{"id":2768,"date":"2026-08-31T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:16:56","slug":"man-utd-told-ruben-amorim-would-have-been-perfect-fit-for-premier-league-rivals-as-problems-deepen-after-man-city-derby-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd told Ruben Amorim would have been perfect fit for Premier League rivals as problems deepen after Man City derby defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>In his column on <em>Sky Sports<\/em>, Merson wrote: &#8220;Ruben Amorim, the way he wants to play, is a worry. He won&#8217;t change. He&#8217;ll look at it and say &#8216;I&#8217;ve got where I am today by playing the way I play,&#8217; using three at the back and high wing-backs. He would have been a perfect fit for Chelsea. They&#8217;ve got world-class wing-backs in Reece James and Malo Gusto, they&#8217;ve got the best holding midfield player in the league in Moises Caicedo. It would fit the players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You look at Man United and this system does not suit the squad they&#8217;ve got at all. The two wing-backs are nowhere near it, nowhere near good enough. And they are a big part of this formation working. No legs in midfield. Everything is up against him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/man-utd-ruben-amorim-perfect-fit-for-premier-league-rivals-problems-deepen-derby-defeat\/blt171c66c84d431726\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his column on Sky Sports, Merson wrote: &#8220;Ruben Amorim, the way he wants to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}