The second phase of United players also arrived at the Carrington training<\/a> complex later in the same week, with Amorim putting his players through their paces.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Amorim arrived as United manager<\/a> during the 2024-25 Premier League campaign after the former Sporting CP head coach replaced Erik ten Hag<\/a> at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n The 40-year-old Portuguese coach faced a mammoth task when he succeeded Erik ten Hag last November and oversaw a dysfunctional campaign for the Red Devils.<\/p>\n However, Amorim has now been afforded the opportunity to work closely with his United<\/a> players and put down the foundation for his long-term vision at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Man Utd transfer news & rumours as Bryan Mbeumo and Brentford saga takes most dramatic turn with \u2018latest\u2019 development<\/a><\/p>\n The second week of Manchester United\u2019s pre-season training at Carrington<\/a> kicked off ahead of the forthcoming tour of Europe and the United States this summer.<\/p>\n United will face Leeds United at the Strawberry Arena in Solna on Saturday before leaving Sweden and heading to the States for their next three pre-season matches.<\/p>\n Ruben Amorim knows United have a tough run of Premier League fixtures<\/a> to open the 2025-26 season at Old Trafford and his pre-season preparations are vital.<\/p>\n Adam Marshall revealed on Manchester United\u2019s official website<\/a> what happened in the second week of pre-season training, including the different drills that took place.<\/p>\n Following a \u201cround-robin tournament\u201d to end the training, Amorim addressed his United players and told them \u201cthank you\u201d before they returned to the main building.<\/p>\n Adam Marshall said that Amorim\u2019s actions showed how much \u201cthis was another\u201d sign that showed how much he \u2018valued\u2019 the session ahead of United\u2019s pre-season tour.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Man Utd suffered their very own \u2018\u00a350m Dele Alli moment\u2019 with perfect \u00a375m opportunity that should have been banked<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ruben Amorim is building essential morale with Man Utd players ahead of the summer tour and the 2025-26 Premier League season<\/p>\n There is no denying that the Red Devils require a much-needed momentum boost after their woeful 2024-25 season, which saw Erik ten Hag sacked as United manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n United endured their worst finish in the Premier League era after the Red Devils could only limp to a 15th-place position in the table under Amorim.<\/p>\n The Red Devils also fell short of salvaging a part of their season with major silverware, with United losing the Europa League final to Tottenham<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n But Amorim is the man backed by Ineos<\/a> and Sir Jim Ratcliffe<\/a> to turn the ship around at United and the ex-Sporting CP boss is establishing vital rapport with his players.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim sent a clear-cut message to every single Manchester United player who reported to pre-season training under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,1532,85],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","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=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Manchester](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2224127431-1-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Manchester United\/Manchester UnitedRuben Amorim made sure that he addressed his Man Utd players before he left pre-season training at Carrington<\/p>\n