The arrival of Ruben Amorim to Old Trafford looked like a breath of fresh air for the Red Devils, but, nothing is further from reality, the results are not accompanied. Since the Lisbon arrived on the bench has achieved 14 points in 14 games, with a slab of eight losses that have placed the United in the fifteenth place in the Premier League, 12 points of the descent.
A United that does not raise heads
It seems another episode of the constant crisis that the club lives since the departure of Alex Ferguson in 2013. But this time there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. The picture led by Rúben Amorim is close to the descent positions after falling into two consecutive duels, against Crystal Palace (0-2) and Tottenham (1-0). Rio Ferdinand, legend of the Red Devils, summarizes the moment that fans of the set 20 times champion of the Premier League: “Only the Wolves and the West Ham separate my club from the descent positions. Do you realize what Near we are?
You have to move 50 years ago to see the red devils losing 12 of 25 games. The last time they did was in the 1973-74 season with descent included. In addition, in that campaign the Red Devils descended from the worst of ways. They had the possibility of obtaining permanence until the last day, but the most unexpected executioner would end their hopes.
The saddest goal of his career
Denis Law, legend of the club and member of the ‘United Trinity’ with George Best and Bobby Charlton, signed for the city’s neighbor, Manchester City, in that same campaign. The bad fortune would give a final day with Derbi Mancuniano and the Manchester United playing the descent. As if it were a Hollywood script, Denis Law scored the victory goal Citizen in Old Trafford, condemning United to the descent. “I rarely felt more depressed in my life than that weekend. After 19 years of having given everything I had to score goals, in the end I put one that I had almost wanted not to put,” confessed a Denis Law that so Only six years before I was raising the European Cup with United.
Denis Law, United Legend, playing for Manchester City
Crisis also in the offices
Returning to the present, the crisis does not remain in the playing grounds. The three -time club winner of the Champions is going through one of the greatest economic crises in its history. The directive will fire a hundred workers and accumulate losses of 340 million euros because of their absence in Champions. In turn, an entire institution like Sir Alex Ferguson was removed from his position as team ambassador to save the costs of his salary. The war between the fans and the top shareholder, Jim Ratcliffe (along with the Glazer), seems unsustainable in the middle of a catastrophic season.