‘tough, Really Tough’: Ruben Amorim On His First Year At Manchester United

Ruben Amorim has admitted his first twelvemonth astatine Manchester United has been “really tough” but is clear he wants to beryllium caput coach for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.

Amorim was confirmed arsenic Erik 10 Hag’s successor connected 1 November and officially took complete 10 days later. The Portuguese has won 21 and mislaid 19 of his 52 games – a 40% triumph rate.

“It was a journey, a large journey,” he said of his first 12 months. “It was tough, really tough, bully moments and bad moments. I learned a batch that is really important. I recovered retired that moreover successful my little moments I tin instrumentality pinch nan things I judge and that is simply a bully point for anyone to understand. Today nan reply is different from 3 weeks ago. One of nan biggest honours of my life to beryllium present and I want to proceed present for galore years.”

United person won their past 3 Premier League matches, against Sunderland, Liverpool and Brighton. On Saturday they recreation to Nottingham Forest, led by Sean Dyche, who will return complaint of his 3rd game.

In August erstwhile not moving arsenic a head Dyche claimed he could execute amended pinch United’s squad than Amorim. “I stake I could triumph much games pinch that squad playing a 4-4-2,” he said.

Amorim shrugged disconnected Dyche’s comments. “Maybe it’s existent that if we play 4-4-2 we triumph much games,” he said. “But I ever said that I person a measurement of playing that is going to return a while, but successful nan early it’s going to beryllium better. Then I tin look astatine Sean Dyche arsenic a head and past arsenic a pundit. If you are a pundit and you don’t opportunity very beardown things, I don’t want to watch you. So I tin understand that it’s a wholly different job. I cognize that Sean Dyche is really smart and he knows really to play nan game.

“He besides understands that 1 point is erstwhile we are seeing nan crippled and talking astir nan game, nan different point is to coach a team. I person thing to say, I conscionable want to triumph nan adjacent game.”

Lisandro Martínez, who has not played since sustaining a knee wounded successful February, has resumed afloat training. Amorim said: “He wants to spell to [play in] this 1 [Forest] – he’s not going to. He’s done training pinch america but we changed immoderate things successful nan exercises, truthful slow he’s going to get better.” Amorim said he was not definite whether Harry Maguire would beryllium fit.