Ruben Amorim reveals his ‘biggest concern’ for next season and one Man Utd talent proved it with ‘problem’ that he had

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Ruben Amorim has suggested that one of his first-team Manchester United players highlighted his way of “thinking” for the 2025-26 campaign at Old Trafford.

The 40-year-old Manchester United manager is in the tail end of the 2024-25 campaign after he replaced Erik ten Hag in the Old Trafford dugout in 2024.

Erik ten Hag was sacked as United manager last October after a disastrous start to the Premier League season and the Red Devils landed Amorim from Sporting CP.

Ruud van Nistelrooy, who was assistant manager under Ten Hag, was temporarily installed as United interim manager before Amorim’s arrival at Old Trafford.

United have been unable to bounce back in the Premier League under Amorim and the Red Devils’ league form has continued to regress in the 2024-25 season.

The Red Devils languish in 16th place in the Premier League table and United now have only two league matches remaining in their woeful campaign.

United have won only 10 Premier League matches from 36 fixtures and the Red Devils have failed to pick up a single victory in their last five league contests.

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Ruben Amorim singles out Man Utd star Leny Yoro for one key reason ahead of the Premier League match against Chelsea

The Red Devils fell to their 17th Premier League defeat of the season last Sunday after West Ham comfortably defeated United 2-0 at Old Trafford.

Leny Yoro was deployed in the three-man backline of Ruben Amorim’s tactical system for United and the Frenchman saw out the first half last weekend.

However, Amorim was left with a real headache in the Old Trafford dugout after Leny Yoro went down with a foot injury early in the second half of the match.

The 19-year-old defender was attended to on the pitch by the United medical team before Amorim was forced to withdraw Yoro and replace him with Harry Maguire.

Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Amorim admitted that Yoro’s injury highlighted a major “concern” about how he builds his squad for next season.

“Leny was the same as Matta [Matthijs de Ligt], [when he got injured at Brentford], I was thinking about the next year, the squad, if we need another guy. If he’s a long injury,” he said on Thursday, as per Manchester United’s official website.

“That is my concern. It’s not about just the final, of course, I want every player fit. Leny Yoro was in his foot, he had that problem [in pre-season], so I was so concerned about the next season, the next squad, the way we build up the squad.

“That was my biggest concern. The rest? We’ll be ready for the final, no matter what.”

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Ruben Amorim breaks his silence on Man Utd injuries amid the Premier League and Europa League runs

Amorim insisted that he will not play any United player who is carrying a potential injury against Chelsea ahead of the Europa League final next Wednesday.

“Again, it’s going to be a massive part, this game to the next one,” he said.

“So, we need to perform and they need to perform. That is the important thing.

“Then we are going to, the same way, if there is a player that can get an injury [and is] not recovered for this game, so [it] will put him [at] risk for the final, he will not play.

“But if it’s not that situation, we will have a lot of time to recover. And we cannot spend eight days, nine days without a game.

“That is a bad thing for the final, so I think they will be prepared for the game.”

The Red Devils will travel to Stamford Bridge on Friday evening to face Chelsea in the Premier League before United’s 2025 Europa League final tie against Tottenham.