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Shortlist revealed for Man Unt top job | 03:50Twenty years ago it was Jose Mourinho . Now it is Ruben Amorim who appears set to move from Portugal to the Premier League with a reputation as Europe ’s next coaching superstar .
that a United delegation will travel to Lisbon to close the deal after Sporting’s Portuguese cup quarter-final at home to Nacional on Tuesday evening.Amorim is 39, two years younger than Mourinho when he left Porto and took over a Chelsea side poised to dominate English football. As long ago as 2017 when Amorim confirmed his intention to become a coach, he told Tribuna Expresso: “I don’t know if I am going to be good or bad, but that is what I am going to be.” He had just quit playing aged 32 after injuries blighted a fine career. Amorim has made his name as a coach at Sporting, but he starred as a player for their Lisbon rivals Benfica, the club he has supported from birth.
The following season, Benfica were overtaken by Villas-Boas’s Porto and Amorim struggled with a knee injury. “It is funny, because as a player I had lots of problems with Jesus, albeit other players did too, because Jesus is a coach who wears you out,” Amorim recalled. Amorim really began his steep ascent upon joining Braga, managing their B team before being handed the first-team reins in December 2019.
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