Ruben Amorim is preparing for his first transfer window as Manchester United manager but insists his focus is on some key games before January comes around
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Ruben Amorim has claimed he cannot afford to think about the January transfer window with Manchester United facing so many games this month.
United's Europa League tie against Viktoria Plzen on Thursday is their fourth of nine in all competitions in December, with Amorim admitting his ideas on how best to shape his squad going forward are changing by the week.
“There’s a lot at stake at this moment,” said Amorim. “We have a lot to do, a lot of games, we don’t have time to train, the players have contracts, so we have to see.
“It's a new idea, with a new coach. Sometimes I have one idea in the first week and in the second week I have a different idea.
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“Then we have to see what happens, so everything is so close, with all the games during the opening of the window in January. So 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."
Expanding on his desire to get the best out of the players he inherited from predecessor Erik ten Hag, Amorim added: “I’m really focused to see my players and to understand my players. That is one of the problems of the club.
“We have to focus on what we have, we have to focus on the academy and to have a clear profile of the players.
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Ruben Amorim wants additions at Man United ( Image: Getty Images)
"So it’s a lot of details you have to manage. You can see at set-pieces, sometimes you look at our team and we are a small team compared to others.
“Every detail counts and we have to be very clear in the profiles, arrange all the processes and go to that phase of buying and selling players.
"But we have international players, good players, and 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 terms of buying or selling players. There’s a lot to do, so let’s focus on improving our players, improving our academy and then see."
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