Ruben Amorim: Man Utd head coach admits he questioned his future at club during ‘tough’ first year | Football News

Ruben Amorim has admitted he doubted his future at Manchester United during his first year at the club.

Amorim will celebrate the one-year anniversary of agreeing to become the club’s manager on Saturday, as United visit Nottingham Forest looking to strengthen their challenge for a place in the top four in the Premier League.

The Portuguese coach has endured a difficult 12 months since his arrival from Sporting, finishing 15th, losing in the Europa League final and winning just one of the first five games this season, leaving him questioning whether he will even make it to a year in charge.

“It’s hard to say,” he said. “Sometimes, in some moments.” “There were some moments that were difficult to deal with, losing a lot of games. That was very difficult for me because this is Manchester United.

“The situation we had last year, where we put all our attention on the Europa League and not winning. That was massive. I had some moments where I struggled a lot and was thinking that maybe it wasn’t supposed to happen.

“Today is the opposite. So you can write this. Today I feel and know that this was the best decision of my life. I want to be here but for that I need to beat Nottingham Forest.”

Amorim is enjoying his best spell at the club, with United winning five of their last seven league games, including victories over Chelsea and Liverpool, to put themselves in the mix to qualify for Europe.

However, he is not ready to declare that the hard times have passed now.

“It’s hard to say. We need to think positive, but we also have to be prepared because football is like that [up and down]. We are not the team where I can tell you: no, no, no.

“Now we can lose here or there, but we will keep at it. I trust my players more. I think they trust me more. That will come with the wins. And you can feel it because now everyone is saying it, how attached and how confident they are to the coach.

“It’s about winning games. It hasn’t changed much because I saw the same team against Arsenal, so I don’t know.”

“I think we are in a better place, but it is also good to always have this feeling and prepare for the possibility that something will change. If we have this feeling, we will pay attention to the details and we will maintain this path in our path.

“I can say we are a better team at this moment, we feel it and we know it, and this can help us overcome bad moments better.”

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Amorim also responded to comments made by Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche ahead of his appointment at the City Ground.

While out of work in August, Dyche said: “I might be under pressure because of it, but I bet I can win more games with this 4-4-2 team.”

The former Everton coach also went on to say that Amorim should get time to continue his work at the club.

“First of all, it is probably true that if we played 4-4-2 we would win more games,” Amorim said on Thursday. “But I always say that I have a way of playing that will take some time, and then in the future it will be better.

“We don’t know that. I can look at Sean Dyche as a manager and an analyst. If you’re an analyst and you don’t say very strong things, I don’t want to watch you. I’m the same way.”

“I can completely understand it’s a different job. I know Sean Dyche is smart and knows how to play the game.

“He understands that it is one thing to see the game and talk about it, and it is another thing to coach the team.”

Daichi, who also spoke Thursday, said he never questioned Amorim as a person and that “clicks kill everything, change the whole story.”

“They said, ‘What’s a fair timeline?'” he added. And I said, “Half a season to continue the work he was doing,” but unfortunately, that doesn’t make the story, we all know that.

“For the number of points, I would suggest that maybe the basics were working better. They changed their style, fair play to him, his coaching staff, the players. They changed their style, not necessarily their beliefs, but just their style.

“They’re getting a little quicker playing forward and longer, they’re getting a little bit tighter and getting back into shape. That’s management, that’s coaching.”

“This does not mean that he has completely changed his philosophy, it just means that he is adapting it to the challenge he faces directly. Fair play to him.”