Bruno backs Amorim despite finals loss and woeful season by voicing his support for the embattled manager after loss to Spurs.
Bruno backs Amorim to stay at Manchester United saying he ‘has done a lot of good things’.
Despite Manchester United’s loss to Tottenham in the Europa League final on Wednesday, Bruno Fernandes has maintained that Ruben Amorim should continue as head coach. The captain acknowledged that he would go if the team wanted to “cash in” on him.
Brennan Johnson’s goal in the 42nd minute gave United the victory in the final at San Mamés Stadium. Amorim later declared that if the board and supporters stopped believing in him, he would quit the “next day.”
Fernandes was asked what he would say to Sir Jim Ratcliffe if the minority owner was minded to accept the offer. He said: “It’s not my decision but I do think the manager is the right one and I don’t think that it will be a better person to come into the job and do the job.
“I know it’s difficult to understand that, it’s difficult to see that. But I still do think that he’s the right man to lead the club. I do think that the club is in a situation where it’s easier to get a different [head coach] in because the results haven’t been there. But as my other teammates said, and I repeat myself, I do think he’s the right man.”
Fernandes was asked why he is so sure of Amorim. “He has done a lot of good things,” he said. “We know that the manager is looked at by the results. Obviously we see more than that as players. We know for everyone it will be about him bringing back the positivity in the club. To try to bring the club back to fight for trophies, fight for the big trophies. And we all agree that he’s the right man.”
The playmaker was asked how determined he is to remain as part of a squad rebuild. He said: “I have always been honest. I’ve always said I will be here until the club says to me that it’s time to go. I’m eager to do more, to be able to bring the club to the great days. In the day that the club thinks that I’m too much or it’s time to part ways, football is like this, you never know it. But I’ve always said it and I keep my word in the same way.
“If the club thinks it’s time to part ways because they want to do some cashing in or whatever, it’s what it is and football sometimes is like this. The players have said that this season has been unacceptable.”