{"id":227220,"date":"2026-01-04T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227220\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:48:08","slug":"im-here-to-be-manager-not-coach-ruben-amorim-challenges-man-utd-chiefs-but-plans-to-leave-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/227220\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m here to be manager, not coach&#8217; &#8211; Ruben Amorim challenges Man Utd chiefs but plans to leave in 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked if he still feels he has the confidence of the United hierarchy, Amorim said: &#8220;To start with that, I noticed that you received selective information about everything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I came here to be the manager of Manchester United, not to be the coach of Manchester United. That is clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know that my name is not [Thomas] Tuchel, it&#8217;s not [Antonio] Conte, it&#8217;s not [Jose] Mourinho, but I&#8217;m the manager of Manchester United. And it&#8217;s going to be like this for 18 months or when the board decides to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to quit. I will do my job until another guy is coming here to replace me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While United officials have tried to create a picture of harmony, their words are being tested by Amorim, who was named as &#8216;head coach&#8217; when the club announced his arrival as the successor of Erik ten Hag \u2013 who was the manager \u2013 on 1 November 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amorim still believes United are moving in the right direction despite a run of one win five games and three in 11 following his only sequence of wins at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It remains to be seen if his comments have any immediate impact, although it is difficult to see how the current situation is sustainable over an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amorim is due to speak to the media again on Tuesday lunchtime, before his side&#8217;s trip to Burnley the following night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When asked if he still feels he has the confidence of the United hierarchy, Amorim said: &#8220;To start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-227220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}