Amorim on improving players, Garnacho form and facing Crystal Palace (Full Presser)

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Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim ahead of their Premier League clash with Crystal Palace Bucharest, Romania

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00:00How much is he improving under you and how important is it that he's going to be, you

00:18know, you keep him and he's going to be important to you?

00:21I think he's not improving under me.

00:24He changed right away since that game from City.

00:28The way he understands things and understands that I just want to help him, I just want

00:32to win games.

00:35And he changed in everything.

00:37The approach when he talks with him, the way he recovers, he understands that sometimes

00:42I'm a different coach, that I'm demanding in my way and sometimes it's hard the first

00:48impact because he's a different kind of coach and he understands that he's never in a bad

00:55way.

00:56It's always for him, but I'm a different person.

01:00And I think all the merit is from Garnaciu and he's improving and we want to continue

01:05to improve with Garnaciu again today.

01:09He understood the position, the moments of playing inside, outside, the connection with

01:14Aloha, I think he's improving a lot.

01:15Just on Coventry again, you've played really well tonight but it's his first start in the

01:22last three games, I think he was sucked on in two games prior to that.

01:26Did you feel maybe that Tolkien's contract has been kicked up recently and also, of course,

01:32that the uncertainty over his future with the club might have affected his form as much

01:35as what you mentioned before about playing in that big of a role?

01:38I don't think it's the contract.

01:42He has everybody in England sees him as a very, very good player.

01:48He played in the Europa Championship final.

01:53So I think it's more the position.

01:56Then he's not comfortable because before he was always playing and now sometimes plays

02:02and sometimes don't play, he's not comfortable.

02:05Maybe there is something to do with that.

02:08But I think the key point is the position.

02:10It's different for him, demands a lot from him and today, in that position, I feel more

02:16happy to play, simple as that.

02:19I don't look about just the movements, the way he touched the ball, I feel it just watching

02:26him.

02:27He was so happy on the pitch and that is important for me because if they are happy, they play

02:32better.

02:33So I think he can change position.

02:34We mentioned the cost financial situation a few times and that needs to raise money

02:35to reinvest and ultimately, as they are, selling academy players is a way to do it.

02:37But how do you balance that with keeping those players as well and getting the best out of

02:56them?

02:57Because we've seen the impact Kovac and Alejandro have had tonight, they've both been linked

02:58with being available.

02:59This window, is there going to have to be some difficult decisions there or do you want

03:00to build a team around Jean-Jacques Broglie?

03:04That part is true, but I want players like Kovac and Garnaccio.

03:10The focus is that we have to improve our academy and you have to bring more because that is

03:17something that all the clubs in England have to take advantage of, the players that came

03:24from academy.

03:26To play, to fill the shirt and also to sell.

03:29So our focus is to bring more.

03:32The rest, I just want to prepare with both of them in the next game.

03:37Reuben, Lucho came back from training yesterday, how close is he to serving when we expect

03:44to see him?

03:45It will take a little bit more time.

03:49I think he needs to train more, to spend more time with the teammates, playing like normal,

03:57even small side games, not just working alone.

04:01He stays there to make a different type of work, so he's going to get together with the

04:09team when we arrive and start from there.

04:12When I feel that is the right moment, we will start with some minutes in the games.

04:17Simon.

04:18On the Sunday team, what's the update on Malmsteen Evans at the moment?

04:23And with Malasia, he's obviously had a terrible injury, he's taking time to come back, he's

04:28taking over half time again today.

04:31Do you think it would be beneficial for him to go and get some minutes elsewhere perhaps

04:35for the rest of the season?

04:36We will see.

04:37What I know is that he's really hard on Malasia.

04:39Long time without playing, then it's hard to make a lot of games and a player like him

04:45is a full back and sometimes in this system, he played in national team outside and inside,

04:54sometimes it's hard for him because he's not so offensive and he can play like one

05:00of the three defenders if we have more possession and more control of the games.

05:05So it's a really difficult context for him, but he's our player and we are going to help him.

05:11I'll leave it there.

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