Man Utd news: Ruben Amorim delivers reality check and offers Viktor Gyokeres prediction

Ruben Amorim accepts his Manchester United squad volition request to play successful a antithetic mode to his Sporting Lisbon outfit arsenic helium discussed the aboriginal prospects of Viktor Gyokeres

Manchester United fans had their excitement wetted aft seeing Ruben Amorim's Sporting Lisbon batter Manchester City.

The Portuguese outfit stunned the Premier League champions to grounds a 4-1 win, but the incoming brag astatine Old Trafford admits his caller broadside volition not beryllium capable to play similar that going forward. Viktor Gyokeres made headlines with a hat-trick amid reports helium volition beryllium targeted sooner alternatively than later.

United themselves person a Europa League clash to hole for arsenic they oculus a archetypal triumph successful Europe astatine the 4th effort erstwhile they instrumentality connected PAOK. Ruud van Nistelrooy is the antheral presently astatine the helm with 2 much games near until Amorim officially comes connected board.

Here's the latest from the reddish broadside of Manchester.

Incoming Man Utd brag 'can't play' similar Sporting

Amorim has confessed the Manchester squad which volition soon go his "cannot play the mode we play" aft masterminding Sporting's superb triumph implicit City successful the Champions League. Despite the awesome scoreline Sporting enjoyed conscionable 27 percent possession against City, who dominated the first-half.

Amorim accepts helium "cannot beryllium truthful defensive" astatine United with the Red Devils expected to beryllium connected the beforehand ft successful games - which wasn't the lawsuit for Sporting connected Tuesday. Speaking aft the game, Amorim said: "This does not mean thing specifically and it is misleading

"We volition not beryllium capable to transport 1 world to another. United cannot play the mode we play, they cannot beryllium truthful defensive. We volition person to adapt. Of people it's bully to bushed City. But I'll beryllium surviving successful a antithetic world successful Manchester."

Amorim hints astatine Gyokeres determination this summer

Amorim has insisted helium won't determination for Sporting prima striker Gyokeres this play - but adjacent summertime whitethorn good beryllium a antithetic story. Gyokeres has scored 66 goals successful 67 games nether Amorim astatine Sporting, having joined the nine from Coventry City backmost successful 2023.

The Portuguese brag was quizzed astir Gyokeres' aboriginal aft helium scored a hat-trick against City successful the Champions League and hinted that he'll apt determination connected erstwhile the play ends..

"If I commencement joking astir this Gyokeres concern I'll get successful trouble," Amorim was quoted arsenic saying by Portuguese outlet A Bola. "This is my city, this is my country, truthful I'll respect it. Viktor has to enactment until the extremity of the play and past his beingness volition astir apt spell determination else."

Wright convinced Zirkzee volition conflict to play

Ian Wright is adamant that Joshua Zirkzee won't play nether Amorim - simply due to the fact that the striker isn't bully enough. Zirkzee, 23, was signed for £36million from Bologna successful the summertime but has scored conscionable 1 extremity successful 14 games for the Red Devils.

It was reported earlier this week that the Dutch striker - who is said to person arrived astatine the nine a chromatic overweight - was not a subordinate that Erik 10 Hag really wanted to motion and was alternatively idiosyncratic who was identified by the club's caller shot hierarchy.

Speaking connected the Wrighty’s House, the erstwhile Arsenal prima said: "Do you cognize something? When I look astatine the strikers astatine Manchester United, I look astatine [Rasmus] Hojlund and Zirkzee. Going forward, arsenic a United subordinate to instrumentality the nine to the level they request to beryllium – top-four, Champions League, rubric challengers – I can’t spot successful immoderate enactment Zirkzee making it from what I’ve seen truthful far.

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