never once called him out the same way he did other ex-players-turned-pundits, and his interviews with the likes of Leny Yoro and Senne Lammens mean he comes from a position of authority.<\/p>\n Who do YOU want as the next Man Utd manager? <\/p>\n What traits are you looking for?<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Therefore, it is really interesting to see his latest take on the Ruben Amorim sacking<\/a>, which he claims, with the benefit of hindsight, he saw coming earlier. <\/p>\n Ferdinand went to Carrington<\/a> to speak to Bruno Fernandes<\/a> around mid-December, which is when Amorim was in a fairly jovial mood publicly. <\/p>\n His side had beaten Wolves 4-1 away from home<\/a>, and a thrilling 4-4 draw at home against Bournemouth<\/a> provided hope for a better future.<\/p>\n However, if Ferdinand is to be believed, he saw the \u201cstart of the end\u201d for Amorim when he spoke to him while he was at Carrington to interview Fernandes.<\/p>\n Despite his good mood in the media, Ferdinand saw Amorim as a \u201cdistant\u201d and \u201cdepressed\u201d man when he spoke to him privately that day. <\/p>\n Speaking on his YouTube channel<\/a>, he said: \u201cI have seen him on tour, and he\u2019s normally so enlightened, wide-eyed, insightful, and energetic. I actually met the manager and spent about five-ten minutes talking as I always do. <\/p>\n \u201cThis time [when Ferdinand went and interviewed Bruno], he looked distant. He looked a bit depressed and a bit down. Now I can only say this with hindsight, but that must have been the start of the end for Ruben Amorim. There was a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n Amorim became overwhelmed with the job by the end<\/p>\n As more and more details emerge around his sacking, it\u2019s becoming quite clear that the media-facing version of Amorim and the actual person were two very different people.<\/p>\n Would you take Ole Gunnar Solskjaer back as Man Utd manager? <\/p>\n Solskjaer is reportedly open to returning to the Old Trafford hotseat<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n In public, he struck an honest and confident tone, always charming the room with his charisma, but he was becoming overwhelmed by the pressure in private.<\/p>\n Therefore, the suggestions from the board to be more tactically flexible, if they arrived, could have just been the final straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. <\/p>\n It can\u2019t go unnoticed that Amorim is one of the Man Utd managers who was backed faithfully by Ineos<\/a>, so his outburst at the one time he was asked to be flexible<\/a> is hard to accept. <\/p>\n Ultimately, the United job is a well-established crown of thorns at this point, so Amorim should recover from it, but it is increasingly looking like a poor decision to hire him in the first place. <\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best United content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The buildup and aftermath of Leeds is widely viewed as the end for Ruben Amorim, but Rio Ferdinand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[13138,21907,7794,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-390288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bruno-fernandes","9":"tag-rio-ferdinand","10":"tag-ruben-amorim","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Next](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/UIF-94-819x1024.png\")
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