During his 31 Premier League games as Manchester United manager, Ruben Amorim was left with a points average of 1.00. The Portuguese got 14 months in the job with these statistics, when he took over the reins at checkered AC Milan in the summer, he quickly went out and admitted mistakes he made at United. After ten games, the Portuguese shows that he has learned.
Okay, it’s not possible to compare Serie A and the Premier League, the world’s toughest league, but still. After ten Serie A games, Amorim stands with a points average of 2.10. Talk about a different journey! The big win came in Saturday’s 3-1 win against reigning Serie A champion and city rival Inter Milan.
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After the game, Amorim does its part to place the expectations among the supporters of “now we are in the title fight” at a realistic level.
“It’s important to win these games to make the fans understand that things don’t change in a month, two months or a year. We have to follow this path. You can’t just hire a new coach, change all the players and put together a new squad every time a new coach comes in,” Amorim begins according to Gazzetta dello Sport. With a clear message to both the management of AC Milan and Manchester United.
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-It takes time to achieve that. Along the way, we will need magical nights like this, but we also have to go through difficult periods like the one on Wednesday (2-4 loss against Bologna). I think the situation will not change from one day to the next. It is simply not possible. I don’t know when it will be possible to win the Scudetto, but we have to be very honest with the fans. And I know that people are not stupid. They understand and know very well where this team and this club are in the development, Amorim concludes.
