'He really believes in this' - Bruno Fernandes says Man Utd stars 'understand' coach Ruben Amorim's plan to turn Red Devils' results around

United have been on a rollercoaster journey since Sir Alex Ferguson's departure in 2013 and the Red Devils are yet again having to undergo another rebuild at Old Trafford, this time under Amorim. The 20-time Premier League champions have not had the best start to life under the Portuguese coach, but captain Fernandes has claimed that the players are fully backing Amorim in his rebuild.

Speaking to Sky Sports, Fernandes said: "It's really easy when you don't get results, when you don't get the performance that you start losing belief on everything you've been doing but I think that was one of the good things we had as a team - we kept the belief on what we are doing, on what we've been training and where we want to go as a team, where the staff wants us to go as a team, what we want to improve as a team.

"And that is what is giving us now some more credit because we've been doing the same things that people probably will think like, 'oh, the manager has to change this back three or back five, it doesn't work. We need to go back four. We need one more striker.'

"You know, every time you lose or every time something goes wrong, everyone has an opinion about what you should do differently. But obviously the manager has his own idea and we understand. What we do really understand as players at the moment is that he really believes in this. So there is no way that it makes you not believe it."

Fernandes went on and added: "So everything he says to you, everything he tries to pass to you - him and his staff - he does it in a way that we really believe on what we are doing in. Even in games where you concede a goal or you have a setback or whatever, he just wants us to understand that the things we're doing they will bring results if we do it in the right way.

"And that's the most important thing we had in this period where we were not getting results was difficult. As you said, it's really tough here when you we're not winning games, but it's massive and brilliant when you're winning games here too."

Despite the difficult start to life, Amorim's United got a major result in their favour against Premier League title challengers Arsenal in the FA Cup on Sunday. The Red Devils take on bottom side Southampton in the league on Thursday.