RUBEN AMORM will use state-of-the-art technology to find out who isn’t pulling their weight at Manchester United.
The Portuguese gaffer has been nothing short of ruthless since replacing Erik ten Hag at the Old Trafford helm.
Amorim has already banished Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, Alejandro Garnacho, Antony and Tyrell Malacia.
And he could be set to add a few more names to his “bomb squad” thanks to the implementation of the most elite fitness apparatus.
Amorim’s troops will this season wear STATSports’ Apex 2.0 GPS performance tracker vests during training and in matches to keep tabs on their respective outputs.
The trackers will provide “real-time kinematics” to the former Sporting Lisbon boss and his staff with a whopping FIVE MILLION data points over a 90-minute period.
The tracker is said to be 100 PER CENT accurate, meaning anyone deemed to be not pulling their weight will have no leg to stand on.
STATSports managing director Paul McKernan told The Telegraph: “You can make decisions on the players based on data you see in front of you.
“Not waiting until after the session and downloading the data and saying ‘I wish Mason Mount had run a little bit further or done a few more sprints, or actually he did too much today.”
The writing is seemingly on the wall for any of the remaining stragglers, which Luke Shaw recently claimed are no longer present, in the Red Devils squad.
Amorim said: “If you don’t train in the right way, I have footage to show you.
“And I show you in front of everybody. So I’m always on top [of the players].
“I will expect to be in one phase – that I don’t need to do anything because they will push each other.
“But if you train bad one time, I will you show the image in the moment.
“I will not speak with you, I will just speak. I will show you everything.”
Amorim will be hoping his new six-man leadership team, which comprises of skipper Bruno Fernandes, Lisandro Martinez, Diogo Dalot, Noussair Mazraoui, Tom Heaton and Harry Maguire, will crack the whip on their under-performing team-mates this season.
United, who ended the 2024/25 season in 15th place, will kick off their new domestic campaign at home to Arsenal a week on Sunday.
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