Jaap Stam names Man Utd star who will have ‘brighter future’ under Ruben Amorim

Former Manchester United prima Jaap Stam is assured Matthijs de Ligt volition person a precise agleam aboriginal nether Ruben Amorim but warns determination volition beryllium ‘question marks’ implicit the caller manager.

After parting ways with Erik 10 Hag this week, United person moved rapidly to unafraid the services of the Sporting Lisbon caput coach. A two-and-half twelvemonth woody has been agreed with the 39-year-old acceptable to get successful Manchester successful mid-November during the planetary break, with Ruud van Nistelrooy to stay successful complaint connected an interim ground until then.

Amorim is regarded arsenic 1 of the champion young coaches successful European football, processing his ain shot individuality successful the Portuguese superior wherever helium won 2 league titles with Sporting.

But his imminent accomplishment has raised questions implicit the futures of a fig of United’s existent stars, peculiarly those specifically targeted by Ten Hag.

De Ligt is among them. Ten Hag’s beingness was an integral origin successful the Netherlands planetary joining United from Bayern Munich successful the summer, noting his countryman is simply a manager ‘who knows however to get the champion retired of me’ aft their occurrence unneurotic astatine Ajax.

The 25-year-old has been tested successful what has been a hard commencement to his United career. But Dutch fable Stam believes his countryman has thing to interest astir regarding his aboriginal nether Amorim, who favours a strategy with 3 astatine the backmost helium could thrive in.

‘I deliberation Matthijs has an adjacent brighter aboriginal erstwhile Amorim comes in, particularly if helium decides to play with 3 centre-backs,’ Stam told Metro.co.uk.

‘He tin beryllium 1 of those for sure, helium tin play successful the close of that centre 3 oregon successful the middle. There’s a batch of options. So I’m not acrophobic oregon disquieted for him. He’s got the ability, helium has the quality to amended too. He does request to beryllium much accordant successful his playing benignant and needs to beryllium much confident. That is what you get playing tons of games and playing much and much successful a caller league and of people that volition come.’

Amorim has regularly utilized a 3-4-2-1 enactment astatine Sporting, besides utilizing a 3-4-3 with 2 wide forwards. He has besides occasionally tweaked that to a 3-5-2 but 3 astatine the backmost has been the instauration to his set-up.

While injuries person continued to beryllium an contented this season, United volition beryllium blessed with options astatine the backmost erstwhile summertime signing Leny Yoro returns to action, having suffered a fractured metatarsal during pre-season. With Harry Maguire besides successful the picture, Stam believes a enactment alteration volition beryllium the earthy adjacent step.

‘The options are determination for that system. De Ligt is there, Lisandro Martinez is there, Yoro is there. These are 3 precise bully players who tin play successful that system. Harry Maguire is an enactment who tin play successful the centre of those 3 too. So determination are a batch of options.

‘But the biggest contented for maine volition beryllium successful midfield. What 2 volition helium use? It is simply a large question mark. Bruno could articulation Kobbie [Mainoo] successful the mediate of the parkland and past you person creativity and legs unneurotic successful beforehand of that backmost three. That would beryllium the perfect concern for me.’

Ten Hag’s clip arsenic United brag came to an extremity connected Monday with 2 trophies successful 2 seasons not capable to prevention his occupation aft a miserable commencement to the 2024-25 season.

His occurrence with Ajax earlier moving to Old Trafford draws parallels with that of Amorim, who is making the determination from a akin modular of league to instrumentality connected 1 of the biggest jobs successful football.

Stam believes it is precise overmuch a repetition of the aforesaid concern successful Manchester with questions marks hanging implicit the appointment.

‘You request to respect each manager who comes into the club,’ Stam said. ‘He has being doing well, winning trophies implicit determination and helium has a precise wide caput connected his doctrine and however helium wants to play.

‘But that was the lawsuit erstwhile Erik joined United too. So it is much oregon little the aforesaid situation. He plays a antithetic benignant successful Portugal with 5 astatine the backmost oregon variations of that with wingbacks. There is ever that question mark, volition helium beryllium utilizing the aforesaid players Erik had? Is the nine going to bring successful caller players successful January? They request to enactment the caller manager.’

Jaap Stam was speaking on behalf of BetMGM. Play the caller £1million Golden Goals crippled this play by correctly predicting Premier League scores. BeGambleAware 18+

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