Manchester United are at a disadvantage under manager Ruben Amorim and former star Nicky Butt doesn’t believe the tide will start to turn soon.
Nicky Butt says Manchester United are “rotten to the core” and won’t challenge for the Premier League title for at least eight years. The Red Devils have endured a rollercoaster decade since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement.
David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Erik ten Hag have all come and gone with varying levels of success. Ruben Amorim was appointed as his replacement last season, but the Portuguese was unable to spark a turnaround in fortunes.
United endured the worst season in Premier League history last season, and this season has gotten off to an equally disastrous start. And although they have since bounced back, Butt suggested their problems lay on the pitch and suggested that even the most capable manager would not be able to restore the club to its former glory.
The former United star said in an interview with FourFourTwo:
“If you bring back Sir Alex Ferguson, the prime minister, he won’t be able to turn things around right away, it will still take time. If you put Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp in there, it won’t work.
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“At the end of the day, I don’t think the players we have and the players we can bring in are not at the level they were before, so it’s about accepting the fact that it’s going to take five to eight years to get the club back to anywhere near winning the Premier League,” he added.
Despite Butt’s insistence that the Red Devils will not be title contenders until at least 2033, United CEO Omar Berada has insisted it is the club’s ambition to win the Premier League title by 2028.
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Speaking in the summer, he said: “We will set a set of goals within a deadline and be able to focus our efforts and energy on those goals. Can the team win the Premier League title by 2028? Of course.”
“I only finished 15th and it seems impossible. But why not aim for it? Why not give it your all?”
He added: “We strongly believe we can do it. We have two or three summers to build a team with the aim of winning the Premier League.”
“Until then, no one has said we don’t want to win. We’ve set a specific deadline, a goal, and we’re going to aim for it.”
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