Man Utd 'made mistake with Ruben Amorim' after claims he 'wants to quit the club'

Manchester United should have brought 'wantaway boss' Ruben Amorim to Old Trafford in the summer, not mid-season, says Clinton Morrison.

A string of dismal results saw previous head coach Erik ten Hag relieved of his duties in October last year, and the decision was made that Sporting CP's prodigious Amorim would be handed the reins just a few months into the current Premier League season.

While many expected things on the pitch to pick up immediately, they simply have not. Amorim has won just four of his first 15 league matches, and the Red Devils sit a lowly 15th in the table, not a million miles off the relegation places.

Morrison, who played nearly 100 top-flight matches for the likes of Birmingham City and Crystal Palace, believes that the Portuguese coach should have been installed to begin a new campaign as he now lacks the players capable of thriving in his system amid claims he could be eyeing up the eject button.

"If they wanted to bring in Ruben Amorim, they should have brought him in in the summer," Morrison admitted, speaking to Freebets.com. "Instead of letting Erik ten Hag stay another season and bring his players in at the start of the season.

"And then now sacking him, and then Ruben Amorim having to work with the players who probably don't understand his system - or they're not getting it at the moment.

"So it's kind of a difficult one. I think with Man United, maybe they should have made that choice early on. Now, some of those players he's brought in - I'm just saying - not good enough for Man United Football Club. And that's not being disrespectful."

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Morrison pointed out that key areas on the pitch, namely Amorim's beloved wing-back role, central-midfield, and the No. 9 position, are weaker at Old Trafford compared to what the 40-year-old was working with in Portugal.

"They're going to have to suffer, Man United fans," Morrison continued. "It's going to take two or three transfer windows until Ruben Amorim can get the players, and people can buy into how he wants to play. So it's going to be a struggle.

"Coming in and changing his style so quickly, the players haven't adjusted. They don't have wing-backs that can go and do the job that his wing-backs were doing at Sporting Lisbon. They don't have the two centre midfielders that can cover the ground. They don't have a centre forward like Viktor Gyokeres. There's a whole lot of things."

Presenter Richard Keys has also piled further misery upon the out-of-sorts boss by suggesting that Amorim wants to leave Manchester just three months after his arrival.

"They've [Man Utd] got a manager who clearly doesn't want to be there," Keys wrote on his blog. "It's never been as bad as it is now. I genuinely want to see United back at the top table of English football, but they're light years from re-joining the best."

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