Man United legend slams Garnacho: "Clear out the squad" | OneFootball

The Manchester United of the 2025/26 season looks quite different from the one that ended last season, at least in terms of names. Many new players have arrived to refresh the squad, and several others, discarded by Rúben Amorim, have left. Among them is Alejandro Garnacho, whose departure - and that of the others - was seen as a demonstration of authority.

Or at least that's how Rio Ferdinand, one of the club's last golden era legends and the captain of Sir Alex Ferguson's squad in the 2000s and the early years of the past decade, understands it. "I'm glad that the recruitment team executes what the coach thinks and that [Amorim] has the ability to decide for himself," the former English central defender told the Daily Mail.

For Ferdinand, the Manchester United management has given the reins of the club to Rúben Amorim and fully supports him for this new campaign. And far from siding with Garnacho and the players who left, Ferdinand declared: "As important as the players who arrived and raised the level was getting rid of the players who, for whatever reason, were not considered right for the club. They have done a magnificent job."

"Most have gone on loan, yes, but cleaning the squad of those players was as powerful as the very act of bringing in good players," he stated, and although he cited the departure of André Onana and the arrival of Semme Lammens as the new goalkeeper as an example, his stance extends to all the players who left the club because Amorim was not going to consider them, like Garnacho.

That said, the start of the season has been quite chaotic for Rúben Amorim, and from this Sunday's Manchester Derby, he is obliged to start repaying the trust placed in him by the club's management and steer a course that has been off track for more than a decade.

The players discarded by Amorim who had to leave Manchester United

In this last market, more than a dozen players have left Manchester United because Rúben Amorim did not plan to consider them, with examples like Garnacho, Rashford, and Jadon Sancho being the most notable, but not the only ones.

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