Ruben Amorim said that Manchester United will have to “suffer for a long period” before the club enjoys success under his reign.
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United must “suffer for a long period”
Marcus Rashford raised United’s hopes of a win by scoring the opener in the first 81 seconds, but Omari Hutchinson’s equalizer for Ipswich Town eventually dashed them.
United settled for a 1-1 draw with Ipswich after two crucial saves by goalkeeper Andre Onana.
Despite having less than a week to work with his new squad, the former Sporting CP coach quickly applied his favoured 3-4-2-1 formation.
Although it didn’t result in a victory on his United debut, Amorim insisted that his squad will have “to suffer for a long period” before his strategies yield positive results.
“I know it’s frustrating for the fans, but we are changing so much in this moment with a lot of games,” Amorim told reporters. “We are going to suffer for a long period and we will try to win games, but this will take time.”
“We have to win games, but we could lose if it was not for Onana, so I think we have to understand that and think and be pragmatic that these guys had two days to train to change so much.”
“It’s hard for the players in three days to cope with everything, but we forget about the new idea. I think that’s why I was brought here in the middle of the season and we try to cope with the things they are used to doing [under Erik ten Hag].”
“Next year in the same stage, we will be here with the same problems or we start now, we risk a little bit, we suffer a little bit and in the next year we will be better at this point so we have to risk it a little bit.”
Change is coming under Amorim
Amorim emphasized to his players to stop doing what they did under the previous helm.
Nonetheless, the Portuguese boss commended his players for sticking to his system.
“The [players] are thinking too much because we are changing too much with two trainings now without space to improve in training.”
“But what I understood today is they are trying. They are really trying. Even in the difficult moments, I felt they were doing the things we wanted them to do.”
“Some details — they used to pass the ball and go forward, even the centre-backs. Now they have to go back. These type of things. They start going forward and they have to think too much.”
“Dalot used to do it, pass the ball to centre-backs, go inside, play as a midfielder, now he has to stick to this position.”
“When we want to listen to a lot of you guys that Manchester United doesn’t have a structure, we will have a situation [for] you [to] see a structure and you will [see] that but it’s not fluid.”
“This is like steps. We have to put in the heads, the structure. When they start thinking about the structure, they will play so much better.
“But we need time to do that and during this time we have to manage to win games. That is very important and I know that.”
