by It is on Tuesday on Tuesday in the Endavour Health Performance Center from Chicago Fire and the thermometer has already reached 90f. The legendary Vista of the Windy City is on the flawless Azure sky and offers a good backdrop when Manchester United players prepare for another training session. The mood is happy. New 71 million pounds that Bryan Mbumo signed was aligned, and the fence leaves shortly when the teammates are mutually upset to give the Cameroon International its “bumps”.
If things had turned out a little differently and Bruno Fernandes accepted an offer of £ 1 million a week to join Al Hilal to the Saudi professional league, United would have prepared for a critical season without her captain and talisman. But when the rondos begin, Fernandes is in front and in the middle – and does not take a prisoner.
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Youngster Bendito Mantato can do it well to nest from Fernandes from Fernandes, and seconds later the Portuguese midfielder waves Mathematics Cunha in the middle after the Brazilian has lost property. It did not take long for Fernand and United’s new £ 62.5 million from wolves to gel – on and next to the field – and gives a playful moment between the couples.
Cunha tried to argue that he hadn’t lost the ball in the Rondo, but Fernandes had nothing of it. And when Cunha was finally moved in the middle
We have already been here with United: a new pre -season, a fresh feeling of optimism, a few new obligations and the conversation about greater togetherness, only if things are splintering, since the results of the nosed, the dissatisfaction, the dissatisfaction in the changing room roots and familiar grips and complaints before the manager pays with his job.
Bruno Fernandes rejected a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia to lead the reconstruction of United under Ruben Amorim – Getty Images/Ash Donelon
It probably helps to explain why, after the sobering, humiliating experiences of the worst campaign of the club, nobody has been carried away for 51 years when United took 15th place in the Premier League and lost a final of the Europa League to the Europa League in Tottenham, her Big Six Borb case. In truth, the Ligabian and a poor goal in 38 games told only half of the story.
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Manager Erik Ten HAG was released only 116 days after the extension of his contract, the sports director Dan Asshworth only lasted five months in the role, and the staff was disappointed as co -owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, which implemented a brutal cost reduction that claimed 450 jobs. The atmosphere in the club became almost technical.
Ruben, a charismatic young Portuguese manager, came into this chaos, which imported his 3-4-2-1 system in the toughest domestic competition in Europe, even though he inherited a squad of self-confidence and wings packed. Seven victories from 27 games of the Premier League followed with Amorim, and claimed that he could manage the worst United team in history.
The importance of this summer hardly has to be overrated, and the changes and adjustments were as culturally as it was tactical. Amorim immediately stopped his stand by freely freely found Marcus Rashford, who has been borrowed since then – Alejandro Garnacho, Jadon Sancho, Antony and Tyrell Malacia. Nobody was included in the US pre-season tour and the outcome is now threatened.
Marcus Rashford’s exile and subsequent departure has come to symbolize the cultural break under Amorim – Getty Images/Koji Watanabe
Amorim wants a squad in which everyone pulls in the same direction – and pulls her weight with it. Luke Shaw, the longest reigning player of United, claimed this week that “there is no straggler in this group” and that the squad “probably came closest”, whom he met in the club in his 11 years. Diogo Dalot repeated these feelings. “We are now creating a group that is fighting for each other,” said the defender. “Obviously there is still a long way in front of you, but you can immediately see some signs that the team fights a little more and has more intensity.”
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Patrick Dorgu arrived from Lecce in January and recorded a significant change in the atmosphere last month. “I came in a difficult moment and I think the team improves a lot in the previous season,” said defender Denmark. “I think it’s more of a collective than a collective than [about] an individual. “
The first hour of the 2-1 victory against West Ham in New Jersey and the 4-1-struggle of Bournemouth in Chicago on Thursday pointed to a team that worked harder for each other and played with more self-confidence, cohesion and aggression. Everton are her last opponents of the Premier League Summer Series in Atlanta on Sunday.
In view of the soil you have to make out, it would not have been a surprise that Amorim worked on the training area in the morning in the morning and in the afternoon, but the Portuguese actually re -elected the strenuous double sessions, which were an integral part of earlier tours of ten HAG. The guard against injuries may be part of Amorim’s thinking, but the training often wrapped in the early afternoon, which gives the players time to relax, relax and enjoy the company’s society.
The “Rec room” with table tennis, basketball hoops and a darts board in the Waldorf Astoria in Chicago, where United is located, there is a few floors below where the players live in the hotel. But the true bond has developed more naturally: about meals, in the gym, during the trip to baseball and for the walks to the beach lake Michigan or in the shops.
Amorim usually completed his own gym session when players start to take up breakfast, usually from 7:30 a.m., and the manager’s style was very much in treating the players as adults. There is structure, yes, but not up to the nipple point, which stands strongly with the strict, prescribed regime in contrast to ten HAG money, and an unpleasant approach to punctuality and processes.
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In Bangkok in the first summer three years ago, for example, the lifts in the Hotel Team were notoriously slow and the staff found the stairwells that were littered with players, who in some cases take 40 steps in some cases to get to meals on time.
There was no attempt to prevail with Amorim. He made his demands early and expects the players to meet them. “He is very clear about his messages that they want to be part of the team – or they can’t be here,” said Dalot. “If you want to be united in Manchester, you have to meet some standards. If you are unable to achieve it, it is not a place for you.”
At the end of last season, each player received a tailor -made fitness program that he can meet during his vacation, with some of the running exercises not too unlike the old beep tests. The performance staff quickly became clear when the squad reported for the previous season and the players were judged that they had taken these plans very seriously.
While the fitness roads can be intense and running as shooting exercises, a large part of the work on the grass amorim has commissioned the monitoring of tactical walk through the cameras of the club media. Louis van Gaal, the former manager of United, was sometimes accused of overloading information, but Dalot says that Amorim focuses on two or three clear information points.
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“We always do the walk-through and some tactical works,” said Dalot. “He is very interested in the fact that we can be prepared. But at the same time the message is really clear. There is not too much information. Everyone knows two or three things he has to do during the game. As soon as we have got used to it, I think we can reach a point, hopefully where we can almost play with closed eyes. We already know where everyone is on the field.”
Amorim was encouraged by what he has seen in the pre -season so far. “If you look at the same players who are playing now, it looks like another team and that’s a good sign,” said the manager.
What was striking against West Ham and Bournemouth was how much more aggressive was pressed and attacked. The club has tried to strengthen the attack this summer, but there are doubts as to whether the midfield is mobile and sporty enough for Amorim’s system. It still looks briefly on a high -quality No. 6.
However, there are positive. Shaw and Mason Mount had both injury -plagued seasons, but looked refreshed and re -energized, and the mighty, sporty Dorgu was one of the outstanding actors in the United States.
United show signs of greater togetherness on and next to the field, says Patrick Dorgu (left) – AP/Nam Y. Huh
“I think we will hopefully see an United team that attacks more, this is on the front foot that tries to dominate games – every game,” said Dorgu. “I have the feeling that we arrive there, we play more than a team, we run for each other, we just have to fight to win games. You can see it on the field that we play as a more proactive team. We run more for each other with the press.”
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Cunha quickly settled, although Mbumo missed the Bournemouth game as a precaution, he will make his debut against Everton and Amorim made RB Leipzig striker Benjamin Sesko in his squad. In other developments, Lisandro Martinez, Joshua Zirkzee and Andre Onana are now in easy training again when they increase their recovery of injuries.
Fernandes took up last season where he stopped last season, and Dalot said that his compatriots’ decision to remain had a galvanizing effect on the group. “I don’t think there is a better way to start a season than to stay your captain and believe that this can go in the right direction,” he said. “It sends a clear message to everyone we have to believe. We have to work really hard to set Manchester [United] Back to the place it deserves. “
Since Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea face three of his opening games and Liverpool in Anfield in their first game after the international break from October, United was given a tough start.
Amorim knows that his team has to run the ground and that this newly discovered feeling of togetherness and the purpose of an early examination will be exposed to if the results are not planned.
