Ruben Amorim has been proven correct on ex-Manchester United players after Paul Scholes offered some embarrassing analysis on one target.
Manchester United have had a terrible season and that brings upon criticism from every single section of the media in England.
However, those who are most loud seem to almost always be the club’s former players, with the likes of Paul Scholes, Roy Keane and Gary Neville always talking about United’s struggles right now.
While everyone is entitled to their opinion, Ruben Amorim recently suggested that some of these ex-players lack the ability to apply context to their analysis.
“I understand that former players had a lot of success here and the standards for them were so high that they see the things like that sometimes as black and white,” he said.
“In life sometimes it’s not just black and white, there is some other colours and you have to understand the context.”
Scholes’ analysis on Cunha makes no sense
Those comments have been proven completely correct after Scholes’ latest rant about his ex-club, this time to do with summer target Matheus Cunha.
Fans already slammed the former midfielder for suggesting that Cunha will not succeed at Old Trafford before he has even signed for the club.
However, when he actually analyses the reasons why he has doubts over the move, Scholes simply embarasses himself as a pundit.
“With Cunha, is he a centre-forward or is he a wide player? There’s no doubt that he has quality and of course, it would be nice to sign him, but I worry about where he fits in,” he said in his TNT Sports column.
“You can sign the best three players in the world, and I think they’ll struggle coming into this team at the minute, but they’ve got to start somewhere.”
Scholes proves Amorim correct
It feels like Scholes is reading from a script and does not actually know the player he’s talking about.
United have been extremely guilty of poor recruitment over the last decade and signing players who didn’t fit into the system at the club. That is simply not the case with Cunha, who already plays the same system at his current team.
Cunha is thriving in a 3-4-3 formation at Wolves, playing on the left side of the front three but Scholes is somehow confused as to where he fits into Amorim’s team.
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Most of the time, especially at the moment, negative analysis on United is fair and needed. But it always has to go over the top and Scholes’ comments are the perfect example of Amorim’s assessment – there’s little context added.
It doesn’t help that it feels almost impossible to escape the ex-United players that are plastered across punditry, YouTube and sports columns.
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