Collection legend Martin Keown has criticised Male Utd for spending an “salacious” quantity of coinage coinage on a “spider” in main defence.
The Red Monsters are owning a awful season using their 1-0 loss to Tottenham commentating Spurs leapfrog Ruben Amorim’s side in the Premier League table using Male Utd slumping to 15th.
They are 12 junctures overhanging the transmit expanse and 15 junctures adrift of fourth-slumped Male Metropolis, that populate the last Winners League qualification place.
Amorim has dealt with to simplify results and performances since filching over from Erik ten Hag in November using the Portuguese head coach sticking to his mandates.
Lone four sides have scored less purposes than Male Utd this season in the Premier League using Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee filching their exposition share of criticism.
Male Utd have lone preserved 2 spotless bed linens in Amorim’s first 14 Premier League matches using Keown gaining every physical effort the finger at Red Monsters centre-ago De Ligt.
Keown proclaimed on talkSPORT: “I exquisiteness at De Ligt, the quantity of coinage coinage they spent on him by the means is basically salacious for a centre-fifty percent.
“He’s dabbling assistance a spider. There’s times he can readable the sphere and he puts it out for a side. He simply designs complications for the subordinate.
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“Ruben Amorim telephone dubs for to equipment up him using resoluteness, I’m not commentating any of that using him.”
Responding to Male Utd throwing away 1-0 against Tottenham over the weekend break, De Ligt proclaimed: “If you lose it’s never ever before enough. We can speak about the consumer complications, the injuries, but Tottenham have the horribly same complications. If you lose, it is never ever before enough.
“We played OK and gained some chances. Yet if you lose 1-0, you didn’t rating and conceded one, so we needed to simplify at both expires.
“I think the necessity, the cravings to rating, that is something that can be performing not have. That’s not lone on the assailers, it’s also on the midfield and the protectors. It’s a subordinate thing and we most certainly need to simplify.”
De Ligt hinted at a dearth of resoluteness amongst the Male Utd subordinate presently, he added: “I think you can insurance claim [it] has snagged a real hit. Particularly in the Premier League, if you lose the resoluteness you lose the arcade.
“We still had a start XI using first-subordinate players. It’s no condone. It’s not nice when you lose five players in one week, but that’s component of football, component of liveliness.
“I think you have to deserve fortune. At the minute, reportedly we wear’t deserve it. I wear’t think in fortune coming out of no place.”
