Utd boss Ruben Amorim on contracts and support of club's owners

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Utd boss Ruben Amorim on contracts and support of club's owners  07/11/2025 shot 06/11/2025 embargoed  Carrington Training centre, Manchester, UK

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00:00Hi Ruben, Casemiro started the four games, you've been unbeaten.

00:06Would you be in favour of him? He's got an option on his one year.

00:10Would you be in favour of him staying long term at the club?

00:13Yeah, we don't know what is going to happen.

00:16My goal is to continue to count with Casemiro, with Harry Maguire,

00:20that he has the same problem.

00:23I don't know what is going to happen, let's focus on this season.

00:27I'm really happy with Casemiro, it's really important.

00:30I'm really happy with Harry, but I know what you guys are asking.

00:34Let's focus on this season and then we'll see in the next season.

00:38Hi Ruben, I know you've got a long term plan to get this club back to where you want it to be,

00:43but half time against Forest when you were winning you were up to second in the Premier League table.

00:47It probably shows how tight it is at the top.

00:50Given that and you're not playing European football,

00:52do you feel there's an opportunity for United to do something special this season

00:56to maybe exceed people's expectations and maybe jump ahead in that long term plan?

01:01What I think is that we can win any game.

01:05If we have this opportunity, let's make everything to win.

01:09Let's try to address every detail to try to win every game.

01:13I don't want to talk about the new goal.

01:16You said yourself that everything is so close, is everything so close up and everything so close down.

01:24Three weeks can change everything.

01:25It changed everything three weeks.

01:28We had a completely different conversation four weeks ago.

01:32So let's focus on the next game, what we can do.

01:34I also agree that when you are one down, playing away, feeling in control of the game,

01:42knowing that you can be in second place near the top,

01:46we could start that second half in a different way.

01:51That I can agree.

01:52And the players felt that and we talk about that during the week.

01:56So let's focus just winning Tottenham.

01:59Can we win Tottenham?

02:00I think we can.

02:01Let's do everything to win the next one.

02:05Hi, Ruben.

02:06Has Benjamin Sesco started kind of how you'd expect him to start,

02:10have not played in the Premier League before?

02:12It seems to be for us that Bruno got a bit frustrated with him.

02:15He had a good chance when the ball came over.

02:18But are you quite relaxed with the way he's going about his form at the moment?

02:22Yeah, I'm relaxed.

02:24He's not relaxed.

02:25What I mean is that I understand how things are in football.

02:31And he's going to struggle.

02:32That is normal.

02:33He has no experience here.

02:35And then the first impact when everyone says that you are so good,

02:40you are the next big thing.

02:41And you hear about that with Sesco.

02:45And then you come to one club that is the hardest club.

02:49If you don't perform every week,

02:51you are going to hear a lot of things from club legends,

02:55for pundits, for the media.

02:57And sometimes they are right.

02:58To have the ability to understand that is normal

03:01and still maintain your level of confidence is really hard for a young kid.

03:06And especially for a young kid that is a control freak,

03:09wants to control everything.

03:11And he's not going to control everything.

03:12So I know, and I say that, when I start training with Ben,

03:17he has more potential than I was thinking.

03:20He's going to struggle.

03:21And we need to understand how he likes to play also to put in our ideas.

03:26So everything, I think, I'm quite relaxed with that.

03:29He's going to be our striker for a long term.

03:32But he's going to have these struggles and these bumps during the ride.

03:39And that is a normal thing in football.

03:42Steven, I mean, Chris.

03:43Hi, Ruben.

03:43It was Gary Neville who said Benjamin Sesco looked miles off it.

03:47I'm sure you've seen the court.

03:49You're laughing, yeah.

03:50What did you think in the former players when they make these comments?

03:54Do you think it affects the players when they say these things in the media?

03:56Of course, nobody likes to hear, but he struggles a little bit.

04:02And that is a fact.

04:03So let's embrace that.

04:05It's not personal.

04:06It's not nothing.

04:07That's what I tried to explain to the players.

04:11That is not personal.

04:13It's an opinion that is going to change.

04:15In three weeks, everything is going.

04:17What is true today, in three weeks, could be everything a lie.

04:21So, of course, it's hard to hear.

04:24But my advice to Ben is you are going to get used.

04:29And then it's going to be natural.

04:30It's going to be like your Monday here.

04:33So that is part of the process.

04:35And we are going to help him.

04:37And we are going to protect Ben because he works really hard.

04:41And he wants to succeed.

04:43So he's going to succeed.

04:45Hi, Ruben.

04:46You spoke last week about how hard losing the final to Tottenham Hitchie last season.

04:51They obviously won the game.

04:54You lost the game.

04:55They changed coach.

04:56This club didn't change coach.

04:59Does that tell you the fine margins in this industry and the importance of a club backing their manager?

05:05It's completely different.

05:07I said already, I'm really lucky to be here.

05:14And I know that.

05:15That is also important for someone to understand how lucky I am to have this opportunity.

05:26If you see the game, I think we deserve to win.

05:29In the end, it doesn't matter.

05:30It's hard to see a coach that wins the European Cup to go away and the other guys stay.

05:39But sometimes it's the difference of maybe in the future to win more important titles.

05:46So that's, I think, what Manchester United is thinking.

05:49Let's give time to the coach and see what's happening.

05:52And then we'll see.

05:53So I just want to say about that question that I'm really lucky to have the support that I have in this club.

05:59Last question for Ian.

06:01Hi, Ruben.

06:02Bruno Fernandes is obviously a hugely important player for this club.

06:05Has been for years.

06:06And his appearance record is incredible.

06:08I think he's missed two games through injury and all his time at United.

06:12He's obviously a little older than he was when he first came here.

06:14Is there a point at which you think about rotating him, resting him?

06:18He's obviously so important and he's 31 now.

06:21Or do you just sort of monitor him and give him those days off you were talking about if he needs them?

06:25We have one game per week.

06:28He's always available.

06:30He's really hard.

06:31I said already we have good things on that to play just one game.

06:35But then there's a lot of players that should be playing, should be dividing the minutes,

06:40should be fighting for their places in a different way.

06:43But we don't have the space.

06:45So I'm not thinking about now the rotation of the players in the future.

06:49Yes, it's something that Bruno needs to understand.

06:53If you have in this league, if you want to win every game that you are part with European games,

07:00he's going to have to rotate.

07:03So good question.

07:04Just for Bruno to put in his head that maybe next year he's going to be in rotation in the team.

07:12Thanks, everyone.

07:13Thank you very much.

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