Jamie Carragher slams Ruben Amorim over 'bizarre and ridiculous' Man Utd claim
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Jamie Carragher has slammed Ruben Amorim for his ‘bizarre and ridiculous’ claim that he’s managing one of the worst Manchester United teams in history.
Amorim made the shocking admission after the Red Devils lost 3-1 at home to Brighton on Sunday in the latest setback to their dismal season.
‘We are being the worst team maybe in the history of Manchester United,’ Amorim, who only became the club’s manager in November, told reporters.
‘I know that you want headlines, but I'm saying that because we have to acknowledge that and to change that. Here you go, your headlines.'
Liverpool legend and football pundit Carragher has now offered his response to those comments, telling Sky Sports: ‘I think it was one of the most bizarre and ridiculous things I’ve ever heard a manager say.
‘Why would you make a comment like that? That’s the type of comment a pundit would make, and he’d have to defend that.
‘I don’t know what he gains from that, what the benefit is. We all know it’s a poor Manchester United team.
‘He’s just blew something up, a quote that will follow him for the rest of the season. He said to the journalists there, ‘I’ve given you your headline’ – why you would want to do that as a manager I will never know.’
‘I’ve got not much sympathy for the players in that Manchester United dressing room, they’ve been a joke for a few years now.
‘A few weeks ago after they played Liverpool there was an interview with Lisandro Martinez where he was talking about the mentality and tapping his head.
‘I nearly burst out laughing when I saw that to be honest, the amount of times Manchester United have basically threw the towel in with bad performances over the past four or five years.
‘From the manager’s point of view how can he go into the dressing room between now and the end of the season and continually build them up and give them belief, if he’s said they’re one of the worst teams in Manchester United history.
‘I’d be very surprised if the powers-that-be above him aren’t having a strong word with him. You can’t speak like that as manager of Manchester United. You don’t pour petrol on the flames’.
