Rio Ferdinand has now made a major comparison between Manchester United players under Ruben Amorim and those under Sir Alex Ferguson.
Ruben Amorim was the sixth permanent head coach at the Red Devils since the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement as a football manager.
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The 41-year-old Manchester United manager’s reign at Old Trafford lasted only 14 months after he replaced Erik ten Hag at the Premier League club in 2024.
Amorim was sacked as Man Utd head coach in January and the Red Devils brought Michael Carrick back as interim manager until the end of the 2025-26 campaign.
The ex-Sporting CP boss endured an ill-fated spell at the Premier League club, with the Red Devils in sixth place at the time of Amorim’s dismissal from United.
Rio Ferdinand spotlights Sir Alex Ferguson’s time at Man Utd and the Red Devils’ situation around Ruben Amorim
Rio Ferdinand made his comparison between Sir Alex Ferguson and Ruben Amorim after discussing his interview with Manchester United and Portugal star Diogo Dalot.
The 47-year-old United legend talked about Diogo Dalot’s reaction around Amorim and admitted that there was much more stability with Ferguson’s reign at United.
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“Yeah, I mean, listen, the interview will go into that,” he said on Rio Ferdinand Presents.
“But listen, sometimes you are… I’ve been in situations where a manager comes in and you go, ‘He’s got the reins, just take us, because that’s all we knew.’
“We knew that from Sir Alex Ferguson. There were situations that we would help and sort out.
“But when it’s a new manager, you’re waiting for him to set the parameters, to set the reboot of the club, and you’re looking to just follow that lead.”
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Rio Ferdinand on how ex-Man Utd stars would have handled things amid his Sir Alex Ferguson and Ruben Amorim remarks
Ferdinand was challenged on how dressing room changes would have been handled by the likes of United legends Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs back in his playing days.
The ex-TNT Sports pundit agreed that key former Man Utd figures would have stepped up, but he insisted the Red Devils lack the same kind of personalities now.
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“Yeah, definitely,” Ferdinand added.
“I think that’s something that we would have. But I think that, listen, we were a seasoned kind of… the operation was running on autopilot.
“There [were] guys in there that knew how to run a dressing room, knew how to run a dressing room that was successful.
“These guys are looking to be led to that, and that’s where the difference, I think, comes in.”
Michael Carrick has now won four of his opening five Premier League matches as interim Man Utd manager in the post-Amorim era of the Red Devils.
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