Ruben Amorim makes honest Man Utd confession and admits to relegation gamble
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Ruben Amorim has joked that managing Manchester United has already started to seriously damage his good looks. It has taken just nine weeks in the Old Trafford mad house for the 39-year-old to admit that he no longer recognises the man who arrived from Sporting Lisbon when he peers into the bathroom mirror every morning.
Amorim is hoping that the arrival of his family in Manchester over Christmas will help him deal with the unique pressures that come with being in charge of the biggest club in the Premier League. The Portuguese accepts that he’s inherited a squad that is struggling to cope with the weight of the famous Red shirt so much that he felt compelled to issue a relegation warning after a defeat against Newcastle meant he became the first United manager in over a century to lose five of his first eight league matches.
There could not be a worse time for United to take on a rampant Liverpool team in front of an Anfield crowd that will have blood in its nostrils. Amorim managed to chuckle as he said: “You can see in my face - you can compare the way I arrive to how I look now!”.
But it was gallows humour, he added: “Of course when you are losing there is a lot of pressure, but for me it’s more about the pride and also the performance. “It’s even harder when we don’t perform well because, when I arrived I explain everything. Even when you guys were talking after Everton about us finishing in the top four, I explained that I was expecting this.
“It is hard to cope with all the problems here and the bad performances and the losses. It is really hard - but it is supposed to be really hard. The only thing that can help me is the training with the players - and I also have my family now here so it’s so much different. It can help me. They came on the 27th - and it was a good day!”.
