{"id":30047,"date":"2026-05-26T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ruben-amorim-sacked-as-manchester-united-manager-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:45:03","slug":"ruben-amorim-sacked-as-manchester-united-manager-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ruben-amorim-sacked-as-manchester-united-manager-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim sacked as Manchester United manager | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EN8rN1saxW8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Ruben Amorim has been sacked as Manchester United manager.<\/p>\n<p>Amorim leaves his role after 14 months in charge with the club sixth in the Premier League table.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Manchester United say the decision has been made &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; and &#8220;it is the right time to make a change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Under-18s head coach and former player Darren Fletcher will take charge of Wednesday&#8217;s game with Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#ManchesterUnited #RubenAmorim #Football #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EN8rN1saxW8\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Amorim has been sacked as Manchester United manager. Amorim leaves his role after 14 months in charge with the club sixth in the Premier League table. In a statement, Manchester United say the decision has been made &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; and &#8220;it is the right time to make a change&#8221;. Under-18s head coach and former player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30049,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30047\/revisions\/30049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}