Manchester United have a new manager in town, and they are very optimistic that Ruben Amorim, one of the most touted up-and-coming managers in world football, can be the guy to right a ship that has gone awfully wayward since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson.
Perhaps what makes Amorim so enticing as the next Man United manager is the fact that he relishes the task of fixing the rot that has ailed the Red Devils for so many years.
Amorim even rejected other offers from easier projects for the allure and responsibility of being the guy who etches his name in the history books and does what legends Ralf Rangnick, Louis van Gaal, and Jose Mourinho could not by truly turning Manchester United around.
There’s a belief that Amorim will attract top young talents to Man United, as he did at a club with fewer resources in Sporting CP, starting with those very same players he turned into stars in Lisbon,
Unfortunately, Portuguese outlet Record indicates that Manchester United may already need to take one of those names off the table, as Sporting CP striker Viktor Gyokeres is reportedly uninterested in following Ruben Amorim to Old Trafford next summer.
Gyokeres has been linked to Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, and a number of other top clubs, with the Gunners largely seen as the favorites to land him, given their deperate need for a goal-scorer.
Already at 16 goals in 10 Liga NOS starts for Sporting this season, Gyokeres would be the best finisher on Manchester United right now, but it makes sense why the 26-year-old wouldn’t want to follow Amorim’s lead to the club.
Manchester United already signed a top young striker in each of the last two transfer windows, bringing in Joshua Zirkzee from Serie A’s Bologna this summer after already inking Rasmus Hojlund on a big-money transfer from Bergamo in the previous year.
Gyokeres honestly looks better than Zirkzee on paper because he scores, but Man United can’t move Zirkzee that quickly. And Hojlund has all-around athleticism, explosiveness, and upside that neither of the others do.
Amorim may have hoped for Gyokeres, and he may still have a shot at the Swedish international. But right now, it doesn’t look like it’s realistic to expect the free-scoring forward at Old Trafford in 2025.
