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Manchester United are said to be disappointed with the robust approach of Sky Sports News reporter Gary Cotterill towards their new head coach Ruben Amorim in Portugal on Monday.
Cotterill repeatedly asked Amorim to answer a question in English at the press conference for his final home game as Sporting Lisbon boss, a Champions League tie against Manchester City, but was told by the 39-year-old and his press officer that he would only speak in Portuguese.
'It's like a cold shoulder to all your English fans,' said Cotterill as Amorim tried to maintain a smile throughout the awkward exchange.
While there is no suggestion that United will make an official complaint to Sky Sports – with whom the club is said to have a generally positive relationship – sources tell Confidential that there was some disappointment at Old Trafford over the 'hostile' approach taken by the primary Premier League rights holder towards Amorim.
It's understood that United haven't gagged Amorim and the instruction came from the higher-ups at Sporting.
Amorim did respond to UK reporters in English when Confidential was in Lisbon prior to official confirmation of his switch to United, but it was then decided that he would not answer any questions – particularly about United – in English until after his final game against Braga on Sunday before starting his new job on November 11.
It won't have gone down well with Cotterill and Sky Sports, however, that Amorim gave an exclusive interview in English to rival broadcaster TNT Sports who are screening the Sporting-City game on Tuesday night.
It's not the first time Cotterill has had a scrape with a new United boss.
His attempts to get a few words out of Erik ten Hag after his appointment was confirmed in 2022 – approaching him at Ajax's training ground and again at Selhurst Park where Ten Hag first watched United play Crystal Palace – upset the Dutchman to such an extent that he refused to take a question from the veteran Sky Sports man at his first pre-match press conference at Carrington later that summer.
It hasn't always been that way though. C
otterill enjoyed such a warm relationship with Jose Mourinho at United and Chelsea that the Portuguese coach presented him with a signed shirt when United played his Fenerbahce side in Istanbul two weeks ago, and offered to take him out for dinner during the press conference.