This time, I did an experiment and asked a question on my social media about what Ruben Amorim should do about Ruud van Nistelrooy: keep the Dutchman or not in his coaching team at Manchester United?

It was with great surprise that I saw the answers.

A resounding 75% of voters agreed with the maintenance of the Club’s legend, now under the tutelage of Ruben Amorim, returning to number 2!

I didn’t perceive.

I was (almost) in shock.

Could it be that they weren’t seeing the same thing as me?

Definitely not!

For me, many of the Club’s interim coach’s attitudes left me with serious doubts about his conduct and ability to be a good teammate (essential when you are part of a technical Staff and not the Head Coach).

Let me highlight a few here.

Starting with the change in clothes.

If there is something that I have difficulty understanding, it is the radical change in the way of being and presenting oneself.

Why change from the normal tracksuit in which he presented himself until then with the one who had brought him to the Club (ie. ex-Head Coach Ten Hag) and now presented himself in a full suit (practically)?

Mainly, in this case, because from the first game in which he was taking the team, as an interim, he already knew that his role would always be temporary and that Ruben was on his way.

Secondly, his communication with the press, from the moment he took his decisions away from the already announced new Head Coach, as a way of stating “I’m in charge, I’m the boss” style, to when he expressed publicly his desire to be the Club’s Head Coach.

Finally, the way he managed to turn to him the results the team had during his tenure, in all the possibilities of interaction with the fans, in the goal celebrations, to the laps around the stadium clapping.

Very, very forced.

And inelegant.

To understand the abysmal difference in attitude, we have a new Coach who just now in his last game for Sporting CP in Braga, in his farewell and after a difficult week with historic results for his team, when asked about why to leave practically straight to the dressing room after brief applause to their fans saying that “when the team wins, the moment belongs to the players, they are the ones who deserve to enjoy that moment with the fans. When we lose, I will always be there at the front.”
It really is a VERY different way of being.

For the better.

In sum, Ruud was a complete disaster.

More than that, this way of being in Football shames me.

As a friend of mine said about this theme: Football won (with the decision of Ruud staying out of the new Technical Staff at Manchester United).

And I, sadly, agree with that statement.

For a different way of doing things!

Go Ruben!!

We are United!