Manchester United have held talks about appointing Ruben Amorim as the club's new manager. BBC Sport take a closer look at the Portuguese.
Ruben Amorim learned how to become a football manager during an internship under Jose Mourinho at Manchester United - six years on he is being talked about as the club's potential new manager.
Ten wins in 13 games - including a first victory at Benfica for 65 years - soon caught the eye of bigger clubs and, so keen were Sporting to secure his services that they paid 10m euros, to make him their manager in March 2020. Former Liverpool and Portugal defender Abel Xavier spent time with Amorim while they were taking their coaching badges and was impressed with what he saw from the outset."At Braga we saw an immediate impact because, with the same squad, with the same players, he transformed the team.
"As well as those lessons from his former coach Jorge Jesus, Amorim looked closely at those who show a special quality as leaders, including Mourinho. "I think all the qualities are there to be able to succeed in English, French, or Spanish football," he told SportTV last year. "The Manchester United job may look like an impossible one right now, but so did Sporting's when Amorim was unveiled as their head coach on 5 March 2020.
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