Article by Maria Olteanu – Published on Friday, August 29, 2025 20:48 / Updated on Friday, August 29, 20:56
Coach Ruben Amorim (40 years old) fails to recover the ship that sinks at Manchester United. The Premier League giant lost in the cup right in front of a fourth league team. The situation led to surprising statements from the Portuguese successor of Erik Ten Hag, dismissed last year by the “red devils”.
Ruben Amorim's team was eliminated from the Grimsby League Cup, a fourth league band, after a bizarre series of breaking blows (12-11). Thus, United's spectacular return from 0-2 to 2-2 was in vain, and the Portuguese is under a higher pressure after the extremely weak end of last season.
Amorim shocks: “Sometimes I hate my players”
On Saturday, Manchester United will play home with Burnley in the Premier League. After two stages, Burnley is above in the ranking than Manchester United: Ten place compared to sixteen.
In the press conference, Amorim acknowledged: “Sometimes I hate my players. And sometimes I want to give up. Everything is very sad. After such a defeat, I will continue to have such reactions. But sometimes I love my players, then I want to defend them. I am. Sometimes I think: I would like to stay here for another 20 years!”he said, quoted by sportnieuws.nl.
The coach also had a message for Kobbie Mainoo, the 20 -year -old midfielder who exploded three years ago and has already reached England's national team.
“He has to fight for his place,” said Amorim. “I want to stay, but they have to fight. I understand that the players are disappointed when they do not get minutes. But they are all in the same boat. You have to fight for your place. You get a chance to assert yourself. So you have to give everything throughout the week.”
In short, it was a sincere press conference from Amorim, but not one to reassure Manchester United fans. Immediately after the match with Grimsby, he was desperate. “We were completely lost. There was only one team on the field, and that was Grimsby,” he concluded in front of Sky Sports.
According to the Portuguese, his team transmitted wrong signals. “It is not about the fact that I came back, but about how we started. Without intensity, without pressure. Everything we train has disappeared. It is difficult to explain.”
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