Ruben Amorim is so impressed by the dedication of his Manchester United team that he has canceled the planned double training sessions.
In a grim change of the dictatorial regime last summer, the United Squad ended under former boss Erik Tan Hag during their Asian tour, the Old Trafford Chief Amorim and his fitness team have seen enough to guarantee a relaxed environment on their base in Chicago.
And the buy-in of the players was clear, with a growing feeling that United could finally be on the right track again.
Sunsport has gained insight into how Amorim and his players have spent their time since he arrived in the US last week.
This includes the gym and fitness requirements, how he has managed the sauna-like conditions to develop tactical plans and down-time for the players to ensure that they are ready to take more on board.
Amorim and his staff, aware of how far behind the most important elite they were last season, were determined to make a flying start when the players returned to Carrington in early July.
All first team team had quite a detailed and intensive fitness programs to do during their vacation, including reporting their performance in specific physical tasks.
From the first day it was clear to the club's sports science staff, when the clocked figures matched their reports, that the players had seriously treated the requirements.
A sprint exercise in squeaky test style, which draws up the requirements, brought extra intensity to the first sessions, because Amorim and his staff wanted the players to recognize how much was needed.
But the positive statistical feedback was proof that the team wanted to be part of a new approach, with that urge to fitness that continued in the past four weeks.
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The gym work started every day at 10.30 am, with the players gathering for breakfast from 7.30 am – although without a rigid timeline, except Amorim, who has done his own gym work before the players ended their morning meal.
But the coach to training – at the impressive Endeavour complex of Chicago Fire – left the spot at 9.15 am.
Sessions have seen a lot on the pitch -pitchen, with one nominal “shooting drill” including endurance work on sprints between the stations.
And with the heat in mind, Amorim – not even rolling the club cameras – started his tactical work with the team.
This is because players feel encouraged to make decisions under pressure, with only two or three instructions in the bullet point style.
Set -piece work under the supervision of assistant -Manager Carlos Fernandes, seen by Amorim as his familiar self -assured and second set of eyes -is not wrong with the role that Jose Mourinho had under Bobby Robson in Porto.
However, Amorim's first plans to do two training sessions every day are not required because of the high fitness levels.
That has enabled Amorim to largely hand over their afternoons, with the extra free time that offers them the opportunity to strengthen their internal relationships.
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Players are relaxed in cafes and go shopping – where Chicago offers a relative anonymity that they would not get at home.
In contrast to previous tours, however, little of Amorim's side used the installation of the playroom in their Waldorf Astoria Hotel, mainly because it is placed on the third floor, two stories below the level of the main rooms.
Amorim is supposed to believe that he should treat the players as adults instead of petulating or trickent children, as happened under ten hag.
Skipper Bruno Fernandes and Harry Maguire have been influential figures and have spoken with the various player groups and employees to help promote the collective environment that the manager has been established.
All of that helped, especially for the players who remember the ten tours for the season of Hag with a shudder.
It is about discipline within an agreed system, instead of a Draconian performance.
That was shown when ten Hag and his players were in the Thai capital Bangkok.
The lifts in their hotel were very slow and with ten hag who imposed punishments for anyone who was too late to attend a meeting or a meal, many of the players used the stairs to ensure that they were on time.
It meant that stairwells are full of players on the 40 flights to come to the dining room.
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