Rúben Amorim will give Matthijs de Ligt what he begged Manchester United for last month

Rúben Amorim will give Matthijs de Ligt something he begged for just after he signed for Manchester United.

Manchester United are moving swiftly to secure Rúben Amorim as their new Head Coach after parting ways with Erik ten Hag.

The decision to sack Ten Hag came in the wake of United’s 2-1 loss to West Ham, where a controversial penalty, converted by Jarrad Bowen, sealed the defeat.

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Following the official announcement of Ten Hag’s departure on Monday morning, speculation ran high about his replacement. By evening, reports suggested that Sporting CP’s Ruben Amorim was United’s preferred candidate, with terms reportedly finalised.

However, as the club finalise Amorim’s exit terms with Sporting, Ruud van Nistelrooy has taken charge of the team, defeating Leicester City 5-2 in his first match as interim boss.

De Ligt’s plea to United

Since his senior debut in 2016, Matthijs de Ligt has played under eight managers, meaning he has lacked a consistent leader in his side.

He has worked with Peter Bosz, Marcel Keizer, Ten Hag, Maurizio Sarri, Andrea Pirlo, Massimiliano Allegri, Julian Nagelsmann, and Thomas Tuchel. Amorim is set to become the ninth permanent coach.

De Ligt would like to change this. Speaking last month during the discussion of Ten Hag’s sacking, the 25-year-old revealed that he sincerely hopes to have a consistent coach to train under in the future.

“To be fair, like, it’s quite funny because in my career, I never had a trainer for longer than one and a half seasons,” De Ligt explained.

“So this is something that, yeah, I hope I can have now that I have a trainer or a manager who stays longer with me as a player so you can grow more together also.”

Amorim will answer this plea

Amorim, at 39, is an appointment United hope will become a long-term fix at Old Trafford after a decade of inconsistency and frequent restarts.

Almost all great centre-backs have become so due to the consistency of having a single trainer overseeing their team, with modern examples of those under Sir Alex Ferguson, Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, and Pep Guardiola at Manchester City aplenty.

Amorim is signing a two-and-a-half-year contract with the Reds, meaning if he sees this out, he will eclipse De Ligt’s 1.5-season curse with coaches.

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