Manchester United's incoming head coach Ruben Amorim reflects on a dream departure from Sporting, but warns of 'different world' in the Premier League.
His last Sporting home game, after four and a half years helping transform the club, pitted against a Manchester City side which cast a decade-long shadow over his new Manchester United team by virtue of the total domination that was once theirs.
Amorim was repeatedly pushed to the front of the Sporting squad as they made they way round a well-deserved lap of honour to take the acclaim of fans it had been said turned against the 39-year-old but it turns out still love him. “It will be a completely different world, a different team, we won’t have that much time to train and we will begin from a different starting point. People can make their own judgements but I say to the people of Manchester that this was a one-off.”The most obvious difference being widely analysed is that Amorim plays three central defenders.Yet that is one of the attractions. Inside United they believe labelling Amorim as someone who plays with three central defenders is too simplistic.
More pertinently in terms of this argument, at a cost of £52m, the 18-year-old is potentially the best, and definitely the most expensive, of all the club's most recent signings. Amorim is not omni-present in the technical area. Nor does he bounce down like Guardiola, who tends to mutter a sentence or two to his coaching staff before bouncing back up to resume giving orders. At one point, Amorim even let a member of his backroom team take centre stage, although by that point Sporting were 4-1 up and Amorim was possibly trying to compute what was happening.
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