'control Freak' Sesko Should Ignore Critics - Amorim

Manchester United caput coach Ruben Amorim accepts £73.7m striker Benjamin Sesko has struggled astatine times successful his first fewer weeks astatine nan nine but urged him not to return disapproval from nine legends personally.

Sesko has scored 2 goals successful his first 11 appearances for United.

He past recovered nan nett against Sunderland astatine Old Trafford connected 4 October and his capacity astatine Nottingham Forest past play prompted erstwhile skipper Gary Neville to state nan Slovenia world was "miles disconnected it" compared to chap caller arrivals Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo.

Amorim does judge location is constituent to Neville's comments. However, he besides feels they deficiency nan discourse of Sesko moving to a caller convention astatine nan property of 22, having only spent 2 seasons successful nan Bundesliga pinch RB Leipzig.

"I'm relaxed," he said. "[But] he's not relaxed.

"I understand really things are successful shot and he's going to struggle. That is normal. He has nary acquisition here.

"The first effect [is] erstwhile everyone says that you are truthful good, you are nan adjacent large point and you perceive that astir Sesko.

"Then you travel to 1 nine that is nan hardest club. If you don't execute each week, you are going to perceive a batch of things from nine legends, from pundits, from nan media - and sometimes they are right.

"Of course, cipher likes to perceive but he struggled a small bit, and that is simply a fact. So, let's clasp that.

"It is difficult to perceive but it's not personal. It's an sentiment that is going to alteration successful 3 weeks. Everything that is existent today, successful 3 weeks, could beryllium a lie."

Sesko is understood to beryllium spending immense amounts of clip astatine United's Carrington training crushed arsenic he gets an knowing of nan capacity levels he is delivering compared to those he is required to meet.

He often arrives much than 90 minutes earlier than nan normal gathering clip of 09:45 and does not time off until 16:00, agelong aft astir of his team-mates.

United sources stay assured they made nan correct determination to motion Sesko, while astatine nan aforesaid clip sending Rasmus Hojlund connected indebtedness to Napoli, moreover though nan Dane has scored 4 times successful 9 appearances for nan Italian champions.

"Ben is simply a young kid, a power freak," said Amorim.

"He wants to power everything - and he's not going to power everything.

"He has much imaginable than I was reasoning [but] we request to understand really he likes to play and besides to put successful our ideas.

"I'm rather relaxed pinch that. He is going to beryllium our striker for nan agelong word but he's going to person these struggles and these bumps during nan ride. That is simply a normal point successful football."

United meet Tottenham for nan first clip since Brennan Johnson's extremity proved decisive erstwhile Spurs hit them successful nan Europa League last successful May.

Yet, contempt lifting nan trophy successful Bilbao and securing a spot successful this season's Champions League, Tottenham sacked coach Ange Postecoglou, who has besides since mislaid his occupation astatine Nottingham Forest.

Amorim has conscionable completed a twelvemonth successful nan United occupation and nan lucifer successful northbound London will beryllium his 38th Premier League crippled successful charge, a afloat play of fixtures that has resulted successful conscionable 12 victories.

Yet number proprietor Sir Jim Ratcliffe precocious said it whitethorn return Amorim up to 3 years to afloat instrumentality his style and nan 40-year-old erstwhile Sporting coach retains nan afloat backing of nan board.

"I said already, I'm really fortunate to beryllium here," said nan Portuguese.

"If you spot nan game, I deliberation we merit to triumph but it doesn't matter. It's difficult to spot a coach that wins a European cup spell distant and nan different feline stays.

"But sometimes it's possibly [thinking] successful nan early to triumph much important titles. That's, I think, what Manchester United is thinking. Let's springiness clip to nan coach and spot what's happening."