Continuing to highlight the importance of long-term planning, Amorim has said that while he and sporting director Wilcox do not always see eye-to-eye when it comes to potential additions to the squad, the Portuguese insisted United will not make a January signing unless both men have sanctioned the move.
“Sometimes I have one idea, Jason and the board have another idea,” Amorim said in his pre-match press conference ahead of United’s home game against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Tuesday. “Every decision we make, we need to reach a common ground.
“That is really important because you don’t need to make everything for the manager because the manager can change and [then] you need to change everything. But you also need to understand the manager understands the way of playing. If you don’t reach common ground the player would not come, so we just try to do that. We try to make all of the assessments of how they live, how they train, their characteristics.
“I think we did well [with our summer recruitment], but I think they have more to give. If you talk about (Matheus) Cunha, for example, Ayden (Heaven) is a young guy, but Cunha and Bryan (Mbeumo) are from here, from our league, so it is easier for them to perform.”