Rio Ferdinand believes that no less than 50 percent of the current team of Manchester United could be on the chopping block under Ruben Amorim.
The miserable league campaign of the Red Devils went on Sunday, with a 2-0 home defeat by West Ham who sends them in the rankings on the 16th.
Under the Portuguese, United won only six of their 25 league matches, with their last against the relegated Leicester City on March 16. In fact, the last side was defeated by the Red Devils who will not play in the championship next season in the championship next season in January.
The defeat of Sunday – a record – similar loss of the ninth league at Old Trafford – has led to widespread criticism, even from many who had sympathetic to the priority of the European League club, which could lead to the qualification of the Champions League.
Former Red Devils -defender Ferdinand thinks that Amorim would like to cut about half the current schedule and believes that he needs at least two transfer windows to build a team that is able to perform his vision.
“I think he looks around the dressing room and thinks:” If I could wave a magic wand, at least 50 percent of this team would not be here in the next five years, “he said on Rio Presents. 'Because they are not good enough and they are not right for the way he wants to play.
“I look at him and think that, at least, he needs two good windows to remove from those he does not need, but also to catch up with players he really needs.”
United Welcome Aston Villa to Old Trafford on Sunday before they end their season against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. The defeat by the hammers now increases the serious opportunity that the team has not reached 40 points and just outside the relegation places in 17th place.
Nevertheless, the Europa League offers the club the chance to save this shameful season. United is opposed to Tottenham, itself in the middle of a sad domestic term, in the final in Bilboa on 21 May.
The qualification for the Champions League is expected to yield around £ 80 million and would allow the club to go into the transfer window after various high -profile goals. However, Ferdinand is in the mind that 'many things' have to work in favor of his former club to bridge the gap that now exists between them and their historic rivals.
He added: 'There must be many things to go well for us to make a dramatic turn on it. He coaches the turn to understand what he wants, which has led to consistently achieving terrible results in the Premier League.
“He must recruit dynamic athletes. I don't want Mavericks, or players who are frilly and can do pirouettes. No, no, people who can also run past and about people. '
On Sunday, Amorim insisted that he knows how to repair the domestic slump of the club and the board informed how he intends to tackle the problems this summer.
“I talk to the board, with everyone and even with the fans at any time,” he said. “I have a clear feeling that I know what this team should be so much better, and that helped me to keep that level of not so much and not so high in some moments.”
Amorim doubled his comments after the West Ham competition and admitted that the Premier League form of United is 'embarrassing' and 'unacceptable'.
“It's hard to find another word. I am really ashamed that we won six in 25 games, “he added. 'There is something wrong in the way we play football, and sometimes it's not about the way we play tactically and technically.
'It is the way we are confronted with competition and the way we suffer and the way we get angry because we lose, and the way we protect the goal. These things that we have to improve, and sometimes it's not just within the field, it's outside the field.
'That feeling that I am talking to the end, the way we are confronted with competition. It's not okay to lose, it's not okay to draw. '