1-1 draw against Leeds<\/a> at Elland Road, the Portuguese also pointedly told the scouting department and sporting director \u201cto do their job\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cI noticed that you receive selective information about everything,\u201d he said after Matheus Cunha\u2019s goal cancelled out Brenden Aaronson\u2019s opener, keeping United sixth in the table. \u201cI came here to be the manager of Manchester United \u2013 not to be the coach of Manchester United. That is clear. I know my name is not [Thomas] Tuchel, [Jos\u00e9] Mourinho or [Antonio] Conte but I\u2019m the manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be like this for 18 months or until the board decide to change. I\u2019m not going to quit, I will do my job until another guy is coming here to replace me.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked about transfer policy, he said: \u201cEvery department, the scouting department, the sporting director, needs to do their job. I will do mine for 18 months and then we move on.\u201d He added: \u201cIf people cannot handle the Gary Nevilles and the criticisms of everything, we need to change the club\u201d, before abruptly ending the press conference.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old\u2019s official job title is, in fact, head coach. But his comments strongly suggest he feels he is owed a greater say in transfer policy as his relationship with Jason Wilcox, the director of football, become increasingly strained. It has also been reported that United\u2019s head of recruitment, Christopher Vivell, has questioned his tactics.<\/p>\n
Amorim\u2019s outburst comes after he dropped strong hints in the run-up to the Leeds game that there were tensions over transfer strategy and his style of play. United are dealing with an injury crisis and the absence of key players to the Africa Cup of Nations. But despite the transfer window opening this week, Amorim said on Friday that \u201cwe have no conversation at this moment to change the squad\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim has insisted he is Manchester United\u2019s manager, not just the coach, and said that he may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-352422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}