Jamie Carragher tells Ruben Amorim he has 'relatively easy' job at Man Utd

Ruben Amorim is poised to win Erik 10 Hag astatine Manchester United, wherever helium faces a immense task to crook astir the fortunes of a nine which is under-performing connected the pitch

Ruben Amorim should find it beauteous straightforward to marque a affirmative interaction astatine Manchester United, according to Jamie Carragher.

Amorim is poised to articulation United connected a declaration until June 2027 aft agreeing to a woody worthy £6million per season. The 39-year-old Sporting Lisbon brag volition articulation aft the November planetary break, leaving Ruud van Nistelrooy to proceed arsenic interim manager successful the short-term.

United volition wage Sporting £8.3m to get their archetypal prime to regenerate Erik 10 Hag, who was sacked connected Monday successful the aftermath of the decision astatine West Ham. Amorim is acceptable to bring his full coaching unit with him from Sporting and volition purpose to deed the crushed moving successful his archetypal match, against Ipswich connected November 24.

Former Liverpool defender Carragher is backing Amorim to bask the classical ‘new manager bounce’ by picking up wins implicit the festive period. But helium has pointed retired that Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ten Hag each did the same, and won trophies, earlier bigger issues presented themselves.

“When helium yet arrives astatine Old Trafford, Ruben Amorim has a basic, instant remit; marque Manchester United vie for honours again. That should not beryllium particularly daunting,” Carragher wrote for The Telegraph.

Carragher past noted that Van Gaal won the FA Cup, Mourinho lifted the Carabao Cup and the Europa League, Solskjaer finished runner-up successful Europa League and Premier League and that Ten Hag won the Carabao Cup and FA Cup. He believes that Amorim has to crook United into genuine Premier League contenders to subordinate the inclination and beryllium considered a success.

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“With respect to each of them, starring United backmost to that level is not the top situation successful shot for a competent coach,” Carragher wrote. “The resources are available, the location stadium ought to beryllium 1 of the astir hard successful the world to visit, and nary substance however overmuch the nine are struggling, United volition ever beryllium an charismatic destination to apical players for status, sporting and fiscal reasons.

“Van Gaal, Mourinho, Solskjaer and Ten Hag excelled making the comparatively casual archetypal measurement of being overmuch amended than what instantly preceded them. It was the adjacent measurement – the arduous situation of creating a squad susceptible of winning the Premier League – which was beyond them.”

Amorim has won 2 league titles and 2 cups with Sporting and boasts a 70 per cent triumph ratio with the Portuguese giants. He has antecedently attracted involvement from Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City, and held talks with West Ham implicit the summertime earlier they appointed Julen Lopetegui.

He is excited astir investigating himself successful the Premier League. He said: “I deliberation that successful everyone’s beingness determination are times erstwhile we’re doing truly well, but past we privation thing more, possibly to beryllium thing more.”

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