Former Manchester United skipper Roy Keane questions how much longer the club should tolerate their poor results under manager Ruben Amorim following their 3-0 derby defeat to Manchester City.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese arrived as Erik ten Hag\u2019s replacement last season but is yet to oversee an improvement in the club\u2019s fortunes, despite having had a full summer and a busy transfer window to try and turn things around.<\/p>\n
United have taken just four points from their opening four games of the campaign, leading Keane to wonder whether we should still be making excuses for Amorim.<\/p>\n
Keane said on Sky Sports following that derby defeat:\u00a0\u201cThis United team, they lack that real quality. They struggle defensively, the midfield\u2026you\u2019re on about United breaking that press, but when teams get United, they look all over the place.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they\u2019re just an average team, an average Premier League team, the stats will tell you that. I\u2019m going back to to last season as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo again we\u2019re sitting here and United\u2019s record going against the top six teams or whatever is really, really poor. They can\u2019t seem to compete. They\u2019ll have maybe a good 45 minutes or a good hour, they kind of done it quite well against Arsenal, but they lost the game at home to Arsenal.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:\u00a0Erling Haaland and Phil Foden show signs of ending Manchester City identity crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUltimately, you are playing for Man United to win football matches, and when they say \u2018we\u2019re coming up against quality teams\u2019\u2026yeah, but that\u2019s part of the challenge. When you sign that contract, you\u2019re going, it\u2019s no good just beat the lesser teams, you\u2019re playing for Man United to compete against other good teams \u2013 and United can\u2019t do that, whether they\u2019re not good enough, there\u2019s obviously issues.<\/p>\n \u201cYou talk about the system, but the manager\u2019s come in, he\u2019s sticking to his guns, he\u2019s not budging, but the results, and I look at the points per game and goals for, goals against, it does concern me. It\u2019s not good reading.<\/p>\n \u201cAs soon as the game starts, you\u2019re looking going\u2026you\u2019re worried. And when you get that feeling when they\u2019re playing any decent team.<\/p>\n \u201cWe said \u2018they\u2019ve scored four goals [this season] and you\u2019d think United a bit better going forward now\u2019\u2026two of them were penalties, so they\u2019re not exactly a free-scoring team. It\u2019s not like they\u2019ve gone \u2018we might score two or three, and we might give up a few\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s almost the same problem as last year. We were told \u2018the new manager needs a pre-season, he needs his own players\u2019. They\u2019ve spent over \u00a3200m.<\/p>\n MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365<\/strong> \u201cSo we keep making excuses, but at some stage you go \u2018when are we going to see the signs?\u2019 Now people say you need to give managers time\u2026of course, but we saw Slot going into Liverpool last year, and Liverpool might have been a better team than United at that stage, but he ends up winning the league. You look at other managers, you can see Thomas Frank going into Spurs, you go, \u2018are we going to see signs of Spurs improving?\u2019 Yeah[, we are].<\/p>\n \u201cSo how long do you keep waiting when this team are probably getting a point per game?<\/p>\n \u201cMy worry is with the players now, maybe the players haven\u2019t got that much faith in it. So as much as the manager\u2019s going \u2018this is where we\u2019re going lads\u2019, and at the start you\u2019re probably going \u2018new manager, new ideas, something different\u2019\u2026but as the results don\u2019t come and you keep getting beaten and you\u2019re struggling against the better teams \u2026 it\u2019s like they\u2019re going around in circles.<\/p>\n \u201cIf some of the players are now starting to doubt that \u2013 and I\u2019m not saying they are, but you see the goals they\u2019ve given away \u2013 and you\u2019re going \u2018are some of the players fully on board with this manager?\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope it can change, but we gave him the benefit of the doubt when he first came in. 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