{"id":153691,"date":"2025-10-30T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153691\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:00:07","slug":"tough-really-tough-ruben-amorim-on-his-first-year-at-manchester-united-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/153691\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tough, really tough\u2019: Ruben Amorim on his first year at Manchester United | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruben Amorim has admitted his first year at Manchester United<\/a> has been \u201creally tough\u201d but is clear he wants to be head coach for as long as possible.<\/p>\n

Amorim was confirmed as Erik ten Hag\u2019s successor<\/a> on 1 November and officially took over 10 days later. The Portuguese has won 21 and lost 19 of his 52 games \u2013 a 40% victory rate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a journey, a big journey,\u201d he said of his first 12 months. \u201cIt was tough, really tough, good moments and bad moments. I learned a lot that is really important. I found out that even in my lower moments I can stick with the things I believe and that is a good thing for anyone to understand. Today the answer is different from three weeks ago. One of the biggest honours of my life to be here and I want to continue here for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

United have won their past three Premier League matches, against Sunderland<\/a>, Liverpool<\/a> and Brighton<\/a>. On Saturday they travel to Nottingham Forest, led by Sean Dyche, who will take charge of his third game.<\/p>\n

In August when not working as a manager Dyche claimed he could perform better with United\u2019s squad than Amorim. \u201cI bet I could win more games with that squad playing a 4-4-2,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Amorim shrugged off Dyche\u2019s comments. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s true that if we play 4-4-2 we win more games,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I always said that I have a way of playing that is going to take a while, but in the future it\u2019s going to be better. Then I can look at Sean Dyche as a manager and then as a pundit. If you are a pundit and you don\u2019t say very strong things, I don\u2019t want to watch you. So I can understand that it\u2019s a completely different job. I know that Sean Dyche is really smart and he knows how to play the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe also understands that one thing is when we are seeing the game and talking about the game, the other thing is to coach a team. I have nothing to say, I just want to win the next game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lisandro Mart\u00ednez, who has not played since sustaining a knee injury in February, has resumed full training. Amorim said: \u201cHe wants to go to [play in] this one [Forest] \u2013 he\u2019s not going to. He\u2019s done training with us but we changed some things in the exercises, so slowly he\u2019s going to get better.\u201d Amorim said he was not certain whether Harry Maguire would be fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim has admitted his first year at Manchester United has been \u201creally tough\u201d but is clear he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-153691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115464190903598054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}