Exclusive: Double Premier League Winner Paul Parker Fears For Manchester United Boss Ruben Amorim's Future

Manchester United great Paul Parker believes manager Ruben Amorim will have to deliver results quickly next season or he’ll be sent pack out of the Old Trafford exit door.

The Red Devils lost a staggering 15 league games last season, their worst-ever finish in the Premier League.

And Portuguese boss Amorim even admitted himself he would walk if results didn’t improve at Old Trafford.

Parker won two Premier League crowns under legendary Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson and played for England when esteemed boss Sir Bobby Robson was in charge.

But the 61-year-old former right-back, who played 105 times for the club, expects Amorim will have his work cut out with the club going through so much change.

“The biggest thing that matters the most about any football club is what’s delivered on the football pitch, that’s the bit that makes you or breaks,” stressed Parker, speaking exclusively to SportsBoom.

“You can have the best finance in the world, but to take your football club further you need a good solid football team…and you bounce on from there.

“Manchester United are not good all over, it’s been hard to watch.

“It’s unheard of the amount of games Manchester United lost (last season), but are we just in a time where football is changing that much? 

“Is that going to happen to another club next season that gets badly managed and they suddenly drop like that.

“Just look at Tottenham last season, the amount of games they lost.

“You could soon be looking around and questioning players about what they’re doing when, in theory, anything good or bad comes from the top all the way down, it’s as simple as that.”

BILLIONAIRE INVESTMENT 

British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought a 25 per cent stake in the club in February last year, but the boyhood United fan has been widely-criticised for sacking numerous members of staff and cutting costs.

And this has come against the backdrop of bold plans to splash £2bn on a iconic new 100,000-capacity stadium close to Old Trafford.

“The stadium is a load of rubbish, what’s the point of having all that fancy stuff when it’s not working on the pitch,” added Parker, who also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Charity Shield with United.

“At the end of the day the new stadium is not going to be a football stadium, it’s obviously going to be more than a football stadium.

“The plans for this are being entertained by the ‘ultra-revenue’ they’ve promised to bring in

“But at the end of the day, supporters want to see a football team in a proper football. They don’t want to see Manchester United playing in a venue.”

Parker continued: “Football has completely changed. Football started with the rich paying the poor.

“The working-class were brought into their clubs and you had passion, desire and the game was loved.

NO HUNGER

“Players loved not getting beat, but all of a sudden it’s (football) gone to the middle-class and the hunger is just not there as much.

“The problem is football has just become so business-orientated.

“People say it (a club) has to be run like a business, but the problem is the people who want to make decisions on players are business people and not football people.

“They want to make football decisions for football people when they’re business people.

“And the biggest issue is Fifa, they use data so much these days instead of looking at the human being and finding out what’s best for them. That’s a big, big problem.

“You can’t discover a player’s attitude by just looking at data, it’s absolutely impossible.

“It doesn’t matter how far anyone runs, or what they are doing with or without the football, that can’t help football teams.”