Rooney: ‘Soul has gone’ at Manchester United, questions Amorim’s leadership

Wayne Rooney has sounded the alarm on his former membership, claiming that the “soul has gone” at Manchester United, elevating doubts over head coach Ruben Amorim’s potential to show the crew round.

Saturday’s 3-1 defeat at Brentford noticed United accumulate simply 34 factors from Amorim’s 33 league video games in cost, and the facet has but to register back-to-back wins below the Portuguese head coach.

After main the English giants to their lowest-ever Premier League final season, in addition to falling to defeat within the Europa League remaining in opposition to Tottenham, the Pink Devils have misplaced three of their six league video games thus far, in addition to crashing out of the EFL Cup to League Two facet Grimsby City.

Sitting 14th within the Premier League, United at the moment are winless of their final eight Premier League away video games (D2 L6), their longest run since March and October 2019 (D3 L5).

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The membership’s all-time main scorer expressed his considerations on the most recent episode of BBC podcast The Wayne Rooney Present: “I’m not seeing something which is giving me any confidence, there must be massive modifications for my part,” Rooney mentioned. “Supervisor, gamers, no matter that’s. No matter it takes to get Manchester United again.”

“There must be a transparent message from the house owners.

“Whether or not that’s the Glazers, [minority owner] Sir Jim Ratcliffe, there must be a message of the place this membership goes. On the minute we’re all sitting there ready for it to crumble.”

Since Amorim’s first recreation as United boss in November 2024, no crew has conceded the primary objective in additional completely different Premier League video games than Manchester United (21).

“I actually hope he can flip it spherical and he does. However in the event you’re saying to me, ‘do you imagine he’ll?’, then, after all the pieces I’ve seen, actually, I’ve received no religion in it,” Rooney added.

“The soul has gone from the membership. It wants a brand new engine, a brand new lease of life. It wants one thing to kickstart that soccer membership.”