Manchester United ended their transfer window with five new arrivals and many departures, but the success or failure will largely depend on another Ineos call entirely.
A revamped front line with Benjamin Sesko, Matheus Cunha, and Bryan Mbeumo has shown signs of life but hasn’t truly taken off yet.
Senne Lammens will make his debut after the international break, while Diego Leon is a project player with vast potential.
All those signings filled a crucial hole in the first-team squad, and, combined with departures, make the squad better than what it was. However, none of it will count for anything if Ineos’ biggest call doesn’t pan out.
Ineos’ Ruben Amorim call will need to pan out
Omar Berrada has consistently stressed that the players are bought and sold with a long-term club vision in mind, and not for a particular manager.
However, it is impossible to look away from the fact that Ineos have put all their eggs in the Ruben Amorim basket, and the transfer business hints at the same.
Pretty much every winger at United has been jettisoned, which is a strong statement of confidence in Ruben Amorim’s ability to lead the team.
For all the talk around their new signing, Ineos need that call to work more than anything else.
The team’s results this season haven’t been good, but the underlying stats show that the performances have clearly deserved more.
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In the long run, the results always end up matching the performance, and for Ineos, it needs to happen quickly, because the conductor of the orchestra needs to be good for the people in it to play well.
Amorim has been backed
There is a clear argument that United lack a central midfielder, but there is not a single coach in world football who gets everything he wants, all the time.
If that happened, then the role of the manager becomes irrelevant. Amorim has been broadly backed by Ineos.
He has received a revamped front line, a new goalkeeper, and a thriving academy setup which can be used to plug first-team holes as and when necessary.
Working around that hole in defensive midfield by hiding his players’ weaknesses and exacerbating their strengths is the role of a good manager.
The cultural reset has largely been achieved, and Amorim deserves credit for that. But after a full pre-season and a warchest of £225m well-spent, results will be needed soon.
Ultimately, despite signing five players and jettisoning plenty more, United’s success hinges on the call Ineos made by hiring Amorim last November.
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