United’s Amorim on special game with Liverpool and Ratcliffe backing (Full Presser)

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Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim on their trip to Liverpool and having the backing of co-owner Jim Ratcliffe Carrington, Manchester, UK

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00:00George told me before.

00:05Hey guys, let's start with Dan.

00:07Thank you, George. Afternoon, Rupert.

00:09I know you always talk about how much in contact you are with the leadership here,

00:13the likes of Sir Jim, Jason.

00:15Sir Jim had some really positive comments for you over the break,

00:18really backing you. How do you feel when you see those type of comments?

00:22He tells me all the time, sometimes with a message after games.

00:28But you know, I know, and Jim knows that football is not like that.

00:33The most important thing is the next game.

00:36You cannot control, even with owners, you cannot control the next day in football.

00:41So I know that, but it's really good to hear that.

00:49Also because of the noise, but he tells me and Omar and Jason tell me that all the time.

00:56In terms of your vision for this club, does it help when they say that?

01:04Because they've also said or Omar said that it didn't start the way that everybody expected,

01:11including you.

01:12And nobody knows how long it's going to take.

01:14Nobody knows what happens on Sunday.

01:17Does it help that you know that they believe in what you are trying to do?

01:24First of all, I can feel it.

01:26It's not just that thing that people talk, but I feel it in every day.

01:32And again, sometimes the pressure that I put on the team on myself is so much bigger than them.

01:38I know that is going to take a while, but I don't want to think like that.

01:41I said that last year.

01:44But of course, again, it's really good to hear that.

01:48I think it helps also our fans to understand that the leadership understand that it's going to take a while.

01:55But at the same moment, I don't like that because we'll give a feeling that we have time to work things out.

02:04So I don't want that feeling here in our club.

02:08Again, the most important thing is the next game.

02:11It's good to feel the support, but we need to prove in football,

02:14and especially in the big clubs, that in every weekend we are ready to win games.

02:20Hi, Ruben.

02:21This will be the 100th match at Anfield between Liverpool and Manchester United.

02:26It's a game with an awful lot of history.

02:29Your history, I think your first visit there as a player maybe could have been better,

02:33but your most recent was possibly one of your highlights here so far?

02:37Yeah, I remember we played well.

02:42It was a draw.

02:43I was really upset at the end of the game because we proved in that day that we can compete against any opponent.

02:53I know that it's special for our club.

02:55I know that they are fighting all the time for the titles, the number of titles.

02:59I know what it means to the fans.

03:03But again, it's one game that we need to prove again that we are playing better.

03:09I think we are playing better.

03:11We need to do better in both boxes.

03:15So it's one more game that we need to win.

03:19Hi, Ruben.

03:20The results and the performances against the so-called bigger teams have been quite good since you got here.

03:25What do you think the difference has been in those games compared to some of the other games?

03:30Maybe.

03:31Maybe.

03:32I don't know, but maybe the expectations.

03:34When you have to win and the response to winning, it's so much harder to play like that.

03:40That's why when you play in big clubs, you need to win every match, especially when people are expecting you to win.

03:48And we have some difficulties sometimes to deal with that when people and you guys expect not Manchester United to win that game.

04:00Maybe it's easier for the players to perform and we need to change that.

04:05But to change that, we need to have confidence to win more games, to have more points, to feel more free to play the game.

04:11So I think that is the main reason.

04:16Hi, Ruben.

04:17I think there are seven players who didn't train us.

04:20Some of them were rested, had additional days off.

04:22But which players do you know won't be available for the weekend's game?

04:27Licha?

04:28It's near, but it's almost returning to the trainings with the team.

04:36Mas Raui, I don't know.

04:39The rest of the guys, the national team, they are ready.

04:42But if you saw the games, some players play in Japan.

04:48So we need to be careful to give more time.

04:50Diogo didn't play the last game he was here.

04:52Bruno played 62 minutes.

04:54We gave one more day.

04:56We try to balance everything to have everyone ready, but they are ready.

04:59The guys are returning from national teams.

05:01They are ready to play.

05:03Hi, Ruben.

05:06When your goalkeeper puts in a performance like that on debut, the United fans are calling

05:11him the new Peter Schmeich after less than 90 minutes.

05:16Does that make him impossible to drop even for a big game like this?

05:19No, nothing is impossible.

05:22You have to prove during the week, but of course he did a great job.

05:26It is possible that he is going to start the game.

05:29The first impression in this club is really important.

05:35To maintain the level is even more important and really difficult.

05:40So he is not Schmeichel yet.

05:43He is a young guy with talent.

05:46He showed a lot of composure and the fans liked it.

05:51But again, we need to prove that it is in the past.

05:53We need to prove it in the next game.

05:56Ruben, Sir Jim was quite critical of the academy in his interview last week.

06:00He said that standards had slipped.

06:02You have been here nearly a year now.

06:04What is your assessment of the health of the United Academy?

06:08I think we can always improve.

06:11I am not the best guy because I am here for a year

06:14and our results are not being so good.

06:17So I am not going to be the guy that is going to say

06:21that the academy is not in good shape.

06:23What I know is that, especially nowadays with the fair play,

06:27with the feeling of the club, the academy is really important.

06:30We need to take care of that.

06:32We need also to give the right conditions for all the people that we have here

06:36to do a better job because sometimes it is not just you are doing a bad job,

06:41but we need to see what kind of conditions they have to do a great job.

06:45We are paying attention to that.

06:47We are bringing people.

06:49We are always in contact with Travis, with all the kids,

06:55trying to bring the right kids for the training,

06:58trying to make that relationship with the academy.

07:02So I think if you look at our club, we are trying to improve.

07:06We have a lot to improve, not just in the academy,

07:09but in all aspects of our club.

07:12Last question in this section for Richard.

07:14Hi Ruben, you talked earlier about how Liverpool and United are competing

07:19for the same number of titles and the two clubs are always going to be compared with each other.

07:23When you have a season like last season when Liverpool finish so far ahead of United,

07:32how do you address that and what becomes a realistic aim in terms of closing the gap to them?

07:38That I don't know. Sometimes things change really fast.

07:41But if you see the history of both clubs,

07:44you can feel that sometimes you have one club that is winning, winning, winning,

07:48and the other club is having a bad moment.

07:51That happened with Liverpool when Manchester United was winning everything.

07:54And that happened with Manchester United when Liverpool was winning everything.

07:58So we just have to acknowledge that to be really honest with the fans.

08:05But we can win any game.

08:07So if we think about just winning the next game,

08:10that is the most important thing.

08:11We can win the next game.

08:14If we are going to fight and to be at the same level of Liverpool in the future,

08:22that is the idea.

08:23I don't know how long it is going to take.

08:25I will get it!

08:28I will take!

08:31To film!

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