Mourinho: Man United right to stick with Amorim

Jose Mourinho said erstwhile nine Manchester United are doing the close happening by sticking with manager Ruben Amorim contempt their disappointing season.

Under Amorim, United ended 15th successful the Premier League, their worst-ever finish. They besides missed retired qualification for the Champions League done the Europa League, losing 1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur successful the final.

"From what I work the interaction [of losing Europa League final] connected Man United of people it is immense successful the consciousness of however galore years Man Utd is not progressive successful immoderate European competition," Mourinho, the past manager to usher United to a European rubric successful 2017, told Sky Sports.

"But astatine the aforesaid clip it looks similar they are supporting Ruben. They are giving him clip and conditions to spell forward."

Amorim, who near Sporting CP successful November to usher United, apologised to the fans aft the team's worst-ever Premier League finish.

However, he said this week that missing retired connected European shot would payment his squad arsenic it looks to execute amended adjacent season. "I've work immoderate quotes from him [Amorim] saying that helium is blessed that helium came and had already these six months," Mourinho said. Mourinho, successful complaint of Fenerbahce since past summer, says helium tin subordinate to what Amorim is going through.

"When I went to Porto the aforesaid happened to me," helium said. "I went successful January [2002], I had a hard six months. We were struggling adjacent to suffice for UEFA Cup and past it happened, what happened."

Mourinho would spell onto usher FC Porto to a treble -- Portuguese league, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup -- successful his archetypal afloat play successful complaint earlier defending the Portuguese league rubric and adding the Champions League trophy successful the 2003-04 campaign.