Jamie Carragher was unhappy with Ruben Amorim’s comments following his team’s loss last weekend in the Premier League.
The Red Devils hosted Brighton and Hove Albion and lost 3 – 1 while playing some of the worst football they had played this season. The Portuguese manager was obviously not happy and stopped short of calling particular players out in his post match comments.
“It was similar to other games,” Amorim said after the match. “We suffer some goals we shouldn’t suffer and then it’s really hard to have possession because we are really anxious. We played some good football but only in small spaces of time.
“So it was not consistent and we get nervous and then suffer a goal again in the beginning. Then it’s really hard to turn things around. We get really anxious and really nervous and they were better. It’s palpable outside the pitch and everything gets really messy.
“You cannot train it [the nerves that Man United players show in matches]… We can manage by not suffering the goal in the beginning and put the fans on our side. You know what I mean, put the momentum with us. It is always the opposite and then, to lose again at home, it’s not acceptable.”
Carragher, speaking on Monday Night Football on Sky Sports, believes that the former Sporting CP manager made comments that are expected from pundits alone because as a manager, he could easily lose his dressing room for such statements.
The former Liverpool defender said: “I don’t know Man Utd’s history as well as Gary Neville but I must say it was one of the most bizarre and ridiculous things I’ve ever heard a manager say.
“Why you would make a comment like that… that’s the type of comment a pundit would make, someone in my position, and you’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 Man Utd team. They’d lost another game at home to Brighton, they’d done that in the last couple of years anyway. We know it’s a tough season, we know it’s a poor team. He has just loosened it up. That will be a quote that follows him for the rest of the season.
“He said to the journalists there, ‘I’ll give you your headline’. Why you would like to do that as a manager, I’ll never know.”
