Carabao Cup exposes fatal cracks in Amorim project

Amorim just lost in the Carabao Cup.

For Ruben Amorim, this defeat was like another stab in an already shaky chair. But beyond the result, what remains is the feeling: that Man United are becoming an endless farce, where every fall is magnified into laughter.

The Tragedy of a Dream of Reconstruction

Amorim arrived at Old Trafford with a mission to redefine the club’s identity. Over the past decade, the Red Devils have been derided as aimless, unstructured, and blindly spending. Amorim was different: he brought a clear tactical framework, a consistent transfer plan, and a belief that the club could be rebuilt from the ground up.

But the paradox is that the very thing that United once lacked - identity and structure - is now being attacked. People say Amorim is too stubborn with the 3-4-3, too dogmatic, too blind to reality. And the defeat to Grimsby only added fuel to the fire of doubt.

The irony is that if you look closely, Amorim’s Man United are not all bad. In their opening two Premier League games, the team have been sharp at times, creating chances, but it’s just a lack of confidence and individual errors that have seen the results slip through their fingers.

But details are no longer valuable. In a media ecosystem hungry for content, Man United exist as mere entertainment.

Amorim faces a wave of criticism from fans.

A coach squatting on the touchline, holding a small magnetic board, wearing sneakers – nothing funny about it – can also become the subject of ridicule. Amorim becomes a “fanatic”, a “wasted project”, a “failed experiment”. It is easy to overlook the fact that he has had only 10 months and two transfer windows to fix years of mistakes.

The giant machine swallows all hope

The biggest tragedy of Man United is not Grimsby, not Amorim, but the rotten structure. The club has become a “content industry”: every defeat is a viral clip, every wrong decision is a satirical feast.

Fans, after a decade of disillusionment, have gradually lost faith. Old Trafford is no longer the “theatre of dreams”, but the “theatre of the absurd”.

In such a context, any attempt at reconstruction is like dragging a steamboat through the jungle – hopeless, absurd, yet haunting. Amorim is like the character Fitzcarraldo in the classic film: knowing full well that he is pursuing an impossible goal, but still determined to go all the way.

MU were humiliatingly eliminated from the Carabao Cup.

Amorim may soon be sacked, and United may plunge into an endless cycle of “rebuilding” with another manager. But if you look at it from another angle, he may be the last “real thing” left at Old Trafford: someone who still sees this as a football club, rather than a money-printing machine, an advertising channel or a subject of satire.

In a world where all hope is strangled by the vines of cynicism and the mire of ridicule, it is precisely this hopeless commitment that is pious. Amorim may fail, but that failure will also mark the contrast: a genuine football dream against a cold commercial machine.

The jungle will swallow, the river will win, and every light will be stifled. Yet Amorim continues to pull his ship. And perhaps it is this hopelessness that makes him the last remaining image of a Manchester United that can dream.

Source: https://znews.vn/carabao-cup-phoi-bay-vet-nut-chi-tu-cua-du-an-amorim-post1580798.html