Manchester United legend, David Beckham has backed Ruben Amorim, to succeed at the club as long as the owners give him the players he asks for.
He recently urged the club to give the Portuguese manager the tools he needs to implement his playing style.
Speaking during an interview with The Athletic, Beckham said that he believes Amorim can bring the club back to life if he is backed with the signings needed to deliver his preferred style of football.
Beckham revealed that even if he doesn’t know how financially buoyant the club would be in the summer, he is certain that Ruben can guarantee better results if he is allowed to build the team in how own image.
“I think Ruben definitely needs to be backed in bringing in the players he wants but I actually don’t know how possible it is. I don’t speak to Jim [Ratcliffe] that often, only from time to time.
Ruben needs to be backed as a manager to bring in his team and his philosophy; he’s trying that already but I think once he brings his team in and his players, then you’ll see something different,” he said.
Amid reports that club captain, Bruno Fernandes, has received a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia, Beckham immediately warned against letting the Portuguese midfielder leave this summer.
He urged the club to keep Fernandes at all costs because he is one of the few players who has really stepped up when MUFC needs him the most.
Beckham maintained that Manchester United is too big a club to be selling key players to raise money, especially homegrown players who practically grew up at the club.
He insisted that selling players should always be down to them not being good enough on the pitch, not because they are an opportunity to make profit.
“I’d like to think you wouldn’t have to sell your captain [Fernandes]. He has been exceptional. We’ve all been critical at times of some United players — but when we needed someone to step up, he has done it.
I also hate [the idea of] any young player who has grown up at United leaving the club. We shouldn’t be selling players purely for financial reasons.
It should be what they are doing on the field and if they’re not performing, there’s always a chance — we all knew that, I knew that. If I wasn’t performing on the pitch, it didn’t matter what I’d done in the past or what I was going to do in the future; there was a good chance that I was either going to get left on the bench, or I was going to get sold.
I’d like to think that Manchester United don’t sell players that have grown up at the club, understand and love the club. I don’t want to see players leave Manchester United if they care about United like I do.”
