Ruben Amorim reveals true feelings on Man Utd job ahead of his Old Trafford bow

New Manchester United caput manager Ruben Amorim has been getting acquainted with his caller colleagues and surroundings this week aft yet leaving Sporting Lisbon

Ruben Amorim says helium feels "relaxed" aft seeing Old Trafford for the archetypal clip since officially starting arsenic Manchester United's caller boss.

Amorim, whose archetypal crippled arsenic United brag is astatine Ipswich a week connected Sunday, was fixed a guided circuit of Old Trafford and the facilities determination earlier this week.

Asked however helium felt astir lasting wrong Old Trafford arsenic United boss, Amorim said: "You ticker connected TV and you cognize that it's large and it's impressive, but erstwhile you are here, you tin consciousness it.

"You tin consciousness the history. I'm really, truly arrogant to beryllium a Manchester United coach. It's amazing, it's a existent honour."

Amorim, speaking to MUTV, said: "I consciousness precise relaxed, possibly due to the fact that it's not crippled day. When we person a crippled I'm a antithetic guy. But I truly don't consciousness the weight.

"I'm truly excited and I'm rather relaxed. I deliberation I'm wherever I'm expected to be. That's the feeling."

It was confirmed earlier this period that the highly sought-after Portuguese manager would beryllium appointed arsenic Erik 10 Hag's imperishable successor aft the erstwhile Ajax main was sacked backmost successful October.

Amorim's estimation has soared implicit the past 12 months owed to his awesome assemblage of enactment astatine Sporting Lisbon and United skipper Bruno Fernandes is excited to get to enactment nether his compatriot successful the coming weeks.

When helium was asked for his thoughts connected the appointment, Fernandes said: “Obviously for me, what stands retired is the transportation helium has with the players. You spot it astatine the extremity of the crippled erstwhile a manager is going from your nine successful the mediate of the play and with each the things that they person inactive to win.

“And you spot the mode they accidental goodbye to him, the mode they feel, they marque him consciousness portion of the squad and however they dainty him. So it shows that this is simply a large quality and he's idiosyncratic that gives his each to the players.

“He's besides a truly astute manager who has done truly bully things for Sporting tactically. It’s truly good, what I've seen from the games for Sporting. But evidently arsenic we ever speak, you can't bring oregon alteration what helium has done astatine Sporting into here, due to the fact that you person antithetic players, you person antithetic ways of play and everything.

“I'm beauteous definite that the thought of shot helium has, autarkic of the mode helium wants to play, is going to beryllium a bully 1 and it's going to bring america success. That's what I anticipation and I'm beauteous definite that is what helium hopes, too.”

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