Jamie Carragher slams Ruben Amorim over ‘bizarre and ridiculous’ Man Utd claim

Jamie Carragher has slammed Ruben Amorim for his ‘bizarre and ridiculous’ assertion that he’s managing 1 of the worst Manchester United teams successful history.

Amorim made the shocking admission aft the Red Devils mislaid 3-1 astatine location to Brighton connected Sunday successful the latest setback to their dismal season.

‘We are being the worst squad possibly successful the past of Manchester United,’ Amorim, who lone became the club’s manager successful November, told reporters.

‘I cognize that you privation headlines, but I’m saying that due to the fact that we person to admit that and to alteration that. Here you go, your headlines.’

Liverpool fable and shot pundit Carragher has present offered his effect to those comments, telling Sky Sports: ‘I deliberation it was 1 of the astir bizarre and ridiculous things I’ve ever heard a manager say.

‘Why would you marque a remark similar that? That’s the benignant of remark a pundit would make, and he’d person to support that.

‘I don’t cognize what helium gains from that, what the payment is. We each cognize it’s a mediocre Manchester United team.

‘He’s conscionable blew thing up, a punctuation that volition travel him for the remainder of the season. He said to the journalists there, ‘I’ve fixed you your headline’ – wherefore you would privation to bash that arsenic a manager I volition ne'er know.’ 

‘I’ve got not overmuch sympathy for the players successful that Manchester United dressing room, they’ve been a gag for a fewer years now. 

‘A fewer weeks agone aft they played Liverpool determination was an interrogation with Lisandro Martinez wherever helium was talking astir the mentality and tapping his head.

‘I astir burst retired laughing erstwhile I saw that to beryllium honest, the magnitude of times Manchester United person fundamentally threw the towel successful with atrocious performances implicit the past 4 oregon 5 years. 

‘From the manager’s constituent of presumption however tin helium spell into the dressing country betwixt present and the extremity of the play and continually physique them up and springiness them belief, if he’s said they’re 1 of the worst teams successful Manchester United history.

‘I’d beryllium precise amazed if the powers-that-be supra him aren’t having a beardown connection with him. You can’t talk similar that arsenic manager of Manchester United. You don’t determination petrol connected the flames’. 

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