\n<\/p>\n
Ruben Amorim has conceded Benjamin Sesko is struggling for form at Manchester United and wants the striker to learn to accept criticism so it becomes like a \u201cnormal Monday\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sesko has scored only twice in 11 appearances for United since joining the club from RB Leipzig for \u00a373.7m in August. That has brought inevitable pressure on to the 22-year-old\u2019s shoulders with Amorim revealing that while he is relaxed about the situation, the player himself is not. \u201cI understand how things are in football, and he\u2019s going to struggle,\u201d said the head coach. \u201cHe has no experience here, and when everyone says that you are the next big thing, you hear that. If you don\u2019t perform every week, you are going to hear from club legends, from pundits, the media, and sometimes they are right.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ability to understand that this is normal and maintain your confidence is really hard for a kid, and especially for a kid that wants to control everything. He is not going to control everything.\u201d It is understood that Sesko is meticulous regarding his preparation, arriving at the training ground at 8am and often leaving as late as 4pm.<\/p>\n
After last weekend\u2019s 2-2 draw at Nottingham Forest, Gary Neville claimed that Sesko was \u201cmiles off it\u201d. Amorim was asked if these type of comments affect players. \u201cNobody likes to hear [that],\u201d he said. \u201c[Sesko has] struggled a little bit so let\u2019s embrace that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not personal \u2013 that\u2019s what I try to explain to the players. It\u2019s an opinion that [could] change in a few weeks. What is true today, in three weeks could be different. My advice to Ben is you are going to get used to [hearing such opinions] and then it\u2019s going to be natural \u2013 be like your Monday here. So we are going to help and protect Ben because he works so hard and wants to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amorim went on to suggest that Bruno Fernandes may have to accept being rested next season if United again have European football. \u201cWe have one game per week so I\u2019m not thinking about rotation. In the future \u2013 yes, [this] is something Bruno needs to understand,\u201d said Amorim. \u201cIf you want to win every game and [have] European games, [I am] going to rotate. So for Bruno to put in his head that maybe next year he\u2019s going to be in rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n
skip past newsletter promotion<\/p>\n
Sign up to Football Daily<\/span><\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.<\/span><\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Casemiro\u2019s contract with United expires in the summer. Asked about the midfielder\u2019s future, Amorim referred to Harry Maguire, who is in an identical contract situation. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what is going to happen,\u201d he said. \u201cHarry Maguire \u2013 he has the same problem. Let\u2019s focus on this season and then we\u2019ll see the next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ruben Amorim has conceded Benjamin Sesko is struggling for form at Manchester United and wants the striker to learn to accept criticism so it becomes like a \u201cnormal Monday\u201d. Sesko has scored only twice in 11 appearances for United since joining the club from RB Leipzig for \u00a373.7m in August. That has brought inevitable pressure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[13785,2803,1025,7645,1570,4232,18801,6734,3677],"class_list":{"0":"post-32615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-amorim","9":"tag-form","10":"tag-hes","11":"tag-lack","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-relaxed","14":"tag-seskos","15":"tag-struggle","16":"tag-united"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}