😩 When will Rasmus Hojlund's next goal for Manchester United come?     See Less

Dalot has no vision of the field.     See Less

In my opinion, could have had a minute silence to pay respect for POPPY ATKINSON'S life after her tragic story was read, & then end the show after.
Didn't have the honour of k     See More family, but I'm sure they would have appreciated that gesture.
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The death of Poppy Atkinson is desperately sad and is hard to understand.     See Less

Are you serious with this headline
It’s normal for players to have a go at each other if there’s a ball on and it’s not played
It’s called passion
This fan channel has tu     See More the untied stand with these pathetic headlines    See Less

I never thought that when we bought Rasmus. That he would play every game. Crazy!     See Less

People losing their jobs and the players on or wanting 180 grand+ a week     See Less

TLDR (apologies for the essay, I just find it an interesting topic to discuss): sacking Ruben would be a terrible mistake and it will open the door for Ruben to City by way of Hugo Viana—m     See More than not leading to City continuing to dominate the lot for the next decade or two.

If we make the grave mistake of caving to Twitter fan pressure and we foolishly sack Ruben I’m willing to bet City will do everything they can to get him.

If Ruben is on the market again City will either sack Pep or they’ll encourage him to graciously step down at the end of the season (whichever season we’re in) with a generic “I need a break from football, I’m tired” public statement. City will then do everything they can to replace Pep with Ruben.

You might think I’m off my head but hear me out…

Well, by Ruben’s own admission in his “20 Questions with Ruben Amorim” interview with TNT Sports yesterday Hugo Viana is a very close friend of his. They worked miracles at Sporting. They took Sporting back to the top of Portuguese football after almost 20 years. Ruben left Sporting with a 71% win rate, Ruben left with Sporting sat at the top of the Champions League group stage table after beating City 4-1, and he left with Sporting sat at the top of Primeira Liga. It took time for them to get going at Sporting but over time, Ruben Amorim and Hugo Viana developed into the Portuguese equivalent of Sir Alex and David Gill in terms of their working relationship and partnership.

Whether we like it or not City are a well-run club with very smart people at executive level. I believe City very specifically headhunted Hugo Viana to replace Txiki Begiristain (alongside the publicly acknowledged mandate of a full overhaul being needed and Viana being a good candidate for that job). IMO City went after Viana with a view to getting Ruben later on down the line after Viana built everything around him in way that would almost immediately catapult Ruben to success. That’s what City did with Pep. They went and got Txiki a couple of years after Txiki left Barca, Txiki built the footballing structure around him with the right people and the people who would get the best out of Pep as a coach, and only after everything was in place and football operations were functioning smoothly as intended they went for Pep. The environment was set up for Pep specifically, and to facilitate Pep’s success.

I believe City are running that same playbook again, but this time for Ruben, given Ruben’s respected reputation as one of the best young coaches in the world after, 1) a 73% win rate with Braga B, 2) a 77% win rate with Braga, 3) a 71% win rate with Sporting, and 4) fully overhauling Sporting from top to bottom and guiding them to their first Primeira Liga title in almost 20 years in spite of a toxic environment at the club.

Per reports published on March 05, 2025, Hugo Viana’s mandate at City is exactly the same as Txiki’s mandate when City went in for him—rebuild a team with problems and rebuild the club’s football operations so a certain coach can thrive.

With a club that is really well run, smart, has a reasonable squad with decent players, and the resources to add to that squad every year while having the ability to move on players that are surplus to requirements without much difficulty, with a club without the infinite problems we have both on and off the pitch, and with a club where the job isn’t a poison chalice—whether we like it or not, with a club like City—Ruben is primed for success. He’s winning the lot for the next decade or two.

That’s why IMO City went after Hugo Viana to replace Txiki. Rebuild, and rebuild in a way that empowered Ruben to dedicate all his time and focus on what he’s good at—football—and not being forced to take questions about staff redundancies and business operations during pre-match pressers.

However Ruben himself put a spanner in the works and joined us. City just weren’t ready for Ruben at the time—Viana hasn’t got to work and still doesn’t join City until later this year, in June.

If we sack Ruben prematurely we’d be making an atrocious mistake reminiscent of Ed Woodward’s amateur hour blunders that got us into this mess to begin with. Ruben is the man who will take us back to the top. He has the right attitude. He has that grit, determination and steel all successful coaches have. He needs time and backing in both summer and winter windows. But sacking him now means City may well go after him. With Viana’s influence they will more likely than not appoint him as Head Coach, and with Ruben as Head Coach and Viana as Director of Football they will more likely than not continue dominating the Premier League and the Champions League for the foreseeable future.

I just wish our Executive Team had the foresight and intelligence to go all out for Hugo Viana as Director of Football before City tapped him up, along with Ruben Amorim as Head Coach.

End of story. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.    See Less

19 games without a goal is mad.     See Less

Hojlund gets no service. His shots to goal ratio is good and he had the best conversion rate in the Europa group stages. Him and Dalot had a big fall out last season over Dalot not passing h     See More l, they didn't speak to eachother for weeks according to Andy Mitten.    See Less