Ruben Amorim torn apart as Jamie Carragher tells Man Utd boss 'you're barely competent'

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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has hammered Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim, saying the Portuguese head coach is a 'barely competent' top-flight manager. The comments come after the United boss dropped an explosive post-match press conference following the draw with Leeds United , hitting out at United's sporting director, Jason Wilcox, and former defender Gary Neville .

Amorim said he wanted to be the manager of the team, not a head coach, wanting control of every department, including scouting. He then namedropped Gary Neville and called on Wilcox to do his job, while Amorim did his own.

However, that hasn't gone down well with Carragher who has blasted the United chief for his reluctance to change shape and rubbished the idea that Amorim had not been backed. "It can only be two things - it can either be about the January transfer market and feeling that he's not being backed, or the people above him are questioning the fact that, at this moment, he's been flip-flopping between systems," the Liverpool legend said on Sky Sports .

"It started to look like maybe he was getting somewhere moving to a back four, he went back to five at the back against Wolves and it brought possibly one of the worst performances of the season from a team. No matter what it is, I don't think he is in any position whatsoever to be questioning the people who appointed him.

"He's not good enough. He's not good enough to be Manchester United's manager. He's barely competent enough to be a Premier League manager right now. That's not me being disrespectful to Amorim.

"He's been there well over 12 months now and I think almost all managers in the Premier League who are managing different clubs at different ends of the table would look at Manchester United and think 'I'd get more points than that.' This is a guy who said at one stage this is possibly the worst Manchester United team in history. He's managing it."

Responding to the idea that Amorim had not been backed, Carragher said: "He's been more than backed. He couldn't have had too many complaints if the club parted company with him in the summer, with how poor it was last season.

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"They then went into the market and spent a lot of money. I'm sure he was heavily involved in that. He's playing a system that is not in the traditions of Man United, so there was no way they could go out and recruit all the attacking players, and the wing backs and perhaps the centre backs.

"It was going to be a long term plan in terms of windows. He can't be complaining now about the funds in January. Manchester United spent a huge amount in the summer. Don't forget, they had no Champions League football, no European football and a lot of that was down to him.

"Let's not forget, when he was brought in, the idea was to get them back to Champions League football. They were four points off the Champions League when he came in. They finished 15th. So when you talk about the lack of funds, that was down to him and the team, and there's no way he's going to get everything he wants in one window."

He continued: "Of course they need need better players but it can't come in one window. He - or the club - decided to go with attacking players, they could have maybe gone with one midfielder, one attacking player, one wing-back but they didn't and maybe they'll come in future windows.

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"But the people he seems to be having a go at - (chief executive) Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox - they're the ones who brought him in and were probably the ones who were fighting in the summer to keep him in a job. I'm sure Jim Ratcliffe is looking at the situation and thinking you've brought in a guy, he doesn't play the way Manchester United have in the past and the results are horrendous."

Carragher compared Amorim's comments to Enzo Maresca's recent outburst at Chelsea and subsequent departure from Stamford Bridge. He said: "This could be over very quickly. But Maresca was in a much stronger position to challenge his board and the owner than Amorim.

"He won the Club World Cup. He got the team into the Champions League. He did everything he was asked to do last season. I still didn't think it was acceptable to challenge the people above him.

"Amorim is in no position whatsoever to speak like that. As I said, he's a barely competent Premier League manager so far on what he has shown."

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