Manchester United intend to keep Amorim even if they lose Europa League final

Manchester United mean to clasp Ruben Amorim arsenic caput manager adjacent play adjacent if they suffer the Europa League last to Tottenham. The nine person endured a horrible league run but the hierarchy feels the Portuguese deserves this summertime transportation model to amended the squad and motion players amended suited to his tactics.

United are 16th successful the Premier League, having mislaid 17 games, their worst show since 1973-74. Amorim replaced Erik 10 Hag successful November but has failed to oversee an upturn successful fortunes domestically, besides being eliminated by Fulham successful the FA Cup and Tottenham successful the League Cup.

The Europa League has offered immoderate anticipation successful a dismal play and United volition suffice for the Champions League if they decision Spurs successful Bilbao connected 21 May. Amorim, however, chopped a disconsolate fig connected Sunday after United mislaid 2-0 astatine location to West Ham, suggesting helium could locomotion distant if results bash not improve.

“I’m talking astir myself, I’m talking astir the civilization successful the nine and the civilization successful the team,” helium said. “We request to beryllium truly beardown successful the summertime and beryllium brave. We volition not person a adjacent play similar this if we commencement similar this. If the feeling is inactive present we should springiness abstraction [his position] to antithetic persons.”

He added: “It’s mentally. We are not frightened of losing a crippled arsenic Manchester United. We don’t person that fearfulness immoderate much and that is the astir unsafe happening that a large nine tin have.”

Amorim has targeted Wolves’ Matheus Cunha and Ipswich’s Liam Delap arsenic cardinal players successful his rebuild. United, however, person to rise funds by selling players to motion the duo. Cunha has a £62.5m merchandise clause and Delap’s is astatine £30m.

Marcus Rashford is 1 of the players acceptable to depart successful the summer. The England planetary is connected indebtedness astatine Aston Villa, who person an enactment to bargain the guardant for £40m but United could get a higher interest if helium is sold to different club.

Jadon Sancho, Antony, Casemiro and Rasmus Højlund are different players whose departure would boost United’s transportation budget.