Ruben Amorim has hit back at social media posts from Harry Amass and Chido Obi, claiming that Manchester United players are being held back by their own sense of ‘entitlement’.
Last week, Amorim dismissed suggestions that he is reluctant to use to United’s academy players in his first team and said that Amass is ‘struggling in the Championship’, while Obi ‘is not always a starter in under 21s’.
In response to Amorim’s assessment, Amass, who is on loan at Sheffield Wednesday, posted a picture of himself holding the club’s Player of the Month award before it was quickly deleted.
Obi, meanwhile, has been out due to injury but posted a picture of himself celebrating a goal for United’s Under-21s.
When asked about the response from Amass and Obi, Amorim said on Friday: ‘I think it is a little bit the feeling of entitlement we have in our club.
‘Sometimes, strong words is not bad words. Sometimes, difficult moments are not bad things for the kids. We don’t need to be always with accolades in everything, in every situation.
‘That’s why you guys talk about a lot of players nowadays, that they speak, they go against the clubs and everything happens because they feel entitlement. Then you have legends of the club who say if you don’t play, leave, because everyone is wrong. No, let’s think about… let’s stay, let’s fight, let’s overcome, maybe the manager is wrong.
‘So, I have that feeling all the time that we need to fight against this feeling. Sometimes, I’m the first one to say I’m failing this club inside the pitch. I have that feeling, we are not performing the way we should be.
‘But outside the pitch, I guarantee I am not failing this club.
‘So, I think it’s something in our club. We talk about the players sometimes forget what it means to play for Manchester United, we as a club sometimes forget who we are and that is the feeling I have.
‘I understand everything, it’s the environment, it’s the moment of the players, the kids, they feel entitled. They feel free to respond to the manager with a picture. My office is open, nobody is coming to talk to me and that is the way we can solve things. So, I think we need to change first as a club and then everything is going to change.
‘I didn’t say nothing wrong, I just spoke about how the luck of playing for Manchester United. Sometimes you play for Manchester United and go see different realities and you understand that football can be so different, and that you are really lucky to be in Manchester United. That was my point but, again, let’s move on and in time I think these things will change.’
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