Amorim on Sesko signing, improving from last year and Arsenal challenge (Full Presser)

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Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim on the signing of Benjamin Sesko, their hopes to improve this season and the challenge of a Premier League opener with Arsenal Carrington, Manchester, UK

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00:00Happy new season. Easy question to start with team news out of the weekend.

00:04We didn't see Mazerawi or Alessandro the other day at training.

00:07How are they? Do you have any other concerns?

00:09No, news in Licha are out. They cannot play this game.

00:14Josh recover, Andre recover. They are option for this game. We'll see.

00:19And first time we've got to speak to you since you've got Benjamin Czesco joining the club.

00:23What do you feel about his signing, his potential,

00:26and this new front three you now have with Mbwemo and Kunja as well?

00:30How exciting is that now?

00:31First of all, we have more than three.

00:35So they are fighting for the places.

00:38I'm really happy. I think he has a great potential in everything he does.

00:43He can play different type of footballs.

00:47He's going to feel that Premier League is really aggressive.

00:50He's going to learn, but he has a great potential.

00:54I can see Ben be a striker for Manchester United for a long of years.

01:01That's why we pay so much money to have a striker that will have his history in our club.

01:08Ruben, in terms of Benjamin, do you feel like he is able to start this game?

01:13Has he had enough time with you to understand what he needs to do

01:16and to work on his fitness to go from the start against Arsenal?

01:19Of course, we didn't have a lot of time, but he's ready.

01:25First of all, physically, he's ready.

01:27That is a big component in our league.

01:30Then he's really smart.

01:32Every detail that he asks, he's a guy that is always thinking.

01:37He spends all afternoon here working on his fitness.

01:40So he's ready to play.

01:42We'll see if he's going to start.

01:46Ruben, you said in the United States there were times last season

01:51when you set off for games and you feared what was going to happen.

01:56Do you, after this period of time,

01:59are you confident you know what your team has got to deliver?

02:02It's hard to know because we cannot change everything in four weeks,

02:09but we are better.

02:11I know that we are training harder, we are training better.

02:14So I know that we are more prepared to cope with the demands of the game.

02:20We have new players that we need to understand in the real game

02:25what they are capable to do in the moment.

02:28But I'm really more confident.

02:30That is clear.

02:31I'm more confident in this moment.

02:33But again, we cannot change everything in four weeks.

02:36But step by step we are going to be a better team.

02:40But of course I'm more confident.

02:44Have you set the team targets this season?

02:47No, we want to return to Europe.

02:52But it's hard as a Manchester United coach to say one thing like that.

02:57Yes, but we need to be realistic with our fans.

03:00Even that we are going to have to fight a lot

03:03because there are a lot of good teams with more time than us together.

03:07But we are going to fight for it.

03:10We want to improve.

03:12We need to focus game by game.

03:14If we are thinking how we are going to finish the season is a problem.

03:18Let's focus on game by game.

03:20We want to win against Arsenal.

03:22That is the main focus.

03:23Hi, Ruben.

03:27You obviously know Victor Jokeres very well from Sporting.

03:30Can you tell us a bit more?

03:32When you signed him, he hadn't even played in the Premier League.

03:35He goes on to score 97 goals in 102 games for Sporting.

03:40Did you see something there that other people hadn't seen?

03:43Did he develop quicker and better than you could have expected?

03:46That is a question for Mikkel.

03:50But Victor is a different league.

03:53The physicality is different.

03:57In Sporting, they have a very good group of scouting

04:01because they leave from that,

04:04from the players that they can buy and then sell to survive.

04:08I think he is a very good player.

04:13He is going to give different characteristics.

04:16He is going to be different if we face in the beginning of the game

04:18Victor or Havertz, for example.

04:22So we need to be prepared for that.

04:23But it is not a surprise to watch Victor in the big club in England.

04:27Do you want a new midfielders to come in and would you be confident of getting one in?

04:55Because it does look like you are quite light in that area.

04:58I am really happy with our players.

05:01They are working really well.

05:03We have different players for that position.

05:05So we are prepared to win any game with our players.

05:09Are there any players who could potentially step into midfield

05:12who aren't seen as out-and-out midfielders?

05:15Maybe Maze and Mount.

05:17I think he is a player that can play in that position.

05:19If we want something different.

05:21But then we are going to find out during the season.

05:26But we have players to cope and to win games in Premier League.

05:30You said a couple of times last season that obviously Mikel has had a lot of time

05:34to mould his team and they are seeing the results now.

05:38You have also said that perhaps you are not going to get the same amount of time

05:40because this is Manchester United.

05:43As you are starting the new season, how do you assess your position?

05:46You have said that lots of players have got a clean slate.

05:49Do you feel that it is a clean slate for you as well?

05:51That all of last season can just be forgotten

05:52and you should be allowed to have the time this season

05:55to mould the team in the way you want?

05:57I learned a lot last season.

05:59One of the things that I learned is that I don't need to focus a lot in the future.

06:04That doesn't matter.

06:05I don't care.

06:05I just want to win against Arsenal to focus on Arsenal.

06:09And I need to live day by day like my players and focus on each game.

06:13So I learned that everything that gets a little bit noise to our team

06:19I have to take out of the picture.

06:22So I just prepare to coach my team against Arsenal.

06:26Is that a hard thing to do though at Man United?

06:29No, of course, as a manager you have to, with the board,

06:33you have to have a plan, a long plan.

06:35But nowadays with the three interviews every week,

06:41we just need to focus on Arsenal.

06:42We want to win this game against a very good team,

06:47against a very good coach.

06:49Let's focus on that.

06:50Richard and then finish with Paul.

06:53Hi, I just wanted to ask about Bruno Fernandes.

06:55How do the new arrivals benefit him?

06:58Does it change?

06:59And you said over the tour that you want him to be close to the area,

07:02but obviously the new arrivals make it sound like he's probably going to play

07:05in the midfield too.

07:06Do you still want him to be advancing?

07:07Even last season when he plays as a midfielder,

07:12it was like maybe the player that had more shots near the box.

07:19So I think it's a good thing also for Bruno to stay a little bit

07:23during trainings in one position.

07:25Then he's winning a lot of things.

07:30In your journey as a player, you lose some things,

07:32you win some things.

07:34I want Bruno near the ball.

07:36So that is really important for our team.

07:38But last year I felt like sometimes we need Bruno near the goal.

07:42We have now players with different characteristics

07:44that can cope with that.

07:48So we'll try to arrange game by game

07:51the best players in the best positions.

07:54Ruben, could you just clarify something you said about Sesko earlier?

07:58You said that he'd been working or been doing sessions to get fit.

08:01Is that like an extra thing?

08:03No, he does the same as the other players.

08:06What I'm saying is that he's one guy that stays here,

08:09have lunch and then goes to the medical department,

08:12do the stretching.

08:14So the guy is always thinking about football.

08:16He's really obsessed about that.

08:18And that is a good thing because you don't have to think about that aspect

08:22with that young guy.

08:23I don't need to tell Ben, Ben, this is Manchester United,

08:27a lot of pressure, you have to perform,

08:29you need to be ready for the physicality,

08:32we need to be ready for every game is like do or die.

08:38With that guy, I have not that concern.

08:40I have the opposite, enjoy a little bit.

08:43You said earlier that he was asking you questions.

08:46Do you like that?

08:47I really like that, especially when he's smart questions.

08:52So he's listening and he wants to perform.

08:57So that is really good.

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