Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has said that Ruben Amorim made a mistake by saying that he wouldn’t change his system.
Amorim joined United earlier in the season and came in with a 3-4-3 system which he has stuck to ever since. However, his side have won just four Premier League games since he joined from Sporting CP in November.
They lost 1-0 to fellow strugglers Tottenham on Sunday afternoon, which left the Red Devils 15th in the Premier League table, 12 points above the relegation zone.
After the game, Gary Neville said on Sky Sports that Amorim made a mistake by saying that he wouldn’t change from his preferred 3-4-3 system.
He said: “I don’t think there’s anything on the pitch that I’ve seen so far, either in results or performances, that tell me that we’re watching a really good team. We’re not. It’s really poor team, this United team.
“But even if it’s a poor team, he [Amorim] has died in a ditch in respect of when he said, very early on, I’m not going to change my ideas. Now he can’t, and that’s, I suppose, an issue in some ways.
“I do think there is a system, which would have meant they’d [Man United] have felt more comfortable. But he can’t change that, because of what he said previously, he’s really sort of stuck his flag in the ground, and sort of that’s the way in which he’s going to go down.
“He had a very good team, by the way, at Sporting Lisbon, so he knows what good looks like he knows where he wants to take Manchester United, too. The problem is at this moment in time, it’s just not happening at all.”
Ruben Amorim one of the favourites to be sacked in the Premier League
After his side suffered their third Premier League defeat in their last four games, Amorim has moved further and further up the bookmakers’ favourites to next get sacked in the league.
According to Oddschecker, Amorim is the fifth favourite to get sacked next despite only being the United boss since November.
He is 16/1 to get sacked next, behind Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca (7/1), Southampton’s Ivan Juric (7/1), Leicester’s Ruud van Nistelrooy (2/1), and Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou (Evens).