The coach takes charge of his last home game as Sporting boss against City in the Champions League on Tuesday (05.11.24) and admits that a victory could give Manchester United fans sky-high expectations of their incoming coach.

Asked how he thinks beating City will go down at Old Trafford, Amorim said: "I don’t think about that.

"My focus is on winning the match for Sporting. The conclusions are not important for me because they could be erroneous: if we win tomorrow they will think the new Alex Ferguson has arrived. That will be very difficult. It could increase expectations, I don’t know what is better when I start my new adventure."

Amorim officially starts work with United next week and admits that he had mixed emotions about leaving his beloved Sporting for a new opportunity with the Red Devils.

He told TNT Sports of his move: "Very tough. The worst and best week of my life. I don’t have another way to explain [it]. Very tough because I’m leaving a very good place, but I’m going to one of the best clubs in the world. So it’s been very tough, but it is what it is.

"I’m emotional but not in this part. I know because I was a player and I know in our life we have to leave, to go, change our environment quite often.

"But I’m very emotional in my relationship with the players and staff. So I have a connection with them. That part will be tough, but the other part - the last game, everybody’s looking at me. In the end that part is not special for me.

"For me, it’s the relationship with the players and in that part I’m very emotional. The part of leaving and going to another place is the life of a player and a coach."