{"id":387274,"date":"2026-01-04T12:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:06:08","slug":"man-uniteds-amorim-refuses-to-clarify-time-and-money-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/387274\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United’s Amorim refuses to clarify ‘time and money’ claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruben Amorim has declined to expand on his claim that it will take “time and money” to make his system work at Manchester United<\/a> in the same news conference in which he admitted he is not optimistic the club will make signings in January.<\/p>\n

Amorim said on Friday that there are “no conversations” about bringing new players to Old Trafford this month.<\/p>\n

It came on the back of the Portuguese coach saying on Dec. 24 that “if we have to play a perfect 3-4-3, we need to spend a lot of money and we need time.”<\/p>\n

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He continued: “I’m starting to understand that that is not going to happen. So, maybe I have to adapt.”<\/p>\n

Asked on Friday to clarify the quote from Christmas Eve, Amorim repeatedly rejected the opportunity.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to talk about that, I just focus on the Leeds game,” said the United boss.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he regretted making the statement, Amorim replied: “No, no, no. But I don’t want to talk about it.”<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim declined to expand on his claim that it will take “time and money” to make his system work at Manchester United.\u00a0Carl Recine\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Pushed again about whether his reluctance to explain meant the situation with recruitment in the January window had changed, Amorim said: “I don’t want to talk about that.”<\/p>\n

Amorim is short of options ahead of the trip to Leeds United<\/a> with eight first-team players missing because of injuries and international call-ups.<\/p>\n

Fringe players Joshua Zirkzee<\/a> and Kobbie Mainoo<\/a> have been linked with moves away in January, but Amorim insists he cannot reduce his numbers even further.<\/p>\n

“If you look at our squad, I think it’s impossible for someone to leave,” he said. “They need to talk with [director of football] Jason [Wilcox].”<\/p>\n

United spent \u00a3200 million ($269m) to improve their forward line in the summer with the arrival of Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>, Matheus Cunha<\/a> and Benjamin Sesko<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has led to an improvement in front of goal with only Arsenal<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a> scoring more in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The investment in the attack has meant other areas of the squad have been overlooked.<\/p>\n

There are plans to bring in central midfielders and wing-backs in the summer, but Amorim wants to see more from the players he already has at his disposal.<\/p>\n

“We could be better with the squad that we have defending and not suffering goals like we suffered in the last minute of the first half against Wolves,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That can change the dynamic of the game. Of course we are scoring more because we have different characteristics. It helps us to be more creative.<\/p>\n

“But if you look at the way we defend, it’s not just the defenders. It’s defending as a team. It’s an urgency. I know that we could be better in that department without any investment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim has declined to expand on his claim that it will take “time and money” to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-387274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}