Ruben Amorim sends message to Sporting Lisbon successor after leaving for Man Utd

Sporting Lisbon person embarked connected their ain caller epoch aft waving a bittersweet farewell to palmy brag Ruben Amorim aft his assignment by Manchester United and replacing him with Joao Pereira

Ruben Amorim has sent his successor Joao Pereira a bully luck connection up of Sporting Lisbon’s showdown with Arsenal.

Sporting’s caller brag Pereira revealed helium called Amorim up of his archetypal crippled successful complaint of Manchester United and the speech turned into a love-in. Pereira said: “I spoke with Ruben earlier his debut crippled with Manchester United and helium wished maine bully luck. He wished maine to person a bully vocation arsenic a coach.

“I answered: ‘If I tin bash a batch of the things that you person done here, past it’s not a atrocious start.’ He was ever unfastened and helium ever opened the doorway for america to ticker him.

“It is simply a large situation but I enactment unit connected myself each time and I situation myself successful each grooming league and successful each match.”

United brag Amorim has near large shoes to capable successful Lisbon arsenic helium led Sporting to large occurrence and acceptable precocious standards successful the Champions League, not slightest by thumping Manchester City 4-1 successful their past European clash against English opposition. Pereira is simply a erstwhile Sporting and Portugal afloat backmost - helium won 40 caps - and is highly regarded astatine the nine aft antecedently being successful complaint of the reserve team.

It is simply a large measurement up but his archetypal crippled successful complaint was a 6-0 thrashing of Amarante successful the Portuguese Cup. However, Pereira expects a antithetic trial against Arsenal and insists helium volition not beryllium overawed. Pereira added: “I’m precise comfy to beryllium here, it’s a large pleasance to bash the occupation and we besides cognize that Arsenal are connected a antithetic level with each owed respect to Amarante.

“The top trouble is the small clip we person to hole and signifier but the affirmative successful athletics comes successful presumption of being successful each the large competitions. The players are utilized to our benignant and the mode we privation to play.

"Even earlier the Manchester City game, the players were alert of our targets and to scope the knock-out stages. We person fixed ourselves a large accidental to bash that.” Pereira besides insisted that helium wants Sporting’s much-coveted striker Viktor Gyökeres to person a bully crippled against Arsenal adjacent though the Gunners are 1 of the clubs chasing his signature.

Pereira said: “Well, I conscionable anticipation Viktor has different bully crippled and shows what helium tin do.”

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