Amorim on recruitment process at United maybe needing improvement

Manchester United's new boss Ruben Amorim on the recruitment process at the club possibly needing improvement Carrington, Manchester, UK

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00:00The recruitment at Manchester United in the last decade has been quite mixed.

00:06To say the least, it's been very much like that.

00:08Do you expect to have an influence on the players that come into this football club

00:13or will that be left to other departments?

00:15I think it has to be all together.

00:18Because if you are a coach that came in here and already chose the players,

00:24it could be wrong.

00:25Because this is a football club that will be here for a long time.

00:29And you as a coach, you don't know that.

00:31So you have to work everybody together.

00:35And for that, we have to improve the process of recruitment.

00:38The data, the profile of the players that we want.

00:43But I have to have a strong position on that because I'm the coach.

00:48I know how to play.

00:50So I think it's all together.

00:52But in the final word, as you can say, it should be the manager.

00:56Not just because it's your right, but it is your responsibility.

01:00Because in the end, the results, they will ask you about the results, is to me.

01:06So I think it's all together, improve the process of recruitment.

01:10I have to understand the league.

01:14That is important.

01:16And then when everything is aligned, all the ideas, everybody's on the same page,

01:21we can buy and sell players.

01:23Has that been agreed then, that you have the final sign-off?

01:28I'm saying here the final.

01:30It's not the final, the final.

01:33But I have a great responsibility when we choose players.

01:36Because this is something that should be done in this way.

01:41I'm the manager, the head coach.

01:43So I have to choose the players.