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Man Utd star speaks out on Ruben Amorim exit to insist he is 'right man for us'

Man Utd star speaks out on Ruben Amorim exit to insist he is 'right man for us'

Daily Mirror22-05-2025

Manchester United's nightmare season reached its nadir in Bilbao on Wednesday night, as they fell to defeat against Tottenham in the Europa League final, the match Ruben Amorim had been building towards to save their miserable campaign
Diogo Dalot has joined the long queue of Manchester United players urging the Old Trafford board - and fans - to keep faith in Ruben Amorim. Dalot came on as a very late substitute in the Europa League final, a game that put a big dent in Amorim's reputation.
But skipper Bruno Fernandes immediately threw his weight behind the manager and his countryman did the same.

Dalot said: 'I'm 100 percent sure that he's the right man for us because I see it every day, the standards that he has, what he demands from us, the view that he has for the club, for the players, for the coaching staff.'

Luke Shaw also made a passionate defence of Amorim but went on to suggest the players should now be questioning whether or not they are good enough to be representing United. And Dalot, 26, went down the same path, urging his team-mates to use the summer break to evaluate their contributions to the club's cause.
He said: 'We still have one game to play but in the time that we're gonna be away, we need to think about what we should do better and as soon as the season starts, we need to change things.
'I think the demands from each other have to be a lot higher. Ultimately, what you do every day will determine if you win things in the long term. So that is the standard of this club. And if we don't do that every single day, it's gonna be really hard for you to put this club back on top.'
But Dalot is also not the first United player to question whether or not the squad has got the psychological strength to establish themselves as a winning force.
Dalot said: 'Results will determine a lot of things in football, as you know. When you don't win games, you always tend to go towards more negativity than positivity.

'The reality is that this season we didn't get the results that we wanted. Sometimes we deserved better, sometimes pretty much a lot of times we didn't. We need to find a way to win games and we need to find that winning mentality.
'That will make us feel more confident and as soon as we start having that consistency, I think things will start going up.
'If we keep this rollercoaster of results, of emotions, of standards, it will be really hard.
'But this club will never die … but if we want to be a part of the team that is going to put Man United back on top, we need to do much, much better.'
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