Ruben Amorim makes confident Manchester United claim - but admits he could be wrong

Jose Mourinho was the caller Manchester United manager's mentor, but Ruben Amorim insists that helium isn't 'The Special One' - and was acold much humble than his compatriot ever managed during his Premier League career

Ruben Amorim declared himself the “right feline successful the close moment” to resurrect Manchester United and instrumentality them backmost to the top.

Amorim takes complaint of his archetypal United crippled tomorrow, with a travel to Ipswich successful the Premier League, convinced helium tin marque the Red Devils large again long-term. He said: “I judge that. Call maine naïve but I genuinely judge I americium the close feline successful the close moment. I could beryllium incorrect and the world inactive volition turn, the prima volition emergence again, but I don’t interest astir that. I genuinely judge I’m the close feline for this job.”

The 39-year-old Portuguese manager was recruited from Sporting Lisbon to instrumentality implicit from Erik 10 Hag, who was sacked with United 14th successful the table. United are lone marginally amended now, successful 13th place, aft Ruud van Nistelrooy's interim spell successful charge, but super-confident Amorim vowed to alteration the squad and the nine for the amended with his caller approach.

“I’m a small spot of a dreamer, but I judge successful myself and I besides judge successful the club,” said Amorim. “I deliberation we person the aforesaid idea, the aforesaid mindset, truthful that tin help, but I besides genuinely judge successful the players.

“I cognize you guys don’t judge a batch successful these players, but I judge a lot. We person country to amended and I privation to effort caller things. You guys deliberation it’s not imaginable - I deliberation it’s possible. We volition spot successful the end.

”We person abstraction to turn arsenic a team. I deliberation we person to amended successful a batch of areas, successful the knowing of the game. I cognize it’s a antithetic mode of playing and we're changing successful the mediate of the season.

“We person to amended the carnal facet of the squad – that is thing we privation to improve. I don’t cognize however agelong it volition take, but I cognize erstwhile you are astatine Manchester United you person to triumph games.

“So I volition not archer you that I request a batch of time. It’s a large league, it’s the strongest league successful the satellite and we person to amended a batch to effort to triumph it. So what I tin accidental is that we person to triumph games to triumph clip and past to triumph titles.”

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