Manchester United offers a very small transfer window to Ruben Amorim

Manchester United's trip to Ipswich next Sunday (5:30 p.m.) will be particularly scrutinized. This will be Manchester United's first ever match with Ruven Amorim at the helm. After more than two years of showing a moribund face under Erik ten Hag, the English club hopes to emerge from its torpor once and for all. The Portuguese's press conference on Friday, his first at the head of the Red Devils, will also serve as first lessons.

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The former coach of Sporting CP has already expressed the wish to play in a 3-4-3, like what he did with the Leões, with the success that we know of. He will undoubtedly need new elements to put his ideas in place, which will require some adjustments during the next transfer window. However, management has already warned, it will be necessary to play it tight. Spending has exploded in recent years. On transfers alone, the club spent €700m under Ten Hag. Whatever it takes is over.

Amorim will have a small budget at his disposal

To reduce its lifestyle by several million euros per month, Manchester United even laid off 250 employees and ended the contract which linked it to Sir Alex Ferguson for a role of ambassador and manager (he was a director on the board of 'administration). Despite the outcry, the Mancunian club has not found other means to comply with the financial fair play of the Premier League. The winter transfer window is also impacted, there will be no room for maneuver.

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According to the latest information from Manchester Evening NewsAmorim will have a budget of €30m (£25m) in January. Of course, certain sales would make it possible to inflate this rather low budget for an English club of the stature of Manchester United. We think for example of the 7 undesirables of the new Portuguese coach (Evans, Lindelof, Maguire, Casemiro, Malacia, Eriksen and Antony) but not everyone will leave, and this will remain insufficient to recruit a player like Viktor Gyökeres, valued at 100 M € by Sporting CP.