Manchester United midfielder Manuel Ugarte has revealed his teammates have all been stunned by one factor relating to incoming head coach Ruben Amorim.
Amorim was the candidate chosen to switch Erik ten Hag following the Dutchman’s dismissal on the finish of final month, with United triggering a launch clause to finish his Sporting CP tenure.
The Portuguese coach will begin work on Monday after serving a diminished discover interval in Lisbon and is tasked with restoring success to the membership after a poor begin to the season and a tricky decade for the reason that 2013 retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson.
Ugarte is aware of Amorim properly already, having performed beneath him at Sporting previous to a giant cash switch to Paris Saint-Germain in the summertime of 2023. The Uruguayan has due to this fact been the person with all of the solutions for his United colleagues about their new boss.
“My teammates have requested so much about him. What stunned them was his age,” Ugarte advised DAZN Portugal, referencing the truth that Amorim is simply 39 and never really a lot older than a number of the extra senior gamers he’ll now lead at Previous Trafford.
“He is additionally very hungry to win and that is essential. I can inform he’ll get pleasure from it.
“I noticed that Sporting followers had been upset and that is comprehensible, as a result of the coach is a superb coach. It is good for United, we’ve got to reap the benefits of it and get him to convey his concepts as rapidly as attainable.
“I believe it should be a special dynamic and the day-to-day will probably be much like Sporting’s. The league, the nation, the soccer…it is a massive problem for him however everyone knows he has the power. It is optimistic, primarily as a result of the membership wants to begin constructing a path, which is vital, and the coach will probably be key to that.”
