Ruben Amorim sheds light on Man Utd January transfer plans with negative outlook

Ruben Amorim is unsure of Manchester United’s January transfer window plans despite the market reopening in three weeks’ time. The newly-appointed boss insists he is focusing on winning matches and improving his current squad in training.

Amorim has inherited a large squad from former boss Erik ten Hag. United have been linked with several signings ahead of the winter window, but the 39-year-old is focused entirely on the Red Devils’ crunch Europa League clash with Viktoria Plzen.

“There’s a lot at stake at this moment,” said Amorim. “We have a lot to do, a lot of games, we don’t have time to train, the players have contracts, so we have to see.

“It’s a new idea, with a new coach. Sometimes I have one idea in the first week and in the second week I have a different idea.

“Then we have to see what happens, so everything is so close, with all the games during the opening of the window in January. So I really don’t know.

“I’m just focused on improving the team – I cannot think further than the next game. Like any other team, when the window is open, we can do something, but our focus is to win games. We have to have this feeling of winning and we have to start tomorrow.”

The United boss, who has overseen two wins and two defeats in five games, hinted that more physicality could be added to the squad, insisting that his team is currently on the smaller side.

“I’m really focused to see my players and to understand my players. That is one of the problems of the club,” Amorim added. “We have to focus on what we have, we have to focus on the academy and to have a clear profile of the players.

“So it’s a lot of details you have to manage. You can see at set-pieces, sometimes you look at our team and we are a small team compared to others.

“Every detail counts and we have to be very clear in the profiles, arrange all the processes and go to that phase of buying and selling players.

“But we have international players, good players, and we need time to teach them our ideas and then we will see, because this is a massive club. If we don’t win, the coach goes, the player goes, so you have to know that.

“We have to improve as a team, we have to arrange a lot of things in our club before thinking just in terms of buying or selling players. There’s a lot to do, so let’s focus on improving our players, improving our academy and then see.”