{"id":266979,"date":"2025-11-06T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:32:07","slug":"man-uniteds-amorim-forget-the-past-after-ronaldos-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/266979\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United’s Amorim: ‘Forget the past’ after Ronaldo’s worry"},"content":{"rendered":"

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Ruben Amorim has responded to Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>‘s claim that the Manchester United<\/a> boss is being asked to perform “miracles” at Old Trafford by telling the Portuguese great that he’s too focused on the past.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo this week launched fresh criticism of the club he represented in two spells between 2003 and 2022 in an interview with Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Al Nassr<\/a> forward suggested it will take a miracle for Amorim to turn United around<\/a> and questioned whether some of his players have the right mental attitude.<\/p>\n

Asked about the comments at a news conference on Thursday, Amorim said Ronaldo was stuck in the past while he is targeting a brighter future.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim responded to Cristiano Ronaldo’s worry about Manchester United.\u00a0Photo by Gareth Copley\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Of course, he knows he has a huge impact with everything he says,” Amorim said.<\/p>\n

“What we need to focus on is the future. We know that as a club we made a lot of mistakes in the past but we are trying to change that.<\/p>\n

“Let’s not focus on what happened, let’s focus on what we are doing now. We are doing that, changing a lot of things in the structure, the way we do things, the way we want the players to behave.<\/p>\n

“We are doing that and we are improving so let’s focus on the way we are doing things. We are improving, let’s continue and forget the past.”<\/p>\n

United can extend their unbeaten run to five when they visit Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

– Cristiano Ronaldo: ‘Lionel Messi better than me? I disagree’
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Despite a positive month of results, Amorim has admitted he’s concerned that his team are conceding too many goals.<\/p>\n

United have shipped more goals — 16 — than any other side in the top half of the table and have kept just one clean sheet this season.<\/p>\n

“It’s a problem,” Amorim said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a team thing. We need to defend better. We need to be more aggressive. When we have full energy with every ball, we defend better.<\/p>\n

“Everything is connected. We cannot suffer the amount of goals we are suffering. That is a thing that we need to improve.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Ruben Amorim has responded to Cristiano Ronaldo‘s claim that the Manchester United boss is being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-266979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}