Gary Neville launched a scathing assessment of the first few months of the Ruben Amorim era at Manchester United in the wake of the club’s most recent setback.
The Red Devils were handed a chastening 2-0 defeat by Crystal Palace at Old Trafford on Sunday, which consigned the club to a seventh Premier League defeat under Amorim.
In fact, United have now lost five of their seven home league matches under Amorim, in a worrying run of form for the club.
‘I thought it would get better when Ruben Amorim came in, he said on the Gary Neville Podcast. ‘I thought the enthusiasm and the new system, I thought they’d buy into it the players, and we’d see a bounce.
‘We’ve seen the absolute opposite. It’s got a lot worse and that’s surprising.’
He continued: ‘But there’s going to be a lot more pain towards the end of the season and it is going to be damaging.
‘They’re obviously going to stick with Ruben Amorim, but the more you lose, the more difficult it is to convince the players of the idea. The idea that he talked about in the early days.
‘You need the players to buy into it, but if they lose with it, and they keep getting criticised, the spotlight comes on them more and the fans are leaving unhappy.
‘You can’t keep losing. It will depress the thoughts of the players, to the point whereby they’ll lose faith with the idea.”
United are currently 13th with only eight wins from 24 after the weekend’s results
