Ruben Amorim says Ayden Heaven may have changed Manchester United’s summer transfer priorities.
In the embargoed section of the press conference ahead of United’s match against neighbours City tomorrow, the boss was also asked about the injury crisis that he has endured this season. He pointed out that necessity is the mother of invention.
“I found out that Garna can play on the right,” he said.
“We found out Ayden is ready to stay on our squad and maybe we can change the way we are going to the market. There are always good things and the bad things.”
Amorim was also asked what is the secret to beating City, as he has the chance to emulate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Jurgen Klopp as the only managers to beat Pep Guardiola’s men three times in one season.
“Lucky. The first game – with Sporting – we were so lucky. The first half could have been 0-4 and we won 4-1. The second game, I prefer, we won in the last second of the game. They controlled possession a little bit more but we were there fighting with Man City. If I have to tell you one thing, it was maybe luck.
“We are prepared for the game, we are better in some aspects in the game. Maybe the results don’t reflect that, but we are improving.”
He was also asked his views on City’s new sporting director Hugo Viana, having worked with him at Sporting, and linked his time at Sporting to Jason Wilcox’s job at United now.
“Of course we need to have a great connection and I was so lucky to work with Hugo,” he said.
“It’s not the same but I find it’s more or less the same relation with Jason, so in that department I’m completely relaxed. We need to be really good in recruitment. We need to know our system and the way we play. The players have to be perfect for that position, so we know what to do, that is clear.”
Amorim also expanded on his comment earlier in the presser that United need to sign “one or two big players” this summer.
“I shouldn’t have said that, big players,” he laughed.
“It’s characteristics that we don’t have in our squad,” he explained. “Trying to see gaps that we have in our squad.
“When I say big players, it’s not players from Real Madrid, etc. It’s big players in the way I see the game.”
Kick off at Old Trafford is at 4.30pm BST.
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Red Billy is the managing editor of The Peoples Person, author of three books and totally obsessed with football’s transfer market. Billy still insists Matteo Darmian and Alex Telles could have made it at United given half a chance.
