Paul Scholes names four Man Utd stars who ‘aren’t right’ for Amorim’s formation

Paul Scholes has questioned whether Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, Diogo Dalot and Noussair Mazraoui are the close acceptable for incoming manager Ruben Amorim.

After a thrilling triumph implicit Manchester City connected Tuesday, Amorim volition instrumentality complaint of his last crippled arsenic Sporting Lisbon caput manager against Braga this play earlier officially taking the reins astatine Old Trafford connected Monday.

His accomplishment could bring a alteration successful enactment connected the reddish fractional of Manchester with the Portuguese manager utilizing a 3 astatine the backmost strategy passim his coaching career, varying betwixt a 3-4-3, a 3-4-2-1 and a 3-5-2 systems.

United person six options astatine centre-half erstwhile everyone is disposable and connected paper, person the options astatine the backmost for that tactical switch.

But Scholes has concerns elsewhere connected the pitch, not convinced immoderate of the club’s guardant players ‘want to bash the disfigured broadside of the game’.

Amorim’s strategy could perchance spot accepted winger roles phased retired with wing-backs preferred. In assessing United’s options successful specified a system, Scholes questioned whether Rashford and Garnacho volition privation to ‘run back’, besides unsure if Dalot and Mazraoui are bully capable going forward.  

‘There are 3 oregon 4 players, particularly guardant players, who don’t privation to bash the disfigured broadside of the game. He’s going to person to marque them bash that,’ Scholes told TNT Sports up of the Europa League crippled against PAOK.

‘We speech astir the backmost three, we person six centre-halves they tin take from. He has got the 2 cardinal midfielders successful Casemiro and [Manuel] Ugarte. It’s the wingbacks that could beryllium the problem.

‘Does helium privation wingers who are going to tally back? If helium wants that, I’m not definite Rashford and Garnacho are close for that.

‘Does helium privation 2 wing-backs successful Dalot and Mazraoui who mightiness beryllium a small spot amended defensively but not arsenic bully going forward?’

Scholes besides suggested Kobbie Mainoo could person a cardinal relation to play nether the Portuguese manager and whitethorn payment from a much precocious relation further up the pitch.

‘He has past got his 2 no10s’ Scholes continued. ‘Fernandes is 1 of them and I really deliberation Mainoo could beryllium 1 of them too. I deliberation he’ll beryllium amended subordinate higher up, it volition suit it more.

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