The seven words that show Ruben Amorim is a breath of fresh air at Manchester United

It would have been very easy for Ruben Amorim to stroll into the Anfield press room on Sunday evening and take his plaudits. On the back of a couple of training sessions, he had delivered a team that looked like his own and had gone toe-to-toe with the league leaders.

But even though we're only 56 days into the Amorim era at Old Trafford, it surprised nobody who covers the club regularly that he went for a different tactic. He didn't take his bouquets. He said he was "mad" and "upset".

If the head coach had strolled into that room, praised the performance levels, and delivered a few empty platitudes, it would have gone against everything he has been trying to do in the last few weeks. Amorim has quickly diagnosed some of the many failings he has inherited at Old Trafford, one of which is a sharp decline in standards.

So delivering a bravura performance at Anfield when the world is watching isn't worthy of praise, only questions. Such as why can't you do this every week? Amorim has been honest about the shock therapy he is trying to deliver, and now has everyone's attention.

That is why he has been highlighting the threat of relegation, complaining about a lack of leaders, and publicly stating that his players are nervous, anxious, and afraid. After the game at Anfield, he said it was all part of a plan to shake Manchester United out of hibernation.

"I'm trying that [motivation] every day," Amorim told reporters. "I'm trying to push this team every day, sometimes it's maybe not the best way, I am always challenging these players in everything I do because I feel we are, not just the players, but everybody at Manchester United is too comfortable.

"So I think sometimes we need a shock, and you can see today we were a