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

The Manchester United of the 2025/26 season looks quite different from the one that finished 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 show of authority.

Or at least that’s how Rio Ferdinand sees it, one of the club’s legends from its last golden era and the captain of Sir Alex Ferguson’s squad during the 2000s and the early years of the last decade. “I’m glad that the recruitment team is executing what the coach wants and that [Amorim] has the ability to decide for himself ,” the former English central defender told the Daily Mail.

For Ferdinand, Manchester United’s management has handed the reins of the club to Rúben Amorim and fully supports him heading into this new campaign. And far from siding with Garnacho and the players who left, Ferdinand declared: “ Just as important as the players who arrived and raised the level was getting rid of the players who, for whatever reason, were not considered the right fit for the club . They’ve done a magnificent job.”

“Most of them have gone out on loan, yes, but clearing the squad of those players was as powerful as actually bringing in good players ,” he said. And although he cited the departure of André Onana and the arrival of Semme Lammens as the new goalkeeper as an example, his stance applies to all the players who left the club because Amorim was not going to count on them, like Garnacho.

That said, the start of the season has been quite chaotic for Rúben Amorim, and starting with this Sunday’s Manchester Derby, he is obliged to start repaying the trust the club’s board has placed in him and to set a course for a club that has been off track for more than a decade.

In this latest transfer window, more than a dozen players have left Manchester United because Rúben Amorim did not plan to count on them, with the examples of Garnacho, Rashford, and Jadon Sancho being the most notable, but not the only ones.

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