There’s an old saying in football, the bigger the club, the heavier the past. For Manchester United, that history has become both a badge of honour and a burden. Every new era begins with hope, every manager arrives with conviction, and every season ends with the same weary question: what’s still going wrong?
When Ruben Amorim took charge last November, he was billed as the moderniser who could finally restore order after years of chaos, young, bold, and confident in his methods. Eleven months later, that conviction has started to look like rigidity.
New signings, still the slow show for Amorim in United. (Reuters Photo)
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A 2–0 win over Sunderland before the international break gave fans a glimpse of promise, lifting United to ninth in the table. But even a win could not mask the deeper truth.
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