Rasmus Position in Amorim’s system is absolutely key, instead of building his team/Squad from the back, Ruben is a complete opposite.
He builds his teams from the front to backwards, His sporting team came 1st, 2nd, 4th, 1st but it’s important to note that they were not prolific scorers until he bought Victor Gyokeres, the team scored 65 goal in the title wining season of 20/21, 73 Goals in 21/22 season when they came second, 71 goals in 22/23 season when they came 4th, then in 23/24 season when he signed Gyokeres and they scored 94 Goals and won his second league.
This season they have scored 27 League Goals from 9 games or 3 goals per game.
Previous to Gyokeres, the goals were shared round the team with Paulinho, Marcus Edwards, Pedro Goncalves, Nuno Santos and Francisco Tincaio being the main contributors, Gyokeres was a transformative signing that took a team that averaged just over 2.09 league goals per game to 2.81 goals per game.
They went from a 74% league win rate to an 88% win rate when Gyokeres signed and Amorim perfected his system. They went from conceding 0.73 goals per game to 0.72 goals, so hardly any change.
United right now can’t even score 1 goal per game and average 1.38 goal conceeded, he has his work cut out indulging Rasmus and Zirkzee when they hugely unreliable in front of goal. His first target is to get his team
Averaging 2 goals scored per game and conceding less than 1.
I genuinely think Part of his agreement would be he can go get at least 1 or 2 players he knows to go with Ugarte. He’ll know Bruno and Dalot as well, I’m sure and Bruno will be playing as one of the inside 10’s and playing the Pedro Goncalves role, I’m guessing he wants Victor Gyokeres from January the 1st and United may have to offset that sale with a player like Marcus Rashford, Antony, Joshua Zirkzee, Mason Mount?
I can see any 2 of those 4 going to get him the player that he thinks his key to his system and Rasmus will be the understudy where he will have to bide his time as a young 21/22 year old striker. Amorim will want a sure thing, not a maybe number 9?