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‘Verbal’ agreement reached with Rubén Amorim, with start date, exit fee and new salary, all revealed

‘Verbal’ agreement reached with Rubén Amorim, with start date, exit fee and new salary, all revealed

Sporting CP manager Ruben Amorim has verbally agreed to become Manchester United’s next manager, and several reports have shed light on whether he will be installed in time to face Chelsea, how much Manchester United will have to pay and how much he will earn.

Man Utd sacked Erik ten Hag on Monday morningwith the club dissatisfied with results in both the Premier League and Europa League. The daily mail He also claimed that a third reason behind the ax swing was that there were very few signs of improvement.

The Red Devils have He quickly installed Sporting coach Rubén Amorim as his number one target.. Talks have been opened between the clubs and the 39-year-old is open to success ten witches at Old Trafford.

And according to the journalist Ben JacobsAmorim has “verbally agreed to become manchester united manager.’ Jacobs added when posting in X: ‘Sources in Portugal say amorim He has already said yes to Man Utd.

Transfer guru Fabrizio Romano echoed that claim without outright declaring that a deal is in place. Also leading to Roman wrote: “Rubén Amorim has given the initial green light to Man United. “He really wants to join the club, he accepts the project and the negotiated conditions.”

Sky Germany Florian Plettenberg added his opinion, stating: “Understand, the most important details of the contract between Ruben Amorim and Manchester United have already been agreed. Only a few details remain. Therefore, a complete agreement is not an obstacle.”

Amorim’s contract at Sporting contains a three-tier release clause: Portuguese clubs must pay €30 million, most European clubs must pay €20 million and seven of the biggest teams must pay the highest fee. small of 10 million euros.

portuguese exit One Ball They claim that Man Utd fall into the third category, meaning they will only have to pay €10m to release Amorim from his contract in Lisbon. The other six clubs in that category are Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Manchester City and Juventus.

talkSPORT claimed Amorim could triple his salary if he completes the change. He currently pockets around £2.15m a year in Lisbon.

Elsewhere, the guardian Jaime Jackson revealed that Amorim is currently “unlikely” to be ready in time for Manchester United’s Premier League clash against Chelsea on Sunday.

United face Leicester in the EFL Cup on Wednesday before attention turns to Chelsea. According to Jackson, interim coach Ruud van Nistelrooy is likely to remain in charge of both games.

Manchester United legends react to Ten Hag sacking

Rio Ferdinand has singled out Liverpool in explaining why Manchester United sacked Erik ten Hag, although Gary Neville believes Tottenham were the catalyst.

speaking in his youtube channel Immediately after the announcement, Ferdinand believes that the 3-0 home defeat at the hands of Liverpool in the third week of play virtually ended Ten Hag’s tenure.

In Ferdinand’s mind, Man Utd and Ten Hag “never recovered” from that attack.

“Am I surprised? No,” declared Fernando. “They kept the man in charge, the season starts, I actually thought we were starting to see some new signs in the first two or three games, and then Liverpool beat us and we never recovered.

“It was like a boxer was hit and knocked down in the third round and never recovered and was knocked out, knocked down, in every round until the twelfth round.

“And finally, we are here. The fight was canceled in the last round by the manager and I think now we are going to go in a new direction.”

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Gary Neville also weighed in on the explosive news while speaking to Sky Sports News.

Instead, the former right-back pointed to Man Utd’s 3-0 defeat to Tottenham on September 29 as the point at which Ten Hag’s fate was sealed.

According to the expert, Man Utd probably decided to do without Ten Hag after that defeat and were simply waiting for the next “bad result” before pulling the trigger.

“I thought he would come,” Neville admitted. “Watching that Tottenham game a few weeks ago I felt like I had seen this before. It was a bad day for Manchester United and a bad day for Erik ten Hag.

“The situation got worse, yesterday the missed chances were unacceptable, they should have been two up at half-time.

“Overall, the challenges in terms of results and performance have led the owners to decide to dismiss Erik ten Hag. “I don’t think anyone is really surprised this morning.”

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Neville added: “I suspect the Tottenham game was probably a catalyst for them to start thinking about a new manager.

“You look at who’s available and then you try to think about the moment. You have half a hope that the manager can turn things around, but 99 times out of 100, the tide is against you and continues to go against you.

“They have probably chosen a moment that was decided a few weeks ago: in the face of the next bad defeat or bad result, we will probably have to act. That came yesterday (vs West Ham)

“They would have started the process of finding Erik ten Hag’s successor, definitely, because that game against Tottenham a few weeks ago seemed like the end.”

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