Ruben Amorim drops hint over Manchester United transfer plan: 'I'll get in trouble'

Sporting striker Viktor Gyokeres has been linked with a imaginable determination to Manchester United and Ruben Amorim, who volition instrumentality complaint astatine Old Trafford this month, has adressed his future

Incoming Manchester United brag Ruben Amorim insists helium won't determination for Sporting Lisbon's prima striker Viktor Gyokeres this play - but adjacent summertime whitethorn good beryllium a antithetic story.

Amorim is leaving Sporting to take complaint of United connected November 11 and Gyokeres has been linked with a imaginable determination to Old Trafford. Gyokeres has scored 66 goals successful 67 games nether Amorim astatine Sporting, having joined the nine from Coventry City backmost successful 2023.

And the 26-year-old starred successful Amorim's last location crippled successful charge, netting a hat-trick arsenic Sporting thrashed Manchester City 4-1 successful the Champions League. And Amorim was quizzed astir Gyokeres' aboriginal aft the match.

"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."

Gyokeres, meanwhile, paid tribute to Amorim aft the game.

"We volition miss him a lot," Gyokeres told UEFA. " We've done astonishing things together. We volition miss him and the different guys successful the unit who volition leave. We person to look guardant and onslaught the adjacent situation up of us. It's ever bully to people and adjacent amended to people a hat-trick. Most important was to triumph the crippled truthful it was a superb nighttime for us. We knew it was going to beryllium pugnacious and we didn't commencement disconnected well.

"We knew they would springiness america abstraction and we could person scored much than 4 to beryllium fair. They could person scored much arsenic well. You request to rise your level erstwhile you play amended opponents. I tried to support doing what I've been doing."

Amorim was keen to downplay the value of the victory.

"What I tin archer you is that this [result] doesn't mean thing successful peculiar - don't instrumentality thing from this," helium insisted. "We cannot transport 1 world to another. Manchester United cannot play the mode we play and we volition person to adapt. It's misleading, we were precise fortunate today, but the feeling with my players, the mode they observe with the fans was precise special.

"I instrumentality this with maine but erstwhile I get to the Premier League it is simply a antithetic world, antithetic pressure. It volition beryllium fun, precise fun, and I'm acceptable for the challenge."

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