21/09/2025

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SPORTS 14

My way or the highway

Amorim sticks to his guns as pressure mounts

Sir Jim Ratcliffe. – AFPPIC

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UNDER-FIRE Ruben Amorim sug gested even the Pope could not make him change his approach having been reassured by Sir Jim Ratcliffe that he does not need to fear white smoke from Manchester United. Pressure is mounting on the Portuguese after the club’s worst top-flight campaign in 51 years and Europa League final loss to Tottenham was compounded by a sluggish start to the new season. Amorim knows the spotlight is on him heading but believes he has the backing of the boardroom after speaking to co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Thursday at Carrington. Asked what they had spoken about, the United boss said with a laugh: “New contract. He was offering me a new contract. “No, it’s normal things, just to show the support, explaining that it’s a long project. He said many times ‘this is my third season’. For me it’s not, but normal things. “(I) spoke with him, with Omar (Berrada, chief executive), with Jason (Wilcox, director of football) just trying to see all the data around the team, so a normal meeting and we had several. “But in this moment it is normal people pay attention to that.” Amorim said of his approach after the City loss that “when I want to change my philosophy I will change but, if not, you have to change the man” – com ments he says did not come up with Ratcliffe. “No, no, no,” he said. “Not once. Not even the Pope, it will not change… this is my job, this

of pressure – it doesn’t matter if he’s all around the world – is say ing ‘you need to change the sys tem’ and I’m going to change in this moment, they will look at me in a different way. “So, when you think about the impact that any decision is going to have on the team, everything is important. “So, I will say the same thing. This will have an evolution. I’m doing things my way. “Some guys do it in a different way, but it will change, so I hope to have the time to change, but it will change.” Amorim, who said there was “no contact” with former club Benfica before Jose Mourinho took charge this week, is focused on success with United, whose squad he has reshaped this sum mer. Marcus Rashford scored a brace for Barcelona at Newcastle but Amorim is not concerned about such moves backfiring. When Rashford’s Champions League performance was men tioned, Amorim inter

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is my responsi bility, this is my life, so I will not change that, but I will change the sys tem. “There will be an evolu tion, but we need to make all the good steps. “To tell you, if I’m a player and I have a coach that with a lot

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