Cristiano Ronaldo: Manchester United legend speaks about Ruben Amorim future, Premier League defeats

Cristiano Ronaldo backs Ruben Amorim to win astatine Manchester United and insists that the club's aboriginal is bright.

The Red Devils' 2-0 nonaccomplishment against Wolverhampton Wanderers connected Boxing Day compounded a miserable Christmas play for fans, and saw the nine sink to 14th spot successful the Premier League table.

United could look further embarrassment successful the adjacent future, with the squad acceptable to play Newcastle United, Liverpool and Arsenal successful their adjacent 3 fixtures.

Amorim has present mislaid 5 of his 10 games successful complaint since replacing Erik 10 Hag successful the Old Trafford dugout, and has himself insisted that the squad are a agelong mode from being acceptable to challenge.

Speaking astatine the Globe Soccer Awards successful Dubai, Ronaldo voiced beardown enactment of Amorim and backed his erstwhile nine to get backmost to their glory days, saying: "He (Amorim) did a fantastic occupation successful Portugal with my (club) Sporting, but the Premier League is simply a antithetic beast, the astir competitory league successful the world.

"I knew that it would beryllium pugnacious and they volition proceed the storm. But the tempest volition decorativeness and the prima volition rise."

Amorim helped pb Sporting Lisbon to the Primeira Liga rubric successful 2020-21, winning Sporting's archetypal league successful 19 years and ending the Benfica and Porto's dominance successful the Portuguese apical flight.

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Was Ronaldo right?

Ronaldo near Juventus and joined United for a 2nd clip successful 2021 but his fairy communicative instrumentality to Old Trafford came to a premature extremity aft helium took portion successful a arguable interrogation successful November 2022.

The 39-year-old criticised the nine arsenic a whole, and helium reiterated astatine the Globe Soccer Awards his content that United indispensable fundamentally change, saying: "I said this 1 twelvemonth and a fractional agone and I volition proceed to accidental it: the occupation is not the coaches.

"It's similar the aquarium and you person the food wrong and it's sick, and you instrumentality him retired and hole the problem. If you enactment it backmost successful the aquarium it volition beryllium sick again. This is the occupation of Manchester United. It is the same."

It is hard to disagree with the legendary subordinate considering the nine are connected way to grounds conscionable 49 points which would beryllium 9 less than the 58 points they tallied successful 2021-22, their existent lowest full successful Premier League history.

Amorim deserves clip and patience astatine United, particularly arsenic helium has not had the payment of being capable to alteration the broadside with caller arrivals, and it would beryllium harsh to blasted him for immoderate of the club's structural issues.

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