""I just don't know what's going on," Rooney, 39, said on his BBC podcast. "I have tried my hand in management and it didn't work out too well, so I get it. "Ruben Amorim is my age, he's still a young manager and I'm sure he's got a massive future, but what's going on at Man Utd, this is not Man Utd. "I honestly hope he can turn it round and he does. But... after everything I've seen, honestly, I've got no faith in it.""
""I don't recognise the whole football club," said Rooney, who won five Premier League titles and the Champions League with United. "I don't see players fighting, I don't see character, I don't see desire to win. I go to a game watching... expecting the team to lose or maybe pick up a point. "The soul has gone from the club. It needs a new engine, a new lease of life. It needs something to kickstart that football club.""
Ruben Amorim has collected 34 Premier League points from 33 games and has not achieved consecutive top-flight wins. Manchester United exited the Carabao Cup to League Two Grimsby and endured a 15th-place finish last season, the club's worst since 1974. Wayne Rooney expects United to lose matches and judges some players undeserving of representing the club. Rooney states that players lack fight, character, and desire, and that the club's soul has gone. The Manchester United board reportedly continues to back Amorim despite sustained poor form and calls for a renewed driving force.
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