Bruno Fernandes believes Manchester United were ‘constructing something’ under Ruben Amorim before ‘abruptly’ the club ‘decided we’d like a change’.
Amorim lost his job at Old Trafford in early January after 14 months answerable for the Premier League giants.
Manchester United finished just fifteenth last season and failed to save lots of a miserable campaign in Europe as they lost to Tottenham within the Europa League final.
The Red Devils actually improved within the first-half of this season, with United sixth within the Premier League on the time of Amorim’s sacking.
But there have been also several concerning results, with the Manchester club losing to Grimsby Town within the Carabao Cup and in addition going out of the FA Cup on the earliest possible opportunity.
Manchester United have improved drastically since club legend Michael Carrick was appointed caretaker manager, climbing to 3rd within the Premier League, just six points behind Manchester City.
But captain Fernandes has still appeared to query the choice to sack Amorim, insisting his fellow Portuguese was ‘constructing something’ before his exit.
Asked what it’ll take for Manchester United to challenge for major trophies once more, Fernandes told The Times: ‘Difficult to say because we modified manager.
‘We were constructing something [under Ruben Amorim] and all of a sudden the club decided we’d like to vary.
‘After which with Michael [Carrick] we’ve this last spell where we’ve been great until now, with the chance of the Champions League next season.
‘If we finish the best way we wish to complete, it’s going to look superb, but it’s still not the image we wish.
‘[Can we] be the team we’ve been on this spell, but for a full season? Because anyone could be good in spells. Being good in the entire season is rather more difficult.
‘That’s something we haven’t done since I’m here. We’d like that consistency. In a full league, every point matters. Every small detail will make a difference.’
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Amorim was clearly popular with some members of the Manchester United squad, with former captain Harry Maguire recently tipping the 41-year-old to have an ‘amazing profession’ going forwards.
‘I believe Ruben was really good with me. I just about played every game under Ruben once I was fit,’ Maguire, who has signed a contract extension at Old Trafford, told The Mirror.
‘I don’t really have much bad to say about Ruben. I actually like Ruben, I believe he’s got great ideas. The ideas just didn’t work at Manchester United.
‘I do consider he’ll go on and have an incredible profession, and his next club he’ll probably go and win many, many football matches.
‘It just didn’t click or work and I believe us as players have gotten to take plenty of responsibility for that as well.
‘But I believe he has led the club in a direction, and I do think he deserves plenty of credit for that, where he’s built an excellent, solid squad and I do consider that he deserves credit for that.
‘I spoke to him when he left. He wished us all the very best. I’m sure he would have been upset, but I do know he’s still really, really young and I’m sure he’s going to go on to great things in management.’
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