For all the co-owner’s promises of three-year spells, the head coach will not survive this season without real signs of a revival
T
he word from Manchester United insiders is that Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s headline-hogging declaration that three years is an apt timescale to judge Ruben Amorim is merely Sir Jim being Sir Jim, the self-made billionaire showing his anti-PR, maverick streak.
While the debate rages on TV, radio, social media, and in drinking parlours about the sagacity of his words, what Ratclifffe did not say or allude to intrigues as much.
Because, like an anti-Rafael Benítez, Ratcliffe chose not to discuss the “facts” when assessing Amorim’s beleaguered incumbency, as the head coach’s tenure approaches the first anniversary early next month. Instead, United’s largest minority owner reached for the easy punchbag of the media to opt out of facing the hard truth of the team under Amorim.
