Ruben Amorim sends brutal message to £70 million Man Utd transfer flop

Ruben Amorim has dropped his strongest hint yet that Casemiro has played his past crippled for Manchester United.

The Brazil planetary hasn’t featured since the crook of the twelvemonth having struggled severely and looked a shadiness of his erstwhile aforesaid during past month’s 2-0 location decision against Newcastle.

Casemiro was an unused substitute successful past night’s past gasp Europa League triumph implicit Rangers and is improbable to diagnostic this play against Fulham

The erstwhile Real Madrid prima has been heavy linked with a determination to the Saudi Pro League and a reunion with Cristiano Ronaldo.

Asked wherefore a subordinate who outgo £70 cardinal two-and-a-half years agone isn’t getting immoderate crippled time, Amorim said: ‘I person to take the subordinate with characteristics that I spot the game. So it’s conscionable that.

‘I person to marque immoderate choices. I privation to play a benignant of crippled that is sometimes antithetic from different coaches.’

Amorim, meanwhile, has said helium does not cognize if Marcus Rashford volition enactment oregon spell successful the last days of the January transportation window.

Rashford was seen grooming with his United team-mates connected Wednesday greeting but helium was not included successful the matchday squad for Thursday’s game, with Amorim naming lone 9 of 12 substitutes. Rashford has not played for United since December 12.

It is much than 5 weeks since Rashford, 27, told writer Henry Winter helium was acceptable for a caller challenge, but nary determination has yet materialised contempt links with AC Milan and Barcelona.

Asked if Rashford would present beryllium staying astatine United for the remainder of the season, Amorim said: ‘I don’t know. I truly don’t know. Guys, it’s 8 days (until the extremity of the window). We volition spot successful the extremity of the model what happened. And past we volition speech astir it successful that moment.’

Amorim’s comments came aft helium was likewise vague connected the aboriginal of Alejandro Garnacho. The 20-year-old, linked with Napoli and Chelsea, started the Rangers triumph but asked astir his aboriginal aft the game, Amorim said ‘let’s spot successful the adjacent fewer days’.

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