Ruben Amorim reveals Sir Alex Ferguson phonecalls in bid to solve Man Utd crisis

Manchester United brag Ruben Amorim has been speaking with Sir Alex Ferguson amid the Red Devils' ongoing struggles this season, with the Portuguese picking up six wins from his archetypal 15 games

Ruben Amorim has revealed helium has spoken with Sir Alex Ferguson "several times" arsenic helium attempts to crook things astir astatine Manchester United.

Amorim has picked up conscionable six wins from his archetypal 15 games successful complaint of the Red Devils and helium claimed aft their latest defeat to Brighton connected Sunday that his broadside were possibly the worst successful the club's history.

Legendary United brag Ferguson, who won much than 30 trophies during his clip astatine Old Trafford, attended the Brighton crippled arsenic the nine paid tribute to their erstwhile striker Denis Law aft helium passed distant astatine the property of 84 and helium had a lengthy chat with Amorim up of the game.

And Amorim has since revealed that helium and Ferguson person besides spoke implicit the telephone astir United's struggles, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: "I talk with Sir Alex respective times. I effort to telephone him to support being positive.

"It's truly bully due to the fact that I consciousness the past of the nine but it's truly hard, arsenic they did specified a bully job, to beryllium the feline starring the squad astatine this moment. It's truly hard but we person to believe."

United are owed to big Rangers successful the Europa League connected Thursday and, speaking up of that game, Amorim admitted helium had made a mistake successful describing his squad arsenic possibly the worst successful nine history.

"I didn't deliberation and I americium a young guy, sometimes I marque a mistake," helium said astatine his pre-match property conference. "That's wherefore I bash not speech aft the game. This game, I needed to speech and possibly it was a mistake and I get much tense and spell to the property league truly tense and you accidental things you shouldn't say.

"That is it and sometimes you are a young feline who makes mistakes, you improve. I bash not committedness you I won't bash it again... I bash not know! I volition effort to improve.

"The astir important happening is to deliberation we tin amended close distant successful the adjacent lucifer and past it is similar that! Football tin alteration similar that and we tin person a batch of ideas and reasoning that things could get worse for that crushed and different crushed but ideate time we bash not endure a extremity successful the opening and we score, we play good and past we spell to Fulham and we tin triumph it.

"That volition alteration and adjacent the situation here, everything. I don't cognize and what I tin consciousness from the archetypal time is that erstwhile I get and I spot it that changing things, we are going to endure and it was truly clear. But successful this infinitesimal I don't privation to accidental it is going to instrumentality a batch of time, it is getting truly hard."

The authoritative programme screen for Manchester United v Rangers has been revealed, and it is paying tribute to 'The King', Denis Law. As good arsenic the cover, determination volition beryllium peculiar features wrong dedicated to the Manchester United and Scotland legend. Copies volition beryllium disposable astatine Old Trafford connected matchday or online .