Gary Neville has called on Ruben Amorim to stop “offering yourself up” for criticism and focus on the task of rebuilding Manchester United after presiding over the club’s worst season in 51 years.
Amorim suggested that he would leave without holding talks over compensation if the Old Trafford hierarchy believe that he is not the right head coach to lead the club forward following Wednesday’s Europa League final defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
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United will not compete in European competition next season after losing in the Bilbao final and could end the Premier League campaign in 17th place on Sunday if they fail to beat Champions League-chasing Aston Villa.
“It gets to a point now whereby he offered up his job on Wednesday night and said if I have to resign, I will. You don’t need to do that, Ruben. You don’t need to offer up your job,” said Neville.
“It’s great that you have that spirit and that honesty about you and that authenticity, but now it’s time for you to stop offering yourself up, stop in some ways being as honest with us, and just go and fix the problems in the transfer window and fix the problems for the start of the season. That’s what’s needed now.”
Neville told The Athletic earlier this week that Amorim deserves “stability” and rates the 40-year-old as one of the “most engaging” managers he has come across, but believes he must now concentrate fully on how to restore United to former glories.
“He’s been given a contract, he told them he didn’t want to come in the middle of a season and obviously they convinced him to come,” said the former defender, who made 602 United appearances between 1992 and 2011.
“He knew it would be difficult to implement this system during the middle of a season, and it’s been very difficult to do so. However, pre-season now is everything and he’s got to put all focus onto that.”
Neville was speaking on Friday as part of Specsavers’ ‘Best Worst Pitch’ campaign to improve the standard of grassroots pitches at 50 clubs across the UK. The event came before it emerged that he had been denied access and accreditation by Nottingham Forest for their final game of the Premier League season against Chelsea today.
It was also two days after the Europa League final, in which United showed “nothing” according to Neville.
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“It was desperate and I hope it is the low point. The low point. The point whereby we can’t go any lower,” he said.
“Jim Ratcliffe said to me a few months ago, the club are running out of cash, and obviously on the pitch now they’re running out of life and soul.”
As a graduate of United’s famous Class of ’92, Neville also believes the club’s hierarchy should prioritise developing youth talent through the academy and resist offers for Kobbie Mainoo.
Mainoo has found his opportunities limited under Amorim and was only introduced as 90th-minute substitute in Bilbao. United were willing to consider offers for the 20-year-old during the January window to help comply with financial regulations.
“I start to question things if we can’t make Kobbie Mainoo into a football player, and we’d be selling him,” he said.
“I know it’s become a thing now whereby people sell players from their academy to facilitate PSR and financial fair play, but if Manchester United start to sell academy players to raise funds to bring in other players, I think that’s the thin end of the wedge.
Neville added: “I’ve got three simple principles for United: win, play, exciting and attractive football, and bring young players through. Really simple football values.
“At the moment they’re not doing any of the three, and if they sell their young players that have come through the academy, I think that would be a breach of a long-held value that the club has had.”
As revealed by The Athletic, Amorim informed his players on Saturday that he will remain in charge for the start of next season and told Alejandro Garnacho — another academy product — that he was free to find a new club.
Garnacho hinted at frustrations with Amorim on Wednesday night after only being brought on midway through the second half against Tottenham, adding that he would ‘see what happens’ after a summer break.
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Reacting to Garnacho’s comments before Amorim’s decision had emerged, Neville said: “I think it’ll come down to what his team-mates think of him and what his manager thinks of him, and at the moment I’m not convinced the manager thinks a lot of him or else he’s got him in the team on Wednesday night.
“What he needs to be thinking is why was I not playing? Obviously Mason Mount was preferred. I think that the challenge there for Garnacho is necessarily what does Ruben Amorim think of him?
“If he’s not starting him in a European final and playing someone who’s been out of football for what feels like two years now almost, then obviously he may be starting to question whether he needs to play elsewhere, but that’s down for the club to decide.”
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