Amorim sought to defend Sesko when speaking about him a few days later but instead, in his typical, brutally honest way, he sounded like he too was criticising the player. He said: "When I started training with Ben, he had more potential than I was thinking. He’s going to struggle, and we need to understand how he likes to play, and also to put in our ideas.
"He has no experience here, and then the first impact when everyone says that you are so good, you are the next big thing – and you hear about that with Sesko – and then you come to one club that is the hardest club.
"If you don't perform every week, you are going to hear a lot of things from club legends, from pundits, from the media - and sometimes they are right. Of course, nobody likes to hear, but he struggled a little bit, and that is a fact. So, let's embrace that. Ben is a young kid, a control freak. He wants to control everything - and he's not going to control everything."
Amorim's tough love approach with Sesko did not really yield results, although he had the misfortune to injure his knee in his very next game against Tottenham.