Gary Neville insists the speed of Ruben Amorim\u2019s departure from Manchester United came as a \u201cshock\u201d after the Portuguese was sacked on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Amorim leaves with United positioned sixth in the Premier League, Sunday\u2019s draw at Leeds coming five days after a dismal 1-1 home stalemate against basement club Wolves.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old has the lowest win percentage \u2013 31.9% \u2013 of the seven managers who have taken charge at Old Trafford since Alex Ferguson stepped down in 2013.<\/p>\n
Former United defender Neville told Sky Sports News: \u201cWhen a manager is sacked, it\u2019s a poor reflection on everybody. It means it\u2019s not worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately everyone loses, particularly when you are sacking a manager partway through the season. It\u2019s very difficult to get an adequate replacement in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am surprised it\u2019s happened this morning, I\u2019m not surprised it\u2019s happened. I didn\u2019t realise it would happen so quickly. I did think they\u2019d get through another couple of weeks and try and work out what to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut obviously it\u2019s become that challenging internally that they decided to do it very quickly, which was a shock this morning when I heard the news at 10 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at some of the performances in the last month, they\u2019ve really been shocking. However, there have been some bright spots along the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Wolves game seems to me to be the killer game. It was a bad one, that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former United centre-back Rio Ferdinand admits that while United\u2019s record under Amorim has been disappointing, he did not expect him to leave so soon.<\/p>\n
The 47-year-old told his Rio Ferdinand Presents YouTube channel: \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t have been on my first three or four or five people that I would have put as managers to get the sack right now in the league, so I am surprised.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when you look at his record in black and white, I\u2019m not surprised, which is weird, and it sounds weird when I say that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Amorim\u2019s explosive comments in his press conference after Sunday\u2019s 1-1 draw at Leeds raised doubts over his own future by hinting at disharmony behind the scenes at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
He insisted he was the manager rather than head coach and urged United\u2019s scouting department and sporting director to \u201cdo their job\u201d.<\/p>\n
Former United midfielder Paul Scholes feels Amorim \u201ctalked himself into it\u201d by questioning the club\u2019s hierarchy.<\/p>\n
Scholes believes United should make an approach for England boss Thomas Tuchel after the World Cup to take up the Old Trafford hotseat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Tuchel is one of the very best out there,\u201d Scholes said on The Good, The Bad and The Football podcast with former United team-mate Nicky Butt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would be my number one target \u2013 and his contract with England is only until the summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he can be a bit temperamental and he could be quite difficult to handle, but he has done it at big clubs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former England striker Gary Lineker said Amorim was the wrong man to manage a club that he described as a \u201cbasket case\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was almost as though he provoked it,\u201d Lineker told the Rest Is Football.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t seem to be the right fit and he was a bit stubborn about the way he wanted to play. The players didn\u2019t suit the way he plays and the club should have recognised that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI suspect they haven\u2019t supported him in the sense of bringing in the players he would have wanted in certain positions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, it\u2019s been bit of a basket case of a football club over the last few years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
United defender Harry Maguire wished Amorim well on Instagram, posting a photo of the two of them clasping hands accompanied by the message: \u201cThank you for everything boss. I wish you all the best in the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maguire\u2019s team-mate Bruno Fernandes also used social media to say farewell to the Portuguese. \u201cThank you, Mister! I wish you and your technical staff all the best,\u201d he wrote on Instagram stories. Defender Matthijs de Ligt also said goodbye on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Neville insists the speed of Ruben Amorim\u2019s departure from Manchester United came as a \u201cshock\u201d after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,20,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-269457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115845763203253231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}