Amorim's work at Sporting has always been very coherent and based on strong ideas.The playing model has always been based on 3 central defenders and 2 offensive wing-backs. Even when losing, he doesn't dispense the 3 central defenders.However, within the same tactic, he manages to explore some variants, as a result of a squad that he has been building over time, which allows him a lot of versatility.He likes short squads but made up of players who play 2 or 3 positions.He doesn't want long squads, with unhappy players who don't play.
The key moment when Sporting's level of play took a big leap was with the signing of Gyokeres. Everything changed with Gyokeres. I don't know how he would do in England, but for the level of the Portuguese league, he is a complete monster.Curiously, the signing of Gyokeres only happened after a bad season for Sporting, in which we had to play the whole year with a striker without the profile to play alone up front (Paulinho) and only under tremendous pressure, Amorim allowed the club to go to the market to sign a suitable striker.
Here we saw two things, because he believes so much in his ideas, Amorim becomes extremely stubborn and on the other hand, the Sporting board let Amorim fail, gave him the necessary stability, never doubted his abilities.