Ruben Amorim warned about Man Utd 'pressure' by former boss | OneFootball

New Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has been warned by a predecessor about the intense scrutiny that awaits him when he takes up his position at Old Trafford next week.

Amorim was quickly chosen as the permanent replacement for Erik ten Hag and will start work on Monday 11 November after tying up loose ends at current club Sporting CP.

The Portuguese coach will become the sixth permanent United appointment since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 after almost 27 years at the helm. David Moyes was the first to try and fill the boots left by the legendary boss and knows how pressurised delivering success for one of the world's biggest clubs is.

"Every newspaper in the world will have been carrying the story of Erik [ten Hag] this week. It would've been all over, because there's so many Manchester United supporters worldwide," Moyes explained on the latest episode of the BBC 's Premier League Review podcast.

"It carries an awful lot of pressure. It carries an awful lot of media who are always looking for things on Manchester United."

David Moyes knows first-hand the pressure of Man Utd / Matthew Lewis/GettyImages

Moyes himself encountered issues back in 2013 when he brought some of his own coaching staff to the club with him, but was still largely using Ferguson's ageing squad after struggling to recruit in the transfer market that first summer.

The Scot expects Amorim to make changes, most likely in terms of the playing style after honing a 3-4-3 system at Sporting that has never really been seen before at United.

"It would be quite a big change and to change those things take a longer time," Moyes said.

"I look at Arsene Wenger when he took over from George Graham. It took time for Wenger to change Arsenal into the style that they played compared to George Graham.

"So, it might take a little bit of time for him to settle in. But, if he gets given the time by the board, his statistics in what he's doing at the moment shows up very good in Portugal."