Wayne Rooney claims Ruben Amorim would 'get slaughtered' for Liverpool decision Arne Slot made

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Wayne Rooney has slammed Arne Slot for his decisions at Liverpool, claiming Ruben Amorimwould be “slaughtered” for doing the same.

The Dutchman led the Reds to the Premier Leaguetitle last term but they have not matched the performances levels this campaign.

Despite leading the way in the league, Liverpool come into this weekend’s clash with Chelsea off the back of consecutive defeats to Crystal Palace and Galatasaray.

The Reds slumped to a 1-0 loss in Turkey after a number of surprising team selections.

Midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai - who conceded the winning penalty - started at right-back, while Jeremie Frimpong was named as a winger.

While Slot clearly has enormous credit in the bank at Anfield, Manchester United icon and former Everton striker Rooney has criticised him and claimed that Amorim would be receiving huge criticism had he made similar mistakes.

Speaking on the BBC’s Wayne Rooney Show, he said: “I thought they [Liverpool] were really poor. I think the worry for me would be, they’re losing the game and it looked like even with still quite a bit of time left to go, he just put every attacking player on the pitch and said like ‘go and figure it out’.

“And then, it could have got a lot worse for Liverpool during the game because with the amount of times they gave the ball away at the back and losing it and getting broke on and Alisson getting injured.

“I think when you win the league like Arne Slot did with Liverpool last season then sometimes some of the decisions you make get overlooked.

“I think his decision to play a midfield player at right-back and a right-back and right-wing. For instance, if that was Amorim at Manchester United, he’d get absolutely slaughtered.”

Slot explained the reason for reshuffling his side in Turkey and claimed that a lack of a proper pre-season for some of his players had forced his hand.

Rooney said: “What you see is, and I think I explained this many times, is that there are a few players from us that missed pre-season so you simply cannot play them every single [game].

“Well, you can but then that could become a risk of players becoming injured.

“We have seen this more and more because the demands go up more and more, and if the demands go up you have to prepare players for these demands.

“That means that it is not always that I want to rotate but sometimes I need to because a player is not ready to play three times 90 minutes in seven or eight days.

“I like my squad so much, but we don’t have 25 or 26 [players], so if we end up with two, three or four injuries, 15 or 16 players, where Rio and Trey are two of these 15 or 16, then need to play almost all the minutes and then things can become complicated.”

“But this is a decision we have made together, I completely believe in this, because if you have 25 [players] it’s very hard to manage your squad.

“But as a result of that, with Hugo, Alex, Conor and Mac Allister not having the pre-season a player should have, that also results in the fact that I cannot play them every time.”

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