Gary Neville expressed his frustrations at Luke Shaw’s lacklustre showing during Manchester United’s defeat to Everton.
The defender retained his place in the XI for the visit of the Toffees on Monday night and played the full 90 minutes as United slumped to a 1-0 defeat.
Luke Shaw is overseeing an extended run without fitness setbacks
So far this season, Shaw has been available to start every fixture, which has come as a substantial boost for Ruben Amorim, given how unrelenting the player’s injury woes have been throughout his Red Devils tenure.
For example, he was limited to only 12 appearances across all competitions in 2024/2025 and missed a whopping 43 matches. His lengthy spells on the sidelines prompted INEOS to act on the market mid-season by sanctioning a deal for Patrick Dorgu.
Lisandro Martinez likely to replace Shaw in gameweek 13
In the build-up to last night’s contest, Amorim suggested that the 30-year-old had been deputising at left centre-back in the absence of Lisandro Martinez, who’s just returned to the matchday squad for the first time in nine months after recovering from his anterior cruciate ligament injury.
“He has players in his position that are playing really well. That is my responsibility. That is my decision, but I think he’s ready to start going to games,” said Amorim of the Argentine.
However, after Neville’s scathing review of Shaw’s display, the United boss might be thinking twice about keeping him in the side for Sunday’s trip to face Crystal Palace – especially now that Martinez is back at his disposal.
“Shaw is ambling forward. It has been bugging me for the last 20 minutes, and now I’m just going to say it,” Neville pointed out on Sky Sports’ match coverage.
“He is ambling. Look at him. You can’t do that. That is a waste of time. Honestly, it’s a waste of time. It’s not conning anyone.”
Garry what game were you seeing or were you hallucinating? Ruben Amorim did not make a single tweek when it was 11 versus 11, 11 versus 10, when 1 goal down and when Everton defence was able to repulse all our attacks and you are blaming Shaw for that.
Marenio was right about shaw years ago when he said you could not depend him and he is worse now he has got to be dropped along with dorgu
Amorim would do well to search out Sir Alex being interviewed by GN, on the site formerly known as Twitter. The great man talks about the need to take risks, never more so when losing at home. He’s scathing about the lack of changing tactics, and advocates throwing players forward.
As ever, he speaks for all of us.
That is to say, there’s a clip on X – I don’t know origin.