No matter how bad things get at Manchester United, you are never far away from an exhilarating high some rival supporters experience only a handful of times in their lifetime.
Ruben Amorim will always have Lyon. Erik ten Hag lifted two trophies. Even David Moyes still gets a chill when he hears Olympiacos’ results.
Michael Carrick has masterminded two in nine days, the last 14 months of horror already forgotten. The revolution televised for the world to see, one so refreshingly simple in a world of intricate tinkering and tactics boards, it has sent supporters into a dizzying dance of euphoria.
Amorim told us Bruno Fernandes and Kobbie Mainoo could not play in the same team together. Mainoo didn’t do enough running to warrant a place in the side. He said they had to suffer before anything could get better.
All Carrick has done to transform the fortunes of his resurgent side was to say no, that is not right.
Mainoo covered more kilometres against Manchester City in last weekend’s swashbuckling victory than any team-mate managed in this Premier League season. An uptick perhaps down to having such a point to prove.
Mainoo starts and Fernandes’ new freedom
To then match that mileage at the Emirates, against the best in the land, only emphasises just how wrong Amorim got it. As does the link-up play with Fernandes.
Two glorious footballers, given licence to do what they do best, aren’t going to stifle each other, as Amorim feared they would. It takes two to tango, and what a spectacle we have been treated to so far.
Mainoo’s assist for Matheus Cunha’s winner on Sunday won’t linger in the memory, given the sumptuous strike that followed. But you cannot teach composure like that, to nutmeg an onrushing opponent, a league leader on his home turf, in the tightest of spaces.
WOW! INCREDIBLE from Matheus Cunha! pic.twitter.com/MVRNaPCOcR
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) January 25, 2026What Mainoo has done against City and Arsenal, having not started a single Premier League game all season under Amorim, is not normal. To come into the side and produce these performances, under these circumstances, defies logic. Amorim’s especially.
Every player who started against both City and Arsenal was deployed in their strongest, most natural position. Nobody shoehorned into a role to satisfy the manager’s dogmatism.
Casemiro built his entire career sitting in a midfield three alongside two expert ball-players in Luka Modric and Toni Kroos. Mainoo isn’t there yet, but his synergy with Fernandes certainly has echoes of the trophy-laden Real Madrid duo. Manuel Ugarte doesn’t give you that.
Luke Shaw was an adept centre-back under Amorim, but he feels most at home at full-back. Harry Maguire has always been most at ease in a partnership rather than a triumvirate. Amad Diallo has so much ability he was a threatening wing-back. But as potent as he is further forward? Not in your life.
What is most frustrating for supporters of Amorim – the Portuguese spoke so well and seemingly gave his all that he still retains many – is that he always had the tools to finally be that Sir Alex Ferguson successor to get it right.
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Ineos has its flaws, but in terms of recruitment, it has excelled since walking through the Old Trafford doors. Proven Premier League strikers are driving lasting change. Young, hungry talents elsewhere, minus the ego and inflated pay packet, have settled in nicely.
Amorim has to take credit for Patrick Dorgu’s push up the pitch, but that is where his positive legacy starts and finishes. We all believed him when he said that, such was the monumental task at hand, it would take years to see any real transformation.
In less than two weeks, Carrick has shown that it does not take a genius to bring the good times back.
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