Ruben Amorim’s Man Utd ‘cannot entice huge names’, based on Prem cult hero
Premier League icon Joe Cole has admitted Manchester United have become a bottom half club and they must start signing players accordingly
Joe Cole insists Manchester United have become a bottom half club incapable of signing big name players anymore.
United head into 2025 languishing in 14th place in the table. New boss Ruben Amorim face a huge challenge when it comes to making United a major footballing force again.
Amorim will need several transfer windows in order to rebuild his team. But Cole has told Amorim that United’s stock has fallen so low he can forget about luring world class talent to Old Trafford.
Cole told Paddy Power : “I think that Manchester United will be in the bottom half for the majority of the season, but there are too many teams that are too far off it for United to get really sucked into a relegation battle.
“When Rúben Amorim came in and was proclaimed to be the saviour, it was the equivalent of buying a house and not getting the surveying done properly.
“Then walking into the house to find structural damage, and things falling apart. Amorim has walked into it, and he doesn’t realise how much surgery needs to be done on the club in every aspect.
“Manchester United fans have to be mature and accept what’s going on, and build slowly. Everything about the club is off at the moment. They won’t get sucked into a relegation battle, but they’re a bottom-half team.”
“If I was advising Manchester United, I’d tell them to forget about signing the best names in world football, and the best young players. They need to figure out and sign players who can get them from twelfth to eighth, and then from eighth to fourth.
“They should have spending habits similar to how Spurs have been over the past 20 years, and see what members of the squad are going to be comfortable competing with the likes of Brighton, Newcastle and Aston Villa.
“They’re not going to buy players that will compete with the Manchester City and Liverpool players. They’re in a different market. People always call into radio talk shows to say Manchester United should sign this player or that player.
“But they’re not going to go to Manchester United now, unless their career is on the way down, and they see it as an opportunity, or they are very young – in which case it’s a huge gamble.”
To see the full Cole interview, go to: https://www.paddypower.com/football/english-permier-league
