Ruben Amorim doing walkthroughs with Man United squad due to limited training

Ruben Amorim revealed he is doing walkthroughs to show players what he wants as he attempts to compensate for a lack of training time during a frantic start to life as Manchester United head coach.

Erik ten Hag’s successor has had precious little opportunity to fine-tune the 3-4-3 set-up and ideals that worked with such great success during his time at Portuguese champions Sporting.

Amorim joined United at the start of an international break when many players were away, meaning he had just two training sessions with the group before last Sunday’s 1-1 Premier League draw at Ipswich.

The Portuguese celebrated his first win in charge in Thursday’s 3-2 Europa League comeback triumph against Bodo/Glimt, with attention then immediately switching to Sunday’s clash with Everton.

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It is the first of nine matches in a manic December for United – a schedule that is squeezing Amorim’s chance to work with his new players, meaning he is trying to get his approach across in different ways.

“I was a football player,” the former Portugal international said. “Football players, videos more than 12 minutes? Forget! Because they lose the concentration.

“So, we have to work on… imagine there’s an indoor stadium. We have that (at Carrington).

“Instead of video, we do it like walking and jogging. It’s a way to do it. Showing some videos.

“Then we have all the staff. For example, Carlos (Fernandes, assistant) is with the strikers.

“They will show individual moments, so we will try to cope with that. Everybody has a job in the staff, and they are more important maybe than me!

“So, that’s it. Trying to see the game, what is missing. They are very good players, they need to believe and we will