Man Utd enjoyed an excellent October and Ruben Amorim has won the manager of the month award.
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Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has been named the Premier League manager of the month.
Amorim secured wins against Sunderland, Liverpool and Brighton during an uplifting month for the club.
The 40-year-old claimed back-to-back league wins for the first time in the Premier League against Liverpool at Anfield, with Harry Maguire scoring a late headed goal to seal a 2-1 victory.
United built on that performance by winning 4-2 against Brighton at Old Trafford. Matheus Cunha scored his first goal for the club in that game, Casemiro found the net and Bryan Mbeumo notched a brace.
The impressive run of form started against Sunderland at the beginning of the month. Mason Mount opened the scoring within eight minutes in that match and Benjamin Sesko extended the advantage.
"The credit is not mine, the credit is for my players. They did really well, and our goal is to win the next one [award], because it means we win football matches and that is our goal," Amorim said after winning the award.
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He recently told the One on One podcast: "One month, everything changed. Of course, that interview from the owner helped to calm down the things, but again, I have zero fear of losing any job. That will not change my life in the place I am.
"It's not going to change that. My biggest fear is not winning games. That is the feeling of suffering. That is the only thing I'm focused on, not what people think. Of course, I want people to love my football and say I'm the best manager in the world, but that is not going to happen no matter what happens. I just want to win games. If I win games, I will be happy."
Amorim was asked about the status of his rebuild and responded: "It's hard to say. I don't know how long it's going to take. What I can say is I'm going to do what is best for the club.
"That is going to be always my option. I will not do nothing to save myself and not think about what is best for the club. I think I proved a little bit of that during my one year.
"That is something I can promise to any fan of Manchester United. The most important thing is to do everything that is going to help Manchester United to return to the trophies. And when I say trophies, it's winning the Premier League and Champions League. I will try be one piece that helps get to that place.
"I don't want to leave this club without winning. That is so massive for me. If I'm going to be here for the final stage, I don't know. That is not my concern, but I'm going to do everything to help the club return to that place."
Amorim continued: "I had a lot of support. You can start with the board and the players. It's a fight every day in our club. You want to change things and there's a lot to do, but I've grown up a lot.
"I enjoy to be here. There's not another club like this, which gives you the strength to fight for the opportunity, but I live day by day and I know this changed so fast, so I need to fight every day to maintain my job.
"That is a good thing because that is life. If life is always good or always bad, that is not life. Life is like this and I really enjoy my life here."
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