{"id":101163,"date":"2026-01-05T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/amorim-out-of-manchester-united-sacking-after-clash-with-wilcox\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:23:09","slug":"amorim-out-of-manchester-united-sacking-after-clash-with-wilcox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/amorim-out-of-manchester-united-sacking-after-clash-with-wilcox\/","title":{"rendered":"Amorim Out of Manchester United: Sacking After Clash with Wilcox"},"content":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim was sacked as Manchester United manager after a tense meeting with football director Jason Wilcox, according to sources close to the club.The conversation, which addressed Amorim&#8217;s preferred tactical system (3-4-3) and the evolution of the team&#8217;s playing style, was not well received by the coach.Subsequently, Amorim gave a tense press conference and quickly left the club&#8217;s training facilities in Carrington.Furthermore, he canceled a scheduled interview citing &#8220;personal reasons&#8221;, being replaced by defender Lisandro Mart\u00ednez.Sources indicate that Wilcox intended the meeting to focus on feedback following the 1-1 draw against Wolves.<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0105%2Fr1596883_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Ruben Amorim discutiendo con Jason Wilcox\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Ruben Amorim discuti\u00f3 con Jason Wilcox d\u00edas antes de ser despedido del Manchester United.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Amorim&#8217;s reaction, described as &#8220;too emotional&#8221; by the club&#8217;s directors, suggested a breakdown in his relationship with Wilcox.This was followed by a problematic press conference after the 1-1 draw with Leeds, where the Portuguese coach demanded to be &#8220;the manager, not the coach&#8221; and asked Wilcox to &#8220;do his job&#8221;.The club insists that the decision to fire Amorim was not solely due to internal tensions, but rather to the lack of &#8220;signs of evolution or progress&#8221; on the field.Amorim was personally informed of his dismissal at Carrington on Monday morning by Wilcox and CEO, Omar Berrada.Darren Fletcher, coach of the under-18 team, will take over the management of United in their next match against Burnley.The club is drawing up a succession plan, with the possibility of appointing an interim coach until the end of the season before making a permanent appointment in the summer.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Amorim was sacked as Manchester United manager after a tense meeting with football director Jason Wilcox, according to sources close to the club.The conversation, which addressed Amorim&#8217;s preferred tactical system (3-4-3) and the evolution of the team&#8217;s playing style, was not well received by the coach.Subsequently, Amorim gave a tense press conference and quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8989,143,1088,3654],"class_list":{"0":"post-101163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-jason-wilcox","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-ruben-amorim","11":"tag-sacked"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}