Gary Neville thinks that Manchester United has to sign at least five players in the summer to replace those who are 'not good enough'.
The United Legend believes that Ruben Amorim is impeded by the stars – apparently including someone who only arrived in the winter.
United played a boring 0-0 draw on Sunday with Derby-Rivalen Manchester City and only registered two shots on goal for the Fans of Old Trafford.
After the game, Neville launched a passionate tirade and claimed that it was a 'robot-like' performance, an assessment where Amorim clapped back and critically called the former full-back about everything. '
But Neville continued to tear in his old club on Sky Sports afterwards and claimed that five players should be replaced.
'From a united perspective I get why it went back to a layer of block. But that is what we have seen from Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Erik ten Hag, “he said.
'They all arrived with the intention of playing high-press, energetic football, but all go back to a low block in large matches.
'I understand why Ruben Amorim did that today, with the players he has, because he did not have the players adjusted.
'They immediately need five new players before you even think about it.
'The three in the front are not good enough and the two wing backs, they are not good enough. They need five players. They must be of service to him with five players who are good enough in this system to be able to play his system as he wants. '
Neville seems to call Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho, Joshua Zirkzee, Diogo Dalot and Patrick Dorgu, who only came to the last transfer window.
Bruno Fernandes started three at the front, but it seems unlikely that Neville would point to him, considering how free he has been his. “He is only the real player of the absolute quality of United,” said the Englishman.
Although the misery of the forward three are well documented, Dalot comes less often for criticism, since he won the player of the year of the players for the 2023-24 season.
In 85 collective Premier League performances this season Hojlund, Garnacho and Zirkzee have only managed 10 goals.
Their ability on the ball is clear and often praised, but United is Sub-Par in creating and taking risks.
Earlier this season, Hojlund went 22 hours and 19 minutes without finding the net.
What will encourage Amorim is that United has enjoyed an increase in the results.
The Red Devils have only lost two of their last nine games in all matches – once on penalties for Fulham and the other to Nottingham Forest last week – but they only won three.
“At the moment it is still very difficult every day, but of course you can imagine that the next season will be so much different,” Amorim said on Sunday.
“That's why I always say that I am in a hurry because we suffer a lot. Everyone here suffers a lot from all these changes, and we have to show something the following year.
'We have so many aspects to improve: structure, transition, decisions in the last third part. Every player can improve. They are here because they have shown something at other clubs. They have the quality, but we are still a team that plays at transition and we have to spend more time in the last third to have more opportunities. '
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