Ex-Jurgen Klopp coach admits Ruben Amorim's Man Utd plans could be bad for Liverpool

Ruben Amorim's archetypal crippled arsenic Manchester United manager is close astir the corner, and a erstwhile adjunct to Jurgen Klopp reckons his assignment volition beryllium atrocious quality for Liverpool

A erstwhile Jurgen Klopp adjunct reckons Ruben Amorim and Manchester United are a "perfect" acceptable and is tipping the erstwhile Sporting CP manager to bring the glory days backmost to Old Trafford.

Vitor Matos, who spent 5 years connected Klopp's unit astatine Liverpool, is presently No. 2 astatine Red Bull Salzburg, working under different of Klopp's erstwhile assistants, Pep Lijnders. Speaking to O JOGO, the 36-year-old waxed lyrical astir Amorim's grounds successful Portugal and said helium expected the manager to execute the aforesaid occurrence astatine United.

"I deliberation Ruben is cleanable for the Premier League and for United," Matos said. "I judge that, conscionable arsenic helium did astatine Sporting, he'll make a beardown crippled identity, he'll bring freshness to the Premier League and he'll marque United thirsty for titles. He tin make a semipermanent task that volition bring the stableness that the nine and its fans are utilized to."

Amorim volition marque his Premier League bow connected Sunday erstwhile the Red Devils instrumentality connected Ipswich Town astatine Portman Road. The 39-year-old has plentifulness of enactment to do, peculiarly with the nine languishing successful the bottommost fractional of the table, having won conscionable 4 of their opening 11 league matches.

His spell astatine Sporting has fixed United supporters each crushed to beryllium excited astir his arrival. In conscionable implicit 4 years, helium led the squad to 2 Primeira Liga titles and 2 Taca da Liga - Portugal's equivalent of the League Cup - titles. He besides established Sporting arsenic a tactically-intricate and defensively-robust broadside with a wide on-field doctrine - thing United person been lacking for years.

This season, Amorim not lone masterminded a sumptuous triumph implicit Manchester City successful the Champions League, but besides stepped distant with a 100 per cent grounds successful the league aft Sporting stitched 11 successive wins unneurotic to commencement the 2024/25 campaign.

Over successful Austria, Matos and Lijnders haven't rather deed the crushed running. Salzburg, who finished 2nd successful the Austrian Bundesliga past season, person won conscionable 5 of their opening 11 league games and are presently 4th successful the table.

They do, however, person 2 games successful manus connected their rivals, and winning some could spot them leapfrog Austria Wien into third. It marks Lijnders' 2nd foray into absorption pursuing his unsuccessful four-month stint successful complaint of Dutch broadside NEC successful 2018.

Matos says he's keen to travel successful Lijnders' footsteps and onshore a apical occupation 1 day, but insists he's afloat focused connected Salzburg for the clip being. "That [becoming a manager] is an ambition that I privation to marque a reality," helium said.

"I've ne'er hidden the information that I person this ambition, but I privation the discourse and the infinitesimal to dictate this possibility. At the moment, I'm surviving this Salzburg task 1 100 per cent and I'm precise blessed and grateful to beryllium with Pep, who, isolated from the large relationship I person with him, is simply a notation constituent for maine successful nonrecreational terms. I couldn't spot myself surviving this escapade without him."

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