Ineos have identified two Man Utd stars to ‘thrive’ with Ruben Amorim as head coach

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Ruben Amorim will make as debut as Manchester United manager on November 24 against Ipswich and the expectations are high mainly due to one reason.

The current Man Utd squad is underperforming greatly in the context of the quality in it and that is partly why Erik ten Hag was fired, he just couldn’t get a tune out of the players.

It was confirmed later because the team started humming as soon as Ruud van Nistelrooy came in. Amad was unlocked as an undroppable, Manuel Ugarte is finding form, and so is Bruno Fernandes.

Ineos now hope that Ruben Amorim’s arrival can do the same for two more members of the squad who have been plagued by form and injury worries under past managers.

Ruben Amorim is the tonic needed for Man Utd duo

Ruben Amorim has already promised an identity to Man Utd fans and corrected Ten Hag’s big mistake without taking any training sessions at the time of writing.

He has made all the right noises so far and his record of making the players at his disposal better was in clear at Sporting, many of whom are linked with United now.

He needs to replicate that at Old Trafford, where the solution to far too many problems has been signing more players regardless of fit and profile.

The Telegraph reports that Ineos have already identified this issue which is why Amorim is likely to work with a smaller budget at the start.

The board is hopeful he can unlock the talent already available to him that has been nowhere near the levels expected of them when they arrived.

One’s Rasmus Hojlund, who has mainly been feeding off scraps as the team often looks like it plays with ten men and Hojlund up top.

He still cracked double figures in goals last season but Amorim’s work with Viktor Gyokeres promises great things for Hojlund at United.

The second is Mason Mount, who has been pretty much a walking injury problem during his time at the club but his fit in Amorim’s style looks neat.

His intelligence off the ball, knowledge of pressing triggers, and the ability to ghost into the box to finish chances look tailor-made to flourish in a 3-4-3 as one of the two midfielders.

Rasmus Hojlund and Mason Mount just the beginning

Mount and Hojlund look like a good place to start for Amorim, especially Mount, who has been a complete disappointment, largely due to factors outside of his control.

Hojlund can still point to glimpses of potential and a streak of goalscoring last season but Mount had a Fernandes-shaped block in front of him in a 4-2-3-1.

However, Amorim’s job won’t stop there. He was famous at Sporting for tinkering with players’ positions as per their skill set to maximise their strengths and minimise their weaknesses.

Somebody like Antony, who looks like a washed asset at this point, could thrive as the left-wingback which is a defensive position in name only under Amorim.

Alejandro Garnacho doesn’t have a clear path into the first XI in a 3-4-3 but that is precisely the factor that should accelerate his development and force him to develop into more than just a single-minded inside forward who shoots after cutting inside from the left wing.

Joshua Zirkzee is the new and expensive project that Amorim needs to get something out of because so far, what United have been asking of him directly conflicts with what he’s good at.

The list is long which is why Ineos’ assertion that the current team has levels to go before talk of any reinforcement begins is the correct one.

After all, there’s a reason why Amorim is United’s first “head coach” in the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era instead of being a “manager”. His first job is to improve the team already at his disposal.