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Ruben Amorim admits ‘control freak’ Benjamin Sesko is struggling to live up to expectations at Manchester United and handle the criticism from pundits and former players. The United boss accepts Sesko will take time to settle at Old Trafford following a £73.7million summer move from RB Leipzig, and is backing the young Slovenia striker to be a success. But Amorim has told Sesko that he must learn to live with the intense scrutiny from the critics after scoring twice in his first 11 games. Last weekend, Gary Neville told Sky Sports that the 22-year-old is ‘miles off it’ compared to other summer signings Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, who on Friday was named the Premier League player of the month for October. ‘I’m relaxed. He’s not relaxed,’ said Amorim. ‘I understand how things are in football and he's going to struggle – that is normal. ‘He has no experience here, and then the first impact when everyone says that you are so good, you are the next big thing – and you hear about that with Sesko – and then you come to one club that is the hardest club. ‘If you don't perform every week, you are going to hear a lot of things from club legends, from pundits, from the media, and sometimes they are right. ‘To have the ability to understand that is normal and still maintain your level of confidence is really hard for a young kid, especially for a young kid that is a control freak. 'He wants to control everything, and he’s not going to control everything. Of course, nobody likes to hear it, but he struggled a little bit and that is a fact. ‘So let’s embrace that. It’s not personal, it’s not nothing. That is what I try to explain to the players. 'That is not personal. It’s an opinion that is going to change in three weeks. Everything that is true today, in three weeks could be a lie.' Sesko did score his first United goal during their 3-1 defeat by Brentford in September in his seventh appearance for the club, before he followed that up with another strike against Sunderland the following week. However, despite the Red Devils' form improving, he has failed to net since and has struggled as he continues to adapt to England football. And Amorim admitted that while criticism is never nice, he has no doubts that Sesko will come good. The Portuguese coach added: ‘So of course, it’s hard to hear. But my advice to Ben is you are going to get used to it, and then it's going to be natural. It’s going to be like your Monday here. ‘So that is part of the process and we are going to help him, and we are going to protect Ben because he works really hard and we want to succeed. So he's going to succeed. ‘When I start training with Ben, he has more potential than I was thinking. He’s going to struggle and we need to understand how he likes to play also to put in our ideas. ‘He is going to be our striker for the long term. But he’s going to have these struggles and these bumps during the ride, and that is a normal thing in football.’ Speaking last week following United's 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest, Neville had said: 'He's miles off it compared to the other forwards United brought in, like Cunha and Mbeumo. 'He looks awkward, his touch was off a few times when balls went over the top. 'For £80m (£73.7m), yes he's young and still settling but you want to see something more.' United are back in action on Saturday when they travel to Tottenham for the Premier League's lunchtime kick off.
