Harry Maguire has revealed that he was able to make contact with Ruben Amorim after the former Manchester United head coach was axed from Old Trafford.
Ruben Amorim is currently a free agent and has been out of the managerial dugout since January after his 14-month reign at Manchester United came to an end.
A fractured relationship between Ineos and the 41-year-old Portuguese coach at Old Trafford started to emerge ahead of his sacking from the Premier League club.
Amorim became Man Utd’s seventh permanent manager in the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era after he left Sporting CP in 2024 and replaced Erik ten Hag.
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Harry Maguire during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Aston Villa at Old Trafford in 2026 in Manchester, England.
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What Harry Maguire told former Man Utd manager Ruben Amorim and vice versa after Old Trafford exit
The Red Devils were sixth in the Premier League table at the time that Ruben Amorim’s erratic Manchester United managerial reign met an abrupt finish.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos regime immediately appointed Darren Fletcher as caretaker manager and later brought Michael Carrick back to Old Trafford as interim boss.
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Harry Maguire had enjoyed a career resurgence under Amorim last season and United triggered his contract extension during the 2024-25 Premier League season.
Speaking to The Daily Mirror, the 33-year-old former Man Utd captain admitted that he spoke to Amorim after his sacking and has predicted that he has a bright future.
“I spoke to him when he left. He wished us all the best,” he said.
“I’m sure he would have been upset, but I know he’s still really, really young and I’m sure he’s going to go on to great things in management.”
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Man Utd defender Harry Maguire breaks his silence on his relationship with Ruben Amorim at Old Trafford
Michael Carrick has made an immediate impact in the post-Amorim era and the Red Devils have climbed into the Premier League top-four picture under his interim reign.
Despite United’s improved form, consistency and momentum under Carrick, Maguire refused to overlook the important role that Amorim played for him at the club.
“I think Ruben was really good with me. I pretty much played every game under Ruben when I was fit,” he explained.
“I don’t really have much bad to say about Ruben. I really like Ruben, I think he’s got great ideas. The ideas just didn’t work at Manchester United.
“I do believe he’ll go on and have an amazing career, and his next club he’ll probably go and win many, many football matches.
“It just didn’t click or work and I think us as players have got to take a lot of responsibility for that as well.
“But I think he has led the club in a direction, and I do think he deserves a lot of credit for that, where he’s built a good, solid squad and I do believe that he deserves credit for that.”
United legend Carrick has been appointed interim head coach until the end of the 2025-26 Premier League season amid Ineos’ hunt for Amorim’s successor.
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