Amorim raises doubts about Man Utd future after West Ham loss
Manchester United's Portuguese head coach Ruben Amorim and players applaud fans after the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and West Ham United at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on May 11, 2025. West Ham won the game 2-0. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)
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An "embarrassed" Ruben Amorim raised doubts about
his Manchester United future after another poor performance from his team in a
2-0 home loss to West Ham on Sunday.
Three days after United reached the Europa League final,
they were brought back down to earth by another lowly side in the Hammers, with
the London club recording their first top-flight win at Old Trafford since
2007.
Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen scored the visitors' goals as
United, once the undisputed kings of English football, suffered a 17th defeat
in 36 league games this season to sit 16th.
This latest lacklustre display angered Amorim, who has
already given his team several public dressing downs since replacing the sacked
Erik ten Hag as United manager in November.
"For me the biggest concern is that feeling that 'it's
OK', and 'we cannot change our position so much so it's OK'," Amorim said.
"That is the biggest problem in our club in this moment
because we are losing the feeling of we are a massive club and it's the end of
the world to lose a game at home."
The 40-year-old Portuguese coach, previously in charge of
Sporting Lisbon, added it was "the most dangerous feeling that you have in
a big club", with United having not won the Premier League title since
celebrated manager Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.
Amorim, asked how it felt to see his side so low in the
Premier League, replied: "How a manager of Manchester United supposed to
feel in that position –- embarrassed and it's hard to accept."
And he said a Europa League final with fellow English
strugglers Tottenham in Bilbao on May 21 could not distract from United's
domestic woes.
"Everybody is thinking about the final," said
Amorim. "The final is not an issue in this moment in our club. We have
bigger things to think (about) and we have to change a lot of things in the end
of the season."
Amorim, who has overseen just six league wins since
succeeding Ten Hag, said United "need to change a lot of things during the
summer" and questioned his own future if he can't oversee a significant
improvement.
"I don't want to talk about players," Amorim said.
"I'm talking about myself and the culture in the club and the culture in
the team.
"We need to change that and we need to be really strong
in the summer and to be brave because we will not have a next season like this.
If we start like this, or if the feeling is still here, we should give the
space to different persons."
"Very pleasing result, especially in the context of
what we've been through," said West Ham manager Graham Potter. "It's
been a tough couple of months because results have not been what we've wanted.
"Performances haven't been as bad, but you know what its
like -- if you don't get the results you have to suffer in the Premier League
and that's what we had to do."


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