Rúben Amorim said Sporting’s 4-1 rout of Manchester City was a dream way to sign off in his last home game as head coach but warned that when taking over Manchester United ­he cannot be as 'defensive' as the ­Portuguese champions. 'We cannot transport one reality to another,' he said. 'United cannot play the way we play, they cannot be so defensive. Of course it’s good to beat City. But I’ll be living in a different world, we’ll have to start from a different point'.

• Manchester United cannot play the way Sporting do, warns Rúben Amorim

• Sporting thrash Manchester City in coach’s home farewell
• Amorim to take over at Old Trafford on 11 November

Rúben Amorim said Sporting’s 4-1 rout of Manchester City was a dream way to sign off in his last home game as head coach but warned that when taking over Manchester United ­he cannot be as “defensive” as the ­Portuguese champions.

After Phil Foden opened the scoring, Viktor Gyökeres’s hat-trick and a Maximiliano Araújo strike handed City a first Champions League loss of the season. Yet Amorim was clear the result will mean nothing when he starts at United next week.

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A majority of Manchester United fans favour a new stadium rather than the redevelopment of Old Trafford, a survey has found. Fifty-two per cent of more than 50,000 season-ticket holders, members and executive club members prefer a new ground, compared with 31% who support the redevelopment of the existing stadium.

Seventeen per cent were undecided on the best option, which is being looked at by the owners in conjunction with the Old Trafford regeneration taskforce, which includes former United defender Gary Neville, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, and the World Athletics president, Lord Coe.

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On Tuesday the Portuguese side host City, Hugo Viana’s next employer, as a partnership nears its end

In Portugal they speak of Hugo Viana working “in the shadows”, a man eager to perform his duties away from the spotlight. He will be especially pleased that his good friend Rúben Amorim will take the headlines when Viana’s current and future employers meet in the Champions League on Tuesday night. Over the past six years he has built his reputation as one of Europe’s best young sporting directors by helping to make his first club, Sporting, a force once more.

Sporting had not won the league title for 16 seasons when Viana arrived with only six months’ experience at Belenenses. Under Viana’s direction, Sporting have bested both Porto and Benfica twice to finish top – his first title coming in his third season at the club. The former Newcastle midfielder cannot claim all the credit for the turnaround but it was his decision to appoint his former teammate Amorim, paying €10m for a head coach who had started the season managing Braga B in the third tier.

• New United manager set for last home game at Sporting
• Amorim says win could lead to ‘difficult’ expectations

The incoming Manchester United manager, Rúben Amorim, has claimed supporters will think he is the “new Sir Alex Ferguson” if his current side, Sporting, beat Manchester City in the Champions League on Tuesday and said that could make expectations around his impact at Old Trafford “difficult”.

City’s visit to the Estádio José Alvalade is Amorim’s last home game as Sporting head coach before taking over at United on Monday week. The 39-year-old’s opening match as Erik ten Hag’s successor is against Ipswich on 24 November and he will take his new team to the Etihad Stadium on 15 December for a first derby against City.

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If Ruud van Nistelrooy was supposed to wash the nostalgia out of the Manchester United system then perhaps that was achieved, though maybe not as intended. If Rúben Amorim was distracted from preparing Sporting for Manchester City on Tuesday, he will be more aware of a United squad bereft of confidence. United’s first 60 minutes against Chelsea saw them fumble pathetically for creativity. Not even the presence of one of the club’s greatest strikers has lifted the finishing quality in a group low on goals. Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford were both bereft of touch and instinct; substitute Joshua Zirkzee’s signing remains a mystery. There was something of Van Nistelrooy in Rasmus Højlund winning Bruno Fernandes’s penalty, and the goalscorer’s knee slide towards the tunnel at the Stretford End. But there was to be no Ferguson-era ecstatic denouement. This United don’t do them. Van Nistelrooy has two games remaining until United seek the progressive future postponed by mistakenly retaining Erik ten Hag. John Brewin

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Manchester United and Chelsea demonstrate that boredom is a key part of the sport and an element of its beauty

Well, something definitely happened there. But what exactly? There is an affectionate joke about good, punchy Australian sports writing, which basically involves saying Here’s The Thing, right, then spelling out exactly what The Thing is in 800 brutally frank words, pounding The Thing into submission, shaking hands with The Thing, then, ideally, going off for a quick drink with The Thing.

What was the thing here? Trapped energy. Drift. Ennui. A good goal by Moisés Caicedo. The death-football of late-stage capitalism. Casemiro lying down a lot, often to surprisingly good defensive effect.

• ‘It is easier to get rid of a manager than 15 players’
• Midfielder scored from spot in 1-1 draw with Chelsea

Bruno Fernandes has revealed he apologised to Erik ten Hag for any part he may have played in the Dutchman’s sacking as the manager.

Speaking on Sunday after Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea at Old Trafford, the club captain said: “It is easier to get rid of a manager than 15 players. I spoke to the manager and apologised to him. I was disappointed he has gone and I tried to help him. I wasn’t scoring goals, we are not scoring goals and I feel responsible.”

But at least there’s a new bounce and hopes of a brighter future under Rúben Amorim after recent ‘misery’

“I’m excited for it because it’s new, but then you’re always excited for a new manager, aren’t you?” says Siobhan grinning. She and her sister Shauna are heading to their perches in Old Trafford’s North Stand with a spring in their steps. A sort of not-quite-but-soon new head coach bounce, if you will.

With the ink now dry on Rúben Amorim’s contract, thoughts, imaginations even, of Manchester United supporters are future-facing. A future, everyone hopes, that will be significantly brighter than the present.

It has come to feel like a collector’s item – a Manchester United goal in the Premier League. When it came, Bruno Fernandes scoring from the penalty spot on 70 minutes, the celebrations were suitably wild. Especially from Ruud van Nistelrooy, the United interim manager who is keeping the dugout warm for Rúben Amorim.

Van Nistelrooy pumped his fists, he ran down the line, he jumped up and he punched the air. It was like the old days when he led the United line, and the release of emotion was understandable because there had been plenty of frustration about the team’s performance.

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We interrupt the Manchester United news cycle to bring you an association football match from Old Trafford: United v Chelsea in the Premier League. The focus will be on United, as it tends to be when they’ve just sacked another manager, but it’s probably a bigger game for Chelsea. A win would take them fourth in the table*, five points behind the leaders Liverpool, and set them up for an even bigger game at home to Arsenal next weekend.

All logic says Chelsea won’t be title contenders until next season at the earliest, although this isn’t a club that cares much for logic. And they have Cole Palmer, whose imagination and brilliance are making even the most level-headed neutral get carried away.

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Ruud van Nistelrooy is not expecting an easy ride from his former Manchester United teammates in the media during his spell as interim manager.

The voices of former players such as Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Rio Ferdinand, members of the all-conquering Sir Alex Ferguson side that also featured Van Nistelrooy, have become prominent in the discussion around United in recent years.

Old Trafford’s muddled succession planning has seen a host of talents flop but the Sporting manager shares that outsider glow

Forget the details, forget the noise. Forget the specifics. Imagine you run a big club on a losing streak. You are looking to appoint a new manager. What do you want, ideally? You want a young manager on the way up, someone fresh, with vision and drive and personality. Someone who could perhaps still be leading the club a decade later.

At the very highest level, most managerial careers are relatively short. The notion of a “proven winner” is a consoling but meaningless shorthand. There is no such thing; everything is fluid, everything is contingent; there is always a context; every career has an arc.

Rúben Amorim spoke to journalists before his move to Manchester United to replace Erik ten Hag. Amorim said he initially wanted to move to Old Trafford from Sporting at the end of the season but United told him it wasn't possible. He said: 'It's not the first time that I have had the clause paid by a club and it's not the second time and it reached the fifth year and I had to make a choice.'

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The incoming head coach at Old Trafford only has to look at past decade to see direction of club that has lurched from one manager to another

At two and a half years, Rúben Amorim’s contract as Manchester United’s manager is no resounding this-is-our-man-for-the-long-term deal from Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s football department.

It may be a sagacious move by those charged with executing the best move for the club. In versing themselves in the 20-times record champions’ recent history, Dan Ashworth, the sporting director, and Omar Berrada, the chief executive, will have noted how, since Sir Alex Ferguson departed in May 2013, none of his five permanent successors have lasted three years.

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Dwight Yorke has been named head coach of Trinidad and Tobago, aiming to lead the home islands back to the World Cup.

The appointment comes after Yorke was controversially sacked from his only other coaching job in Australia with Macarthur, which he led to the national cup title in 2022 before leaving last year. Yorke later won a settlement case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the club over the dismissal.

After so many false starts since Alex Ferguson left, the new man has the CV and optics to reshape this sclerotic club

Live, die, repeat. There is a familiar feeling of pathos in watching the latest Manchester United manager loom into view, carpetbag in hand, squaring those fragile shoulders, another face, another four-year plan, all these brave hopeful souls, like men in hats and coats heading off to Flanders.

It should be said United have been impressively efficient in reaching this point. Unsticking a premium European manager from a Champions League club in mid-season is no simple task. The announcement of Rúben Amorim as head-coach-in-waiting comes four days on from the sacking of Erik ten Hag. After the Weekend at Bernie’s absurdity of Ten Hag’s new contract, after the four-month zombie-stumble into the current season that has made Amorim’s own task so much harder, this has at least been surgical and decisive.

The incoming manager has much to do and establishing a plan quickly will be a great test of his competence

Last season Erik ten Hag used 14 centre-back combinations thanks to injuries and form but he never seemed particularly happy with any of them. His former Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt was brought in over the summer with a view to partnering Lisandro Martínez, another who knew Ten Hag from Amsterdam, but he has underwhelmed. The problems were shown up in Porto when United drew 3-3, resulting in the manager changing the pair for Harry Maguire and the veteran Jonny Evans in a crucial match at Aston Villa. Rúben Amorim will also have Victor Lindelöf and Casemiro to increase options, which will be advantageous if he wants to change to his usual back three. Whatever happens, faith needs to be shown in those earmarked as first choice.

• Amorim to leave Sporting and start on 11 November
• He signs contract to 2027 with extra year’s option

Manchester United have announced that Rúben Amorim is to take over as their head coach on 11 November, at the start of the international break. The 39-year-old is joining from Sporting, where he won two league titles and two league cups in four full seasons.

“Manchester United is delighted to announce the appointment of Rúben Amorim as head coach of the men’s first team, subject to work visa requirements,” the club said. “He has signed a contract until June 2027 with a club option of an additional year. He will join Manchester United on Monday 11 November once he has fulfilled his obligations with Sporting CP.