“Disaster” – Man Utd treble hero can’t believe how bad the team has gotten | OneFootball

Manchester United butt can hardly recognise his former club nowadays after decaying into its current miserable state.

The fallen Premier League giants have been on a steep decline since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013, with a host of managers failing to steer the club back in the right direction. The hierarchy’s last answer has been Ruben Amorim who arrived in November to replace Erik ten Hag, but the Portuguese is the first to admit that he and his players have been underperforming this season.

And while the 40-year-old doesn’t lack self confidence, he’s well aware that the management won’t grant him too much time if the team doesn’t display signs of improvement sooner rather than later.

As for Butt, he describes the situation as disastrous, insisting that INEOS’ priority should be enhancing the squad instead of the stadium or the training ground.

“I’d pick the team because it’s more visual for everybody to see. The worldwide fans don’t see the training ground, the worldwide fans don’t always see what’s going on with Old Trafford, but in general, the team, everyone sees that the spotlights and the media on it talk about it 24/7,” argued the retired midfielder during his appearance on TalkSport.

“Collectively, it’s a disaster but one thing came out of the interview for me was at least Jim Ratcliffe speaking and at least he’s trying to address things and I think it took some kahunas, if you like, to go and arrange all the interviews the day after the Arsenal game because then anything could have happened at that game.”

Nicky Butt disappointed by Man Utd ‘disaster’

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Butt also revealed he had much higher expectation on the current team which he expected to at least challenge for Champions League qualificaiton.

“No, I don’t think anyone can and don’t think the people at the top can either because I think they generally thought we’ll scrape into the Champions League this year, we’ll keep the company’s money coming in and we’ll kick on again next year and two or three years time, we might challenge again.

“But the squad unfortunately is that far off not winning. It’s that far off even getting a Champions League or European spot and that’s the sad part of it.”