Amorim watches on at Carrington
Amorim watches on at Carrington
Ruben Amorim admits he is still deciding which players will be in his long-term plans at Manchester United.
Amorim has started 20 different players in his first five matches in charge and made a possible 25 substitutes out of 25.
United will have to sell to buy if they intend to do any business in the January transfer window but it is doubtful there will be a market for any of their squad members with the club 13th in the Premier League.
"I’m really focused to see my players and to understand my players, that is one of the problems of the club," Amorim said. "We have to focus on what we have, we have to focus on the academy and to have a clear profile of the players.
"So it’s a lot of details you have to manage. You can see at set pieces, sometimes you look at our team, we are a small team compared to others, every detail counts and we have to be very clear in the profiles, arrange all the process and go to that phase of buying and selling players.
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"But we have, like Ty (Malacia), international players, good players, we need time to teach them our ideas and then we will see because this is a massive club. If we don’t win, the coach goes, the player goes, so you have to know that.
"We have to improve as a team, we have to arrange a lot of things in our club before thinking just in buying or selling players. There’s a lot to do, let’s focus on improving our players, improving our academy and then see."
When it was suggested he may have already drawn conclusions on some players, Amorim replied: "I really don’t know, there’s a lot at stake in this moment, we have a lot to do. A lot of games, we don’t have time to train, the players have contracts, we have to see.
"It's a new idea, a new coach. Sometimes I have one idea in the first week, second week I have a different idea and then we have to see what happens so everything is so close. All the games during the opening of the window of January, I really don’t know. I’m just focused on improving the team, I cannot think further than the next game.
"Like any other team, when the window is open we can do something but our focus is to win games, we have to have this feeling of winning and we have to start tomorrow."