Dalot feels Amorim is ‘a perfect match’

Diogo Dalot believes Manchester United and our new head coach Ruben Amorim will form ‘a perfect match’.

Although the full-back has not worked with his compatriot before, he’s heard plenty of positive things from his peers in the Portugal team who are more familiar with the Sporting boss.

Amorim has won two top-flight titles with the Lions and, since his appointment in March 2020, the Lisbon club boast the highest winning percentage of any club in Europe’s top 10 leagues.

Dalot hopes that the impact the 39-year-old has had at the Estadio Jose Alvalade can transfer to Manchester and boost our quest to return to the pinnacle of English and European football.

“Personally I don’t know him,” Dalot told the Premier League.

“What I know is from what I see, from what I get from my national team team-mates. He’s obviously a fantastic coach, with a young mentality, but at the same time he knows what he wants.

“He’s very demanding – that’s what I can expect and I think that’s the perfect match for a club like this.

“The standards are really high. He is a person that you can see has really high standards and he stands by them, so I hope that can be a really good match and that we can win together.

“That’s what I hope the most.”

If Amorim can make half the impression Jose Mourinho did in England, he will be a resounding success and our new boss spent time learning from his predecessor at Carrington in 2018.

For such a small country, Portugal has real coaching pedigree at top-flight level, even beyond the obvious achievements of Mourinho with Porto, Chelsea and Internazionale, among others.

Fulham and Nottingham Forest are currently punching above their weight under the stewardships of Marco Silva and Nuno Espirito Santo, and Dalot believes Amorim can continue that trend.

“Yes, I think the Premier League really suits obviously people from Portugal,” Diogo added.

“We have this culture of constantly trying to prove ourselves and trying to fight for a place because we come from a small country.

“It’s been all over the years, Portuguese managers and players coming to the Premier League and coming to England and being successful.

“So I really hope it’s one more case and I’m really excited to start working with him.”

Amorim also has past managerial experience with Casa Pia and Braga, to whom Sporting paid a significant fee to release him from his contract in 2020.

Dalot appreciates United is another step entirely as Amorim leaves his homeland for the first time in his coaching career, but highlights that everyone will be pulling in the same direction to aid our new appointment in his mission.

“It’s obviously different. He comes from a big club in Portugal. I will say that he almost quadruples the amount of exposure, the intensity, the pressure [here], but in Sporting he was more than able to deal with it.

“We are here obviously and we’re going to be a team. Players, staff, managers, board, directors: we’re going to be a team.

“We have to work with each other, I’m sure we will help him in some way and he will help us back.”

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