Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has hit out at the club’s manager and hierarchy, saying they don’t understand what it required and are at the wrong club.
It is proving to be another tricky season for the Red Devils, although their form in the Premier League has improved on last campaign.
A 4-1 victory at Wolves on Monday night saw Manchester United climb to sixth in the top flight, just one point off the top four.
Scholes, in fairness, was talking before that win at Molineux but after a drab 1-1 home draw against West Ham last week.
The Red Devils icon is not impressed with, what he considers, a conservative approach from manager Ruben Amorim and a confusing style of play.
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The former midfielder says it is not just Amorim’s fault, but also lays the blame with CEO Omar Berrada and Director of Football Jason Wilcox.
‘I don’t think this manager gets this club, full stop. I just don’t think he’s the right man,’ Scholes said on The Good, The Bad and The Football.
‘Man United is about risk and entertainment, more than anything. At home having fans on the edge of their seats ready to go, wingers who beat people, shots on goal, bits of skill. There’s nothing there.
‘Do you know what though? That’s from the club. They’ve got Omar Berrada, they’ve got Jason Wilcox, who are probably brilliant at their jobs, brilliant at what they do, but they’re not Man United, they don’t have a clue what it’s like to buy a Manchester United player and to bring a Manchester United manager in.
‘Ruben Amorim, to bring that manager in. If you go to Sporting Lisbon and watch, they play three at the back. Right away that’s a no. Man United never do that. They cant do that. It’s been proven over years and years and years.
‘I’m talking even before Sir Alex Ferguson, it was always about 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2. Entertaining people. He hasn’t got that in him.
‘Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada. They’ve probably gone out and watched Sporting Lisbon. How can they think that’s a Manchester United manager?
‘There’s nobody there who knows what United is, what it takes to be a United player, what it takes to run the club.
‘They might be brilliant people, they might be brilliant at their job. But they’re at the wrong club.’
The 51-year-old is not just critical of a lack of aggression and flair from Amorim’s side, but is not even sure what the Red Devils manager is trying to do with his team.
‘They look like a badly coached team,’ he said. ‘When you see a Premier League team now, you know what they’re trying to do.
‘Unai Emery at Aston Villa, you know the way they’re going to score goals. Morgan Rogers number 10, they play it into Ollie Watkins.
‘I don’t know what Man United are trying to do. I don’t see the patterns of play where they’re going to open a team up.’
After victory at Wolves, Amorim sounded positive, saying: ‘I’m feeling good. I think we played well, most of the time.
‘I think we disconnected a little bit after the first goal, that hurt us. But in the second half, everyone felt we were there to win the game and that was a good feeling.
‘We have always to build momentum. We need to reach a point in this club that we can have 20 wins in a row, the next one is so important and crucial to win. For us, every training, every game is important, so we need to focus on the next one and to win the next one.’