Amorim has earned a popularity for his explosive information conferences since becoming a member of United in November 2024.

In January 2025, he described his staff as “perhaps the worst” within the 147-year historical past of the membership.

“Certainly one of his greatest traits and most likeable issues about him has all the time been his means to be fairly punchy in his press conferences,” former United centre-back Rio Ferdinand mentioned on his podcast.

“He was upbeat, and he had fairly a jovial approach about him.”

The Portuguese supervisor’s feedback final month on striker Chido Obi and left-back Harry Amass, each 18, additionally raised questions over his dedication to the membership’s academy.

Attempting to emphasize he’s not scared to play younger gamers, he criticised the efficiency ranges of Obi and Amass, who’s on mortgage at Sheffield Wednesday.

“Amass was doing rather well and received participant of the month, when you had Chido scoring objectives within the under-21s,” mentioned former United defender Phil Jones on BBC Radio 5 Dwell’s The Monday Night time Membership.

“The academy is a large half and can all the time be a large a part of the DNA of the membership and I do not suppose that helped him in any approach.”

Carragher, who believes Amorim could be “backside of the record” of managers to have succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson on the membership since 2013, added: “Finest a part of Amorim was his performances within the press conferences – not the performances of his groups.

“At instances, it felt like he was nearly as good a pundit as Gary Neville when speaking about United. However the issue was that he was the supervisor.”

“I do not suppose it has been simply sound bites from Amorim,” Neville mentioned.

“I feel he is meant each single phrase that he mentioned. I feel that he is an actual, real, sincere man. I do not suppose he is somebody who’s taking part in the sport. He was completely all in each time he did something.

“But when the performances are that poor and the outcomes are so poor, it does not matter how likeable or sincere you’re. You are going to get sacked at a membership like United.”