Ian Wright says Ineos have made a mistake at Man Utd, Ruben Amorim clearly isn’t happy

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Facing Liverpool and Arsenal to start the season after four consecutive losses to end 2024, most expected two straight defeats.

Manchester United surprised everybody by drawing both, beating Arsenal on penalties, before battling past Southampton, and then lost at home to Brighton.

The defeat to Brighton felt predictable, and while just one loss in four, the defeats are stacking up for Manchester United. In the Premier League it is five defeats in the last eight.

Amorim has taken the form head on, admitting the team are the ‘worst Manchester United team’, and they must fight to change it.

Ian Wright speaks on Ruben Amorim comments

Ruben Amorim’s comments have sparked plenty of discussion and on the Kelly and Wrighty show for Premier League productions, former footballer Ian Wright was asked if the comments were a message to fans.

Wright disagreed, insisting they were a clear message to the Manchester United chiefs who hired him, and believes Ineos under-estimated the challenge before them.

He said: “Ineos. Yeah I think so. I think they bit off a lot more than they could chew, Ineos.

“I don’t know if they realized what was happening when they were going to go to Man United and try to change what’s happening there, especially with the Ten Hag tenure.

“We’re talking about like 600 million pounds they spent in three years, and they still got to rebuild a whole team for this guy.”

Erik ten Hag signed 22 players, five of them with Ineos approval back in the summer. And to be fair, the majority look to have been hits – but pre-Ineos the likes of Antony and Casemiro were expensive failures, following a theme of poor spending over the past decade.

The transfer window is open, but United only have a limited budget.

Ian Wright backs Amorim decision, yet left shocked

Ian Wright added that Ruben Amorim’s frustration may be tied to his own preference to join Manchester United in summer 2025.

And while some will question whether Amorim was right, and an interim should have been appointed until the summer, Wright believes Ineos made the correct call bringing the head coach in now.

The former Premier League striker is just shocked at just how many losses United are stacking up, and the questionable performances that have come along the way.

“And this is probably when they were trying to appoint him at the start, remember, he said he’ll come at the end of the season. They said, ‘No, you come now’.

“I genuinely thought that that would have been not a bad idea, so as he can see what he’s got, get him to the end of the season and say, ‘right, I know exactly what we need’.

“But I did not expect Manchester United to be playing as badly as this.”