Ruben Amorim admits he REGRETS calling his Man United side 'maybe the worst in the club's history' – as he denies shifting the blame onto players

Ruben Amorim admits he was wrong to brand his team as ‘maybe the worst in the history of Manchester United’ and says frustration got the better of him.

Amorim came out with the alarming comment after United suffered a seventh defeat in 15 games under their new head coach against Brighton on Sunday. The 39-year-old also damaged a TV in the dressing-room during a post-match rant at Old Trafford.

Amorim accepted that he could have chosen his words more carefully, but said he would be ‘delusional’ to try and paint the current situation any other way.

‘I’m a young guy and sometimes I make a mistake,’ he said ahead of Thursday’s Europa League tie against Rangers.

‘That’s why I don’t talk after the game. This game, I needed to talk and maybe it was a mistake and then I get more nervous and go to the press conference really nervous and say things I shouldn’t say, that’s it. I don’t promise you I won’t do it again, but I will try to improve.

‘Sometimes I should not say it in those terms, but it is what it is. I understand I give you that headline and I am frustrated sometimes.

His comments came in the wake of another poor result for the Red Devils – a 3-1 defeat at home to Brighton on Sunday

Goalkeeper Andre Onana made another high-profile error which Brighton capitalised on to score their third goal

‘Sometimes it’s really hard to hide the frustration in the moment. But the good thing is I said the same things in a different way in the dressing-room five minutes before. The response was quite normal because I’m really blunt with my players.

‘Was it the was the best point to do it after that loss? Maybe not, but it is what it is. I’m like that all the time. I’m not taking responsibility from the players, I am saying, I am really, really direct in things. I’m saying in this moment we are performing really bad and our results are really bad in the moment.

‘I was frustrated. If you say it’s good for the players to see the coach frustrated, maybe not. But I’m saying the obvious. If you want, I can be delusional and say different things.

‘I say it as I saw it. I said to the players, and I said to you, I think it’s a good thing to be really honest with you. You saw one thing, I saw one thing. If you are in the stadium, you can understand it. So let’s face it and work on it.

‘What I knew since the first day when I arrived and I see it, I understood changing things. We are going to suffer, is really clear.

‘It’s getting really hard and you guys are here for a long time. You get loss after loss, it’s really hard for everybody, I know that. I show that frustration but I don’t know. Maybe we can change that tomorrow.’

However, Amorim disputed that he had tried to shift the blame onto the players by being so critical of the team.

‘I was talking more for myself than for my players,’ he added. ‘If you look around, every time I speak – and I speak a lot – you push about the players are not good enough. I never put the spot on my players.

Defeat was United’s tenth in the league so far this season, meaning they are stuck in 13th place in the Premier League table

‘I’m not taking responsibility for the players. What I’m saying is that the message you guys show is I was putting it on the players. What I was saying is you have to look really hard for a Manchester United team that has lost seven out of 10 games and that is on me.

‘Because it’s the same players doing worse with a new coach, that is my only concern in the moment. I am not taking anything from the players, what I’m saying is we have to improve in the details.

‘The way we play, we are too nervous with the ball, really anxious. Then if you have limited experience in this game, when you follow in this type of context, it’s really hard to go up – especially in a massive club.’

United have lost four of their last five games at Old Trafford and Amorim admitted that his players are struggling at home as they prepare to face Rangers there on Thursday.

‘I think that is clear,’ he added. ‘I could say, “no, it’s the same thing, we have the support of the fans”. But, no, we are more nervous playing at home than away. We lost four games in five, so it’s getting harder.

‘But we can improve. If we don’t suffer the first goal like in the fourth minute, 10th minute or 15th minute, it’s really hard to calm down the team.

‘The first thing in my mind is they cannot score, we need to score the first one. If we score the first one, I think that will change and we will improve. It is really clear. We are really anxious, especially playing at home. We suffer goals and it’s really hard. It’s getting harder for everyone to play at Old Trafford.’