Ruben Amorim exclusive: Manchester United boss says summer window is 'going to be crucial'

5 April 2025, 19:38 | Updated: 6 April 2025, 15:01

Sky Sports News' senior reporter Melissa Reddy sits down with Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim ahead of Sunday's Manchester derby at Old Trafford, live on Sky Sports, as the Portuguese says this summer's transfer window is going to be "crucial".

Ruben, there were so many positives against Nottingham Forest, but Man Utd conspired against themselves with two bad habits, which are conceding first and then being really poor in the final third. How do you go about trying to fix those problems?

"Conceding first, if you look at our season, we improve in that department because we are more focused. But every time we disconnect a little bit - and you can look at the goal against Nottingham, it was a disconnection. There is a corner, we have players for the second ball and then you suffer a goal and then the game changes. That is something that we work on every day in every exercise.

"No matter if it is a passing drill, they need to be focused. So we try that. And then in the offence, we try to put the players in that position a lot of the time during training. But we need time for that also. We sometimes need a little bit of luck because when we are shooting and it's not the goalkeeper [denying us], it's the defending. Of course, we cannot hide behind that. But I also understand because I was a football player, I'm a coach, I understand that sometimes you just need a shot to score. In this moment, we need to do a lot of things."

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