Amorim on Martinez ACL injury and Leicester FA Cup preview
06.02.2025
Carrington Training Centre, Manchester, UK
06.02.2025
Carrington Training Centre, Manchester, UK
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00:00Hi Ruben, looking ahead to, well I guess start off with Lissandra Martinez and Luke Shaw,
00:05are you able to offer any information on their injuries and the severity?
00:09Lice is a difficult situation, he's going to be out for a while, we don't know the extension
00:18of the injury but it's an injury that is going to take time. Luke, just a little bit, one
00:26small issue in a different area from the last injury so we try to be careful with Luke.
00:32Dorgu and Heaven have arrived, will they be going straight into the squad tomorrow?
00:36We'll see, you guys have to wait for tomorrow but they are ready to play and there are two
00:41more solutions to help us in this moment. On the subject of signings, on Sunday you said
00:46that the club was trying everything to do something on deadline day and ultimately nothing
00:50happened, are you happy with the work that was done this window, do you feel that more could
00:54have been done? No, what I feel is that the club is taking its time and we know the urgency of the
01:00moment, the moment of the team but I think everybody here don't want to make the same
01:06mistakes that we did in the past so we have to improve the plays that we have and to win some
01:12games and then in the summer we will see but like I said we are being really careful with the
01:19wheel transfers because we did some mistakes in the past.
01:22Ruben, do you accept therefore that the position of the team in the table may not change that much?
01:32Marcus went and we know he wasn't playing, Anthony's gone, Molassi's gone, they are
01:38experienced players, you haven't brought in experienced players to replace them and you
01:43weren't doing that well in the league to start with, do you accept that people are just going
01:48to have to deal with that? No, I think it's a moment that is hard to turn things around in
01:57a few games, it's going to be like that really hard until the end of the season, then we are
02:03taking that risk that you talk about because we want a different thing in our team and we want
02:12different profiles and that is my area so it was my decision to do that. Like I said we are taking
02:20some risks but it's the way we want to proceed, we want to win some games, we can improve our team,
02:29we will have time to train because I was always complaining about the time to train so now we
02:35have time to train, we are going to improve the team, the players and like I said I want a certain
02:40type of players, a different profile and we are changing right away. Do you get concerned
02:47personally, you say it's a risk, you've already lost five home games, do you worry at the back
02:55of your mind that if the results don't change then everybody goes well that's now your fault and
03:00you might come under pressure and what you want may not? Yeah that is clear and it's also
03:07exciting. I know when I choose this profession that you have the risk of the results and I
03:14already knew when I came here, I look at the schedule, I look at the team and I understood that
03:22my decision of changing everything, take these hard decisions in the middle of the season
03:28without new signings, it's a danger for a coach but since day one with good results or bad
03:36results I have a clear idea what I want to do and I take these risks because in the end I think
03:45he's going to pay off in the end but I know I'm not naive, I already said that many times
03:53that this is a sport of results and we are in a difficult situation.
03:58Ruben, this is the first time I've spoken to you since Marcus Rashford left the club,
04:01so I'm just wondering how you left the situation with him personally and obviously he's only on
04:06loan so there's a chance he could be back here in the summer and how that could potentially play out?
04:11Guys in the summer like we said before we are fighting for our jobs until the summer so
04:18I'm focused just on these games. Thankfully Marcus is in Birmingham now with Unai so you can take
04:26the questions for this month to another coach, we are focused just on our players in the moment.
04:32You've only got four senior strikers and the oldest of those is 23, you're hoping to go
04:40deep in two cup compositions, that doesn't seem like a lot of players in a very important part
04:45of the pitch considering you may play a lot of games between now and the end of the season?
04:49We have to find players to play in the different positions, we can say in the way we play with
04:55Argo we have one more winger to play in both sides, of course he's going to take time so
05:00he's not going to solve all the problems. We have to improve, we create chances we don't score,
05:05we have many shots inside the box and we catch always one player so these small things I think
05:10we can improve. I think Ahmad can score more, Bruno can score more, even Kobe Mane can score
05:17more playing in that position a little bit further on the pitch so we have to improve as a team,
05:24we have a little bit more time, let's see in the end of the season.