Ruben Amorim

[lifetime fan]

3 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Girth > length

Thank fuck. 

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, Lee909 said:

 

This country has never really done formations well. The majority of the coaches hadn't moved out of 442 before the year 2000. All sung from from the playback of Charles Reep

You Reep what you sow.

[Scott_M]

Sporting v Benfica in the league tonight.

 

A Sporting win would put them 4 clear, with a game in hand, with 7 to play. 
 

From looking at the table, it looks like their game in hand is v Famalico, who I’ve never heard of until 15 seconds ago and are mid-table, so you’d assume Sporting will win that as well. 

[Jairzinho]

9 hours ago, lifetime fan said:

Thank fuck. 

 

"You said you at least had girth..."

 

*Proudly removes T-shirt.*

[Lee909]

can't see anything getting officially announced with them still needing to wrap up the title

 

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Is he tall. I feel the guy has to be tall.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I've just read he's 5 ft 8 so a short arse I hope he has a big personality.

[diamondjoe]

Do all these new managers shop in the same clothes shops? Identikit managers are popping up left right and centre. 

[razor]

1 hour ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Is he tall. I feel the guy has to be tall.

 

Honestly, I've been wondering this - the sheer size of Klopp is one of his assets.

 

In western cultures, like it or not, big people always have an advantage over smallies.

 

(I'm a smally and I'm telling myself this is the reason I've never got to the top.  For me, it's certainly more pertinent than my caustic personality, sallow social presence, poor dress dress and questionable personal hygiene.)

 

[YorkshireRed]

1 hour ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Is he tall. I feel the guy has to be tall.

He doesn’t even have girth. 

[navbasi]

8 hours ago, Lee909 said:

can't see anything getting officially announced with them still needing to wrap up the title

 

 

can't see anything getting officially announced with us still needing to wrap up the title

[bossy]

Follows a loose pattern of bringing in managers that disrupt a monopoly; Rafa from Valencia, Jurgen from Dortmund. 

[El Rojo]

Agree that this job shouldn’t be going to anyone shorter than six foot. 

[gkmacca]

The ever-cunning Bielsa sat on a bucket, thus confusing the size-ists. Ruben could stand on one of those fold-out steps that you can buy from B&M. Or wear some vintage glam rock red-sparkle platform boots. I wouldn't worry about his height. The beard can go, though. Jurgen went full-Barthesian in his gradual move from dyed hair and designer stubble to anti-vanity greying chin-bush. Ruben's beard is just too bland. Oh dear, there is so much about which to worry!

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, Lee909 said:

can't see anything getting officially announced with them still needing to wrap up the title

 

 

If DavockKop says it's happening then who am I to argue with such overwhelming evidence? It would be futile to argue with an obvious font of reliable information.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Twitter wankers. Obvious rumours then make out like you have concrete evedicence.

 

"Xabi hopes to manage real Madrid when Ancelottis contract runs out"

 

"Harry Maguire confirms hats don't fit"

[Carvalho Diablo]

Not a single one of the Twitter ITK nonces knew anything about Jurgen's departure, why should anyone believe that they know anything about his replacement?

 

[Trumo]

26 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Twitter wankers. Obvious rumours then make out like you have concrete evedicence.

 

"Xabi hopes to manage real Madrid when Ancelottis contract runs out"

 

"Harry Maguire confirms hats don't fit"

 

To be fair, there is concrete evidence for the latter.

[magicrat]

31 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Not a single one of the Twitter ITK nonces knew anything about Jurgen's departure, why should anyone believe that they know anything about his replacement?

 

They may just be looking in the right direction this time 

[TD_LFC]

Get the feeling he's on a hiding to nothing, it's tough enough that he has to follow (if it ends up being him) a hugely popular manager in Klopp but there also seems to be a slow drip of dis-information about him and his teams that has permeated the fan base and become 'fact' (despite it being easily disproved with a simple google search).

 

Since he was first linked we've had question's over his ability to speak English, that he's an overly defensive manager, that his teams don't press, that he has an aversion to youth players, his teams have an inability to defend set pieces.

 

Any success he's had is usually framed against the loss of talent/under performance of Porto/Benfica with very little acknowledgement for the amount of talent Sporting have also lost (at least two of which were wanted by our own fans) or the relative position he took them over compared to the two larger clubs and the ground he's had to make up.

 

Often these statements are devoid of any context/comparison and sometimes deliberately misleading and while the vast majority who regurgitate them aren't doing it through malice they have to be originating from somewhere.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

But he's definitely a short-arse, right?

[joe_fishfish]

He’s five ten, medium height if anything

[TD_LFC]

6 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

But he's definitely a short-arse, right?

 

Oh definitely, that's the only legitimate reason he should be fucked off and not appointed.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

3 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

He’s five ten, medium height if anything

 

Someone said he's 5' 8". Another profile lists him as 6 foot.

 

Starting to think I can't believe what I read on the internet.

[TheHowieLama]

 he's definitely a short-arse,

Klopp lokks like he wants to give the little fella a couple noogies here: