Manchester United’s season hinges on one game and that’s the Europa League final but Paul Scholes says the club’s big issue this season has come from Ruben Amorim.
Ruben Amorim arrived at Old Trafford during the middle of the season, assuming control of a team that was not originally his, characterized by tactical disarray and structural issues, alongside the temporary uplift provided by Ruud van Nistelrooy’s managerial stint.
Given these challenges, Amorim effectively prioritized his team’s efforts towards European competition, sacrificing league performance in the process.
Paul Scholes has criticized the Manchester United manager, rather than acknowledging his efforts, pointing out that Amorim ‘won’t acknowledge’ the club’s most significant problem this season.
Paul Scholes calls out Ruben Amorim
Scholes hasn’t been a huge fan of Amorim since the day he joined the team, despite the fact that he gets incredibly quiet when he talks to the manager.
His most recent criticism of Amorim stems from the fact that he prioritizes the Europa League, which leads to the team’s poor league performance.
United is expected to finish in their worst-ever Premier League position, and Scholes claims that Amorim’s mindset is to blame for this, even though he “won’t admit it.”
“I think it’s come from the manager even though he won’t admit it. He’s not playing teams to win games of football in the league. I think even fans are thinking let’s get these league games out of the way because the league has been a disaster.”
Ruben Amorim is doing the right thing
Although only five points behind the league, the team Amorim took over was in 13th place, and he initially tried to identify his strongest group.
United’s league losses at the time already had them on the outside looking in since they were playing in a system that was entirely foreign to them.
Amorim made the right choice to put all his eggs in the basket when the seeds of qualification were sown in Europe, though, since the UCL qualification was just as much of a prize as the triumph.
Although any reasonable manager would follow suit, this does not imply that the squad enters league games with the intention of losing.
Ask Brentford, who United’s weary team battled all the way to and nearly pulled off a draw after falling behind 4-1.
That doesn’t indicate that a team has given up on league play, and Amorim isn’t requesting that they skip games in order to be ready for Europe.
In actuality, he has most likely been guilty of putting too many senior players at risk in the league when the Manchester United supporters would be more than delighted if he started with a junior squad.
Scholes is largely off the mark here, but many club supporters are no longer surprised by that.
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