{"id":177114,"date":"2025-09-29T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:28:07","slug":"man-united-soul-is-gone-no-faith-in-amorim-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177114\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United ‘soul’ is gone, no faith in Amorim – Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Rooney has no faith in Ruben Amorim to turn things around at Manchester United<\/a> and believes the soul has gone from his former club.<\/p>\n

Head coach Amorim has taken just 34 points from his 33 Premier League<\/a> games in charge following Saturday’s 3-1 loss<\/a> at Brentford<\/a> and is yet to oversee consecutive top-flight wins.<\/p>\n

Rooney, United’s all-time leading goalscorer, said he goes to games expecting the team to lose and feels some players do not deserve to represent the club.<\/p>\n

Despite the ongoing poor form, which includes last month’s Carabao Cup<\/a> exit at League Two Grimsby<\/a>, Amorim reportedly retains the backing of United’s board.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim and his players have still failed to win back to back matches after losing to Brentford.\u00a0Richard Pelham\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“I just don’t know what’s going on,” Rooney, 39, said on his BBC podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I have tried my hand in management and it didn’t work out too well, so I get it.<\/p>\n

“Ruben Amorim is my age, he’s still a young manager and I’m sure he’s got a massive future, but what’s going on at Man Utd, this is not Man Utd.<\/p>\n

“I honestly hope he can turn it round and he does. But… after everything I’ve seen, honestly, I’ve got no faith in it.”<\/p>\n

Amorim was appointed as Erik ten Hag’s successor last November after winning two Portuguese titles with Sporting CP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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United endured their worst Premier League campaign last season, finishing 15th — their lowest position since they were relegated from the old First Division in 1974.<\/p>\n

“I don’t recognise the whole football club,” said Rooney, who won five Premier League titles and the Champions League with United.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see players fighting, I don’t see character, I don’t see desire to win. I go to a game watching… expecting the team to lose or maybe pick up a point.<\/p>\n

“The soul has gone from the club. It needs a new engine, a new lease of life. It needs something to kickstart that football club.<\/p>\n

“What is going on, this is not all on the manager, by the way. Players, they’re not deserving to wear that shirt and it hurts.”<\/p>\n

Wayne Rooney won five Premier League titles at Manchester United, including their most recent triumph in 2013.\u00a0ANDREW YATES\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Rooney scored 253 goals in 559 appearances for United between 2004 and 2017.<\/p>\n

“The culture of that football club has gone,” added the former England<\/a> captain.<\/p>\n

“I see it on a daily basis, I see staff losing jobs, people walking out of jobs.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got two kids [in the academy] at that football club and I really hope this doesn’t affect what they’re doing — what I’m seeing at that football club is not Manchester United.”<\/p>\n

United, who sit 14th in the table, return to action on Saturday at home to Sunderland<\/a> before travelling to leaders Liverpool<\/a> after the October international break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney has no faith in Ruben Amorim to turn things around at Manchester United and believes the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-177114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}