Neville tells how Amorim got it wrong as Man Utd fans 'need entertaining'

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by Chris Hetherington
Wednesday, 31 December 2025 at 14:53
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Gary Neville says that Ruben Amorim needs to understand that Manchester United fans need to be "entertained" after a stale 1-1 draw at home to Wolves.
The team was booed off at half-time and at the end of the game where Amorim had returned to a back three which has failed to bring success so far.
"After 20 minutes I think my words were they might score two in the next 10 minutes, but this is not right," said Neville. "And I've been very complimentary of the last two or three performances, Bournemouth, Villa, Newcastle, because there have been things in those three performances that I've liked."
And Neville said that entertainment is especially important at Old Trafford with the history of swashbuckling football.
"I genuinely believe that entertainment and performance matters. It matters for two reasons at this club one is that these fans come here to be entertained like every single other football fan in the country but you've got to entertain here," said Neville.
"There's 75,000 of them coming and they want entertaining and secondly I genuinely believe that performance leads to results. I know some people say, "Oh, results, everything." But it's very difficult to win a lot of football matches if you're not performing well.
Yeah, we all come out with the old cliche of it's great to win when you don't play well, but that can only be maintained for a short period of time. Eventually, if you're not playing well, you'll start to basically fall over in your results."
And he continued: "If the performances are good but you draw against Bournemouth and you lose against Villa, we're a glass half empty club when it comes to performance.
"We'll actually live with if we're entertained and that sounds really crazy from a group of players that have you know played out here and won trophies but honestly I just come here to be entertained.
"That's the first thing that I think, I want to walk across that fork or and see my team play brilliant football and excite the crowd because that's the kid in me that sat over there in this stand. So when I see that we go back after five minutes tonight I'm thinking, 'Rubin why have you done that?'."

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