Man Utd head coach Ruben Amorim says the club need to be ‘certain’ of any player they try to sign and they cannot make the same mistakes of the past.

Amorim will be entering his third transfer window at Man Utd in January, adding that everyone in the club’s hierarchy must be aligned on players.

Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports ahead of facing Newcastle on Boxing Day, Amorim said: “We have space to have more players, but it is a very important thing in our club that we have a plan and we need to bring players that we know. 

“It’s hard to know for sure that everything is going to work, but we need to be certain of the players that we bring [in]. 

“If we are not sure, it’s better not to bring anyone and to work with the players that we have. That is clear for me.

“Maybe I should be different like so many managers, but that is my thinking and I think it’s the thinking of the board that we cannot do the same mistakes that we did in the past and we need to survive these moments because we have players coming from international [teams] and from Europe.”

Amorim also says that he can usually tell whether a player is right for his team, adding: “I think I have a good feeling on that. That’s why we will not bring in a player that has that feeling face-to-face.

“They can mislead me a little bit, but it’s going to be hard, so I have the feeling and most of the time, I get it right. 

“I just look at the guy, maybe it’s the way they speak and I think I can detect the rubbish. I don’t know.”