Jamie Carragher slams Man Utd boss Ruben Amorim after ‘worst ever’ remark
Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim made a scathing assessment of his squad after they were embarrassed by Brighton at Old Trafford on Saturday
Jamie Carragher has slammed Ruben Amorim for his “ridiculous” comments about Manchester United, following the Portuguese’s scathing review of his players after their crushing defeat to Brighton.
Amorim went as far as to label the current squad as the worst in the club’s history following the 3-1 defeat, sparking outrage among pundits, including the former Liverpool defender.
On Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football, Carragher expressed his disbelief: “I don’t know Man Utd’s history as well as Gary Neville but I must say it was one of the most bizarre and ridiculous things I’ve ever heard a manager say.”
He questioned the logic behind Amorim’s public criticism, saying, “Why you would make a comment like that… that’s the type of comment a pundit would make, someone in my position, and you’d have to defend that. I don’t know what he gains from that, what the benefit is.
“We all know it’s a poor Man Utd team. They’d lost another game at home to Brighton, they’d done that in the last couple of years anyway. We know it’s a tough season, we know it’s a poor team. He has just loosened it up.
“That will be a quote that follows him for the rest of the season. He said to the journalists there, ‘I’ll give you your headline’. Why you would like to do that as a manager, I’ll never know.”
United’s latest defeat has left them sitting 13th in the Premier League and just 10 points clear of the relegation zone. And Carragher believes Amorim’s comments could potentially cause things to get even worse at Old Trafford.
He added: “It doesn’t help you confidence-wise going forward. I’ve not got much sympathy for the players in the Man Utd dressing room, they’ve been a joke for a few years now.
“A few weeks ago, after they played Liverpool, where Lisandro Martinez was talking about the mentality that was different – I nearly couldn’t stop laughing when I saw that. The amount of times Man Utd have thrown the towel in with bad performances over the last four or five years.
“What I would say is how can the manager go into the dressing room between now and the end of the season and continually try to build them up and give them belief to beat the opposition, whoever they come up against, when he has said they’re one of the worst teams in Man Utd history? At no point can I see what he’ll gain from that.”
