Rather than defend his current employers, Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim accepted that the club had “made a lot of mistakes in the past” when faced with Cristiano Ronaldo’s scathing criticism.
Not for the first time, Ronaldo delivered a blunt appraisal of his former employers. Amorim was largely spared his compatriot’s ire—“He’s [doing] his best. What’s he going to do? Miracles? Miracles [are] impossible”—but the wider hierarchy was not up to Ronaldo’s standards.
“Manchester United, right now, they don’t have a structure,” he sniffed. “I hope that changes in the future.”
Amorim was naturally presented with these comments during his prematch press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Tottenham Hotspur. “Of course, he knows he has huge impact on everything he says,” the United head coach began.
“But what we need to focus on is in future. We know as a club we made a lot of mistakes in the past. We are trying to change that. Let’s not focus on what happened. We need to focus on the future. Let’s focus on the way we are doing things.
“We are changing a lot of things, the structure, the way we want the players to behave, we are improving. Let’s forget a little bit the past.”
