Ruben Amorin has singled out injury prone Mason Mount as a key player for his Manchester United revolution, with the new head coach declaring: “I love him.”
Mount, 25, has spent more time in the treatment room than on the pitch since moving to Old Trafford from Chelsea in the summer of 2023.
He has made just 26 appearances in a season and a third, including only two league starts so far this campaign. But Mount is fit and ready for the start of Amorim’s reign and his track record of shining in the Portuguese’s favourite 3-4-3 system should stand him in good stead.
“ Mason Mount … I have to tell you I love that kid,” Amorim said during his media duties before his first game in charge of United, away to Ipswich, on Sunday afternoon.
”You can look in his eyes that he wants this so bad. And this is the most important thing for me.
“I know he was suffering from injuries, he was not on the pitch, but now he’s trying to stay fit and we hope he can continue to be fit, to show all the talent that he’s shown, for example, in Chelsea.”
”He played in this system [before], so it’s perfect for him,” Amorim said. “I have two positions for Mason Mount, so he should be very happy.”
Mount played both as a No10 and out wide for Thomas Tuchel’s Champions League-winning Chelsea. He was also a key player for England at the time – only for his body to let him down since moving north.
And Amorim added of his much talked about system: “A lot of people talk about the 3-4-3 and the 4-3-3 and all that stuff,” he said last week.
“But when I think as a player or as a team-mate of Manchester United, it is not a system or formation, it's like the character of the players, the way they see the club.
"So we have to focus on that before the everything of how we play, how we press. The most important thing for me at this moment is to create the principles, the identity and the character that we had in the past.”