Undoubtedly the most sought-after manager in Europe, Ruben Amorim should quickly head to Manchester to take the United bench. The 39-year-old technical player is targeted by Paris Saint-Germain and Luis Campos in the summer of 2022 before Christophe Galtier, who is the favorite candidate of the English and Portuguese media to take over from the Dutchman Erik ten Hag, who was sacked last weekend after another defeat for the Reds. Devils in the Premier League. The English club will have to pay a sum of around 10 million euros if it wants to include Ruben Amorim, who has been at Sporting Portugal for more than four years.
“I'm not going to talk about my future. I'm very proud to be Lisbon coach,” the main interested party replied on Monday as his team played a League Cup match against Nacional on Tuesday night. However, according to the specialist press across the channel, Ruben Amorim has given the green light to join Manchester United. According to the Portuguese daily newspaper A Bola, envoys from Man U are expected to arrive in Lisbon on Tuesday in order to reach an agreement with their counterparts from Sporting.
A former midfielder for Benfica and the Portuguese national team (14 caps), Ruben Amorim has been on an upward trajectory with Sporting Portugal since the spring of 2020. In four full seasons, he has won the tournament twice (2021 and 2024), a first for the club. For more than twenty years, in addition to two League Cups (2021 and 2022) and the Portuguese Super Cup (2021). Pending a solution, Manchester United appointed Ruud van Nistelrooy, the club's former glory, as interim coach.
