Ruben Amorim fires warning to five Man Utd players in first interview as manager

Ruben Amorim has sent a informing to 5 Manchester United players successful his archetypal interrogation since replacing Erik 10 Hag arsenic the club’s caller manager.

Amorim sat down with MUTV up of his opening crippled successful complaint of the squad arsenic the Red Devils question down to Ipswich Town adjacent Sunday connected November 24.

In a wide-ranging discussion, Amorim spoke astir his footballing philosophy, revealed his cardinal priorities and explained wherefore United’s Portuguese fable Cristiano Ronaldo has nicknamed the erstwhile Sporting Lisbon brag ‘the poet’.

At 1 point, Amorim was asked straight astir 5 United stars – Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho, Amad Diallo, Rasmus Hojlund and Leny Yoro – with the interviewer pointing retired the ‘excitement’ astatine the nine implicit their corporate potential.

Amorim responded by playing down speech of United being a semipermanent task and warned the 5 youngsters that their property cannot beryllium utilized an an excuse for mediocre performances.

‘I don’t privation to accidental that we request clip due to the fact that we are a young team,’ Amorim said. ‘They are prepared. They are prepared to header with the demands of playing for Manchester United. They should beryllium due to the fact that they are here.

‘We cognize it volition instrumentality clip and we volition effort to triumph clip with the games. But we person to commencement since time 1 without fear, without reasoning that they are not utilized to playing similar this. This is not connected my mind. They volition commencement connected the archetypal time with our idea, nary substance what. That’s the goal.’

Quizzed astir his footballing doctrine and cardinal priorities, Amorim added: ‘In 1 word: team. The squad is the astir important happening for me. And if you enactment arsenic a team, past the endowment individually is going to shine.

‘But if I person to explicate the value of everything, it is the character, the mode we fight, the mode we play, and we indispensable person an identity. If our players instrumentality the shirt, they volition cognize that it is the Manchester United team.

‘Everybody thinks the same, moving back, playing, enjoying. This is what drives me. I tin accidental the fashionable thing, which is to win. Everybody wants to triumph and I privation to triumph with my players, with the fans, but with an individuality and 1 idea, that is the happening that I americium focused connected each the time.

‘We cognize that we request time, but we person to triumph time. To triumph clip is to triumph games. But the astir important happening for maine is identity. So since time 1 we volition commencement with our identity. Of people we are going to hole the games, but we volition absorption a batch successful our crippled model.

‘How to play, however to press, these tiny things, tiny details. You cannot spell 100% connected each item due to the fact that it volition beryllium confusing for the players. So if I person to accidental 1 thing, my main goal, my archetypal goal, is identity.’

Asked to explicate wherefore Ronaldo calls him ‘the poet’, Amorim explained: ‘It’s similar a comic happening due to the fact that erstwhile I speak, I deliberation I talk from the heart. I deliberation the radical consciousness that it was thing conscionable to person fun.’

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