Gary Neville says Manchester United need five new signings to suit Ruben Amorim’s system.
United are 13th in the Premier League after drawing 0-0 at home to Manchester City on Sunday, having won only two of their last eight league games.
Amorim has stuck with his favoured 3-4-3 formation with varying success after signing left wing-back Patrick Dorgu in a £30m deal from Lecce during the winter transfer window – but Sky Sports’ Neville believes they need plenty more additions.
“From a United perspective, I get why [Amorim’s] gone deep, I get why he’s gone back into a low block,” said Neville. “But that’s what we’ve seen from Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Erik Ten Hag.
“They’ve all come in with the intention of playing high-press, high-energy football, but all end up going back to a low block in big games.
“I do understand why Ruben Amorim’s done that today, with the players he’s got, because he hasn’t got the players to adapt. They need five new players straight away before you even think about the rest of it.
“The three up front are not good enough and the two wing-backs, they’re not good enough. They need five players. They need to serve him with five players who are good enough in this system to be able to play his system the way he wants.”
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