Diogo Dalot: Manchester United squad must become ‘more obsessed’ with success

Diogo Dalot says Manchester United’s players need to become “more obsessed” about representing the club and leading it to success.

Ruben Amorim’s Red Devils looked to have put a wretched 2024/25 season and stumbling start to this campaign behind them during a promising five-match unbeaten run.

But a pair of Old Trafford setbacks either side of last weekend’s comeback win at Crystal Palace have darkened the mood, with the shock 1-0 loss to 10-man Everton compounded on Thursday evening.

Boos greeted the end of an uninspiring 1-1 draw with 18th-placed West Ham, which left long-serving wing-back Dalot frustrated on a number of levels.

“I think we’ve shown this season that we can be a very good team and we can beat anybody,” Thursday’s goalscorer said. “Then, it’s something that we need to get into ourselves.

“Sometimes, it’s not football qualities. It has to be from inside. It has to be from the anger and the drive that you have every day to win football games and to live your life like that.

“I think we need to become a bit more obsessed about playing for this club, winning games and winning trophies for this club. But it’s a process.

“I’m not going to get into the ‘we need time’ thing. I think we have to win straight away because that’s what the club demands.

“That’s why it hurts sometimes even more when we have opportunities like this (against West Ham) and we don’t win.”

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