RUBEN AMORIM insists he will have the final say on all transfer comings and goings at Man Utd.
The new manager held his first press conference today - and wasted no time in stamping his authority on the club.
Amorim, 39, replaces Erik ten Hag as manager appointed by part owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his new senior management team of Omar Berrada, Sir David Brailsford, Dan Ashworth and Jason Wilcox.
The board have overseen a calamitous summer of bungling in their dealings with former boss Ten Hag and with some questionable recruitment.
For example they lumbered Ten Hag with frontman flop Joshua Zirkzee believing he was a good investment when the former boss did not ask for him.
But the new man says that he won’t be a pushover.
Former Sporting Lisbon coach Amorim revealed: “The final word should be the manager’s.
“Not just because it’s your right but your responsibility.
“Because in the end, the results are down to me.
“I have a great responsibility when we choose players because this is something that should be done this way.
“I’m the manager, the head coach, so I have to choose the players.”
Amorim insisted the senior management team will have to help him improve the club’s transfer activity but said the buck stops at his desk.
He said: “Everybody has to work together and for that we have to improve the process on recruitment, the data, the profile of players we want, but I have to have a strong position on that because I am the coach, I know how to play.”
The new head coach conducted his first press conference as United boss at The Carrington Training Ground.
He was full of confidence about how he can be different to David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ten Hag in getting the club right back to where they were under Sir Alex Ferguson.
He said: “You had here different type of coaches.
“So the guys who won everything like Van Gaal and Mourinho, you had new ones who knew the club inside out like Solskjaer, and one of the best that there will ever be outside the five strongest leagues was Ten Hag.
“You have different type of coaches, the same result. We will try to do it our way, the Ineos way, and my way.”