Ruben Amorim's Man Utd shake-up becomes clearer as Erik ten Hag's trusted coach squeezed out

One of Erik ten Hag's trusted lieutenants appears to have been stripped of his main responsibility by Ruben Amorim after being removed from his main duty.

Amorim replaced Ten Hag over the international break, bringing five members of his coaching staff from Sporting Lisbon with him. Ten Hag's assistants Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rene Hake, Jelle ten Rouwelaar and Pieter Morel were all let go.

The only survivors from the old regime were first team coaches Darren Fletcher and Andreas Georgson, plus assistant first-team goalkeeper coach Craig Mawson. Amorim has taken charge of just one game so far, a draw at Ipswich Town on Sunday.

His second will come on Thursday night as Bodo/Glimt visit Old Trafford in the Europa League. And it appears the new United boss is already making changes to display a clear break from Ten Hag.

According to the Daily Mail, set-piece specialist Georgson handed over those duties to the coaches brought in by Amorim during the new boss' first game in charge at Ipswich. Georgson's primary roles under Ten Hag had been overseeing free-kicks and corners.

But the Swede ceded that duty to new arrivals Carlos Fernandes and Adelio Candido ahead of the Ipswich game. The duo spent much of the pre-match warm-up overseeing drills, and every set-piece in-game – both attacking and defending – saw Fernandes bark instructions from the technical area.

Instead, Georgson's biggest role at Portman Road was to check with the fourth official if VAR was working again, after a fire drill at Stockley Park saw the game go six minutes without the technology.

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Amorim is yet to confirm exactly how Georgson and Fletcher fit into his set-up. But United have insisted that the duo remain important members of the first-team coaching staff.

The new boss was left frustrated on Sunday after his side were held by struggling Ipswich, though they may well have lost. And Amorim is hopeful his new team can take a step forward on Thursday.

"They are thinking about too much, because things are so different. Some details, they used to pass the ball and go forwards and now they have to go back. These types of things, they have to think too much," Amorim said.

"It is hard for the players in three days to try to cope with everything, but we have two ways: we forget about the new idea - and I think that's why I was brought here in the middle of the season - and we try to cope with what they are used to doing.

"And next year, at the same stage, we will be here with the same problems. Or we start now, we risk a little bit, we suffer a little bit and next year we will be better at this point. So we have to risk it a little bit."

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