Ruben Amorim says that Manchester United players can have no complaint regarding the criticism of Sir Jim Ratcliffe and cited Casemiro as an example of someone who had to increase their game.
Ratcliffe said this week that some united players were “not good enough” and that some were “too paid” in the criticism of the Amorim team.
The co -owner of United also made a rather withered reference to a multitude of players that I had “inherited” in Old Trafford, notably midfielder Casemiro, striker Rasmus Hojlund, goalkeeper Andre Onana and wingers Antony and Jadon Sancho, both during the loan.
Now Amorim said it was the responsibility of the players to prove that Ratcliffe is wrong and that the Champions League winner has verified the name Casemiro – the best remunerated member of the team on £ 375,000 per week, which only started 13 Premier League games – as an example of a player who had to offer more. Casemiro said he wanted to stay in United next season, but is one of the many players confronted with an uncertain future.
“I think that if we are honest at the moment everyone, I, all the underperforming players this season so that we can always change this,” Amorim said before the second floor of the end of the 16th of the United 16th, the Real Sociedad at Old Trafford on Thursday.
“So I include myself in this part of the underperformance. You talk about players like Casemiro, for example, who have won everything and we know that this type of players can play so much better. It is therefore the object. He was honest in there. The objective is to change your mind and change the mind of all the people.
“I think it’s the right way to do it. Many people say that I am not good enough for the club and my feeling is that you can change this with results. In training, I think they really want so bad, especially tomorrow.
Referring to the players whose Ratcliffe regime inherited, the British billionaire said: “These are all things from the past, whether we like it or not, we have inherited these things and have to settle this.”
Amorim said he had brought any of his players to record their dissatisfaction with Ratcliffe remarks. “No, nothing. I didn’t feel anything, “he said. “I really enjoyed training today, so we are ready to face the game.”
Ratcliffe and the CEO of United, Omar Berrad, both launched their full support behind Amorim this week. Berrada said United “would” like “Amorim to lead them to their new planned stadium of 2 billion pounds sterling in 2030/31 and that Ratcliffe said that the Portuguese was doing” excellent work in the circumstances “and revealed that the pair had had frank conversations.
“Whenever I go to the training field, I’m talking to Ruben,” said Ratcliffe. “I sit down and take a cup of coffee with him and I tell him where it’s okay, and he tells me about f — off. I love him.
Amorim was frank in his own future, insisting that he knows the “consequences” of the bad results, and there is considerable pressure on Thursday’s match against Sociedad – which is equal to 1-1 after the first leg – with it representing the last realistic road of United in Europe and the chance of a trophy this season. Winning the Europa League would guarantee the qualification in the Champions League and, although Murim insisted that he felt the private support of Ratcliffe and Berrada, he said that he was pleasant to hear them publicly.
“It’s really good since the first day,” said Amorim about his relationship with Ratcliffe. “I think we are really frank and honest with each other. It is a bit of our characters, we are quite similar there. I have always felt the support of the board of directors and especially of Sir Jim.
“I cannot tell you the conversations but these are simple conversations, clear conversations and honest conversations.
“I already knew that [the support they have for me]. All these conversations that I have already had in the past with them. After the matches, they went to the locker room to talk to me and explain it, but say it publicly is really good for the coach. But I continue to say the same thing. We need results and we need to improve the team. But from the first day, I felt everyone’s support here. »»
Mason Mount returned to training after three months, but Amorim said that the Sociedad’s match would come “too early” for him. Leny Yoro has also joined the injury list and should miss the match on Sunday against Leicester, but Manuel Ugarte is available again.
Amorim congratulated the new plans of Stade of United, but says that he cannot look so far in the future.
“It is an incredible stadium, as it should be, but it is in the future, in five years, we must therefore focus on the present and I am really excited to earn things at Old Trafford,” he said. “This is our goal.”
Old Trafford’s demolition work will take a year
Old Trafford would take 12 months to eliminate once Manchester United is ready to move into his new stadium of 2 billion pounds Sterling, he emerged.
United hopes to be able to move into a new stadium of 100,000 inhabitants that Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to be Manchester’s response to the Eiffel Tower on a redesigned site of 260 acres in time for the start of the 2030/31 season.
The Ruben Amorim team would continue to play in a full traffic of 74,000 people during the time necessary to develop the new land, a large part of which would be built out of site thanks to the so-called “prefabrication” to accelerate the planned five-year construction time.
Once the new stadium is fully operational, United then begins the process of deconstruction of Old Trafford, that the architects of Foster + Partners have indicated that it would take approximately a year.
United originally planned to keep Old Trafford, their house for 115 years, in a scale form, potentially as a stadium of 30,000 inhabitants to house the women’s team and the academy.
But the club explored the economic feasibility of managing two stages and the cost and work involved in reducing the workforce of such an old building and finally established that it had no financial meaning.
Omar Berrada, the director general of United, confirmed on Tuesday that it was “unlikely” that Old Trafford remains and all the current plans seem to imply its possible demolition.
United explored the possibility of redeveloping Old Trafford with an increase of 87,000 people in what would have been a project estimated at 1.2 billion pounds sterling, although with the risks of considerable hidden costs and a much longer construction time.
There was also the question of having to play Old Trafford with reduced capacity while the construction work was underway.
This would have seriously reached sources of income since United has the luxury of being able to move into temporary terrain large enough to house all their supporters like Tottenham had played Wembley while the construction of their new stadium took place.
United is impatient to be able to start working on the new stadium later this year, but, in addition to the most urgent question of the club aligning funding, there must also be an alignment with all the stakeholders involved in the wider regeneration project.
Collette Roche, head of the UNITED exploitation, was in Cannes on Wednesday with Lord Coe, president of the Old Trafford regeneration working group, and the mayor of the Grand Manchester Andy Burnham, for the Mipim, a real estate and international fair fair.
United – who believes that the new stadium could increase the club’s ebitda (profit before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) by around 130 million pounds sterling per year – should show its stadium plans during the event when they submitted to investment opportunities in the project.
The design always in the conceptual phase, there should be more commitment and consultation with supporters. One thing considered important will be the location of statues such as the Holy Trinity of Sir Bobby Charlton, George Best and Denis Law, which could be located on a part of the “processional” gateway which should link the new stadium and a rail terminal to Old Trafford reconstructed. Key positions for other full parties of the heritage and history of United, such as the Munich clock, will also have to be found and agreed.
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The idea of the Three Masts of the new stadium, inspired by the Red Devil Trident on the crest of the club, was formed during a meeting on December 17 in the Foster + Partners of Partners assisted by Ratcliffe and the founder of the architectural cabinet Lord Norman Foster.
Rather than creating a stadium that looked like a sort of steel “fortress”, the emphasis was put on the test of creating something more open with a covered space which finally led to the idea of a canopy of 104 square meters – or a “umbrella” – and a step driven at 15.9 meters below the level of the ground. And then finally the three vertical masts, including the largest east of 200 meters and which could be seen at almost 25 miles away. The Sofi Stadium and Hollywood Park development in Los Angeles was a significant source of inspiration.
“We had a meeting in this room on December 17, with many ideas, many options and we had an excellent session with Norman Foster and also with Jim [Ratcliffe]”Said Nigel Dancey, Senior Director Partner at Fosters.
“I think there was a feeling that it was really the most emblematic and most different stage that we can do. It was something that would distinguish us and offer something to Manchester, which was suitable for the climate but also a place where people would say: “I want to go, it would be an ideal place.” »»
Meanwhile, the renovated Carrington Training Field of United should be open and be fully operational from July 31. The site is currently being transformed and, although it is not sure to be completely finished in time for the start of the pre-season in early July, the work should be completed by the end of this month. Amorim and his team will be able to use the establishment once they are returned from the club’s pre-season tour in the United States in early August.