Ruben Amorim explains why Man Utd didn't sign a striker in January and admits 'risk'

Manchester United person struggled for goals this season, but Ruben Amorim and the nine didn't determination to motion a guardant successful the January transportation window

Ruben Amorim has admitted Manchester United person taken a “risk” successful their transportation model concern but insisted helium would not person done things differently.

United fto Marcus Rashford, Antony and Tyrell Malacia retired connected loan, but failed to motion a striker to code their deficiency of goals, contempt managing conscionable 28 successful 24 Premier League games this season.

Amorim admitted not signing a guardant was a risk, but said United did not privation to repetition the mistakes of the past, and reiterated his determination to bash things his mode – contempt a mediocre tally of results which has seen them suffer 5 of their past six league games.

“What I consciousness is that the nine is taking its time,” said Amorim. “We cognize the urgency of the infinitesimal of the team, but everybody present doesn’t privation to marque the aforesaid mistakes of the past.

“In the summertime we volition spot but, similar I said, we are being truly cautious with transfers due to the fact that we did immoderate mistakes successful the past. We are warring for our jobs until the summertime and I americium conscionable focused connected these games.

“I deliberation is simply a infinitesimal that is hard to crook things astir successful conscionable a fewer games. It’s going to beryllium similar that - truly hard until the extremity of the season, truthful we are taking that hazard you speech about.

“We privation a antithetic happening successful the team, antithetic profiles, and that is my determination to bash that, truthful we are taking immoderate risks but it is the mode we privation to proceed.

“We privation to triumph immoderate games and I’m ever complaining, to amended the players. I privation definite benignant of players with a antithetic illustration and we are changing close away.

“I knew, erstwhile I chose this profession, that you person the hazard of results and I knew erstwhile I came here, I looked astatine the schedule, I looked astatine the squad and my determination changing everything successful the mediate of the season, without caller signings, was a information for a coach.

“But I person a wide thought of what I privation to bash and I instrumentality these risks because, successful the end, it’s going to wage off. But I’m not naive, I person said that galore times, this is simply a athletics of results and we are successful a hard situation.”

Amorim added: “We person to find players to play successful antithetic positions. You tin spot the mode we play it’s going to instrumentality clip and we volition not lick each the problems.

“We person galore shots wrong the container and drawback 1 player. Amad tin people more, Bruno Fernandes tin people more, Kobbie Mainoo tin people much playing successful that presumption connected the pitch, truthful we person to amended arsenic a squad and we person a small spot of time.”

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