However, Amorim has warned United supporters that more exits are required in order for new signings to arrive once this season has finished.
‘Here is simple… to do something we need to sell players,’ Amorim said.
‘We cannot do [signings] now. The window is closed. We need to focus on the games that we have, especially the next one, and then in the summer we will see.’
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Amorim was also asked about more potential staff redundancies at United, with reports this week claiming that 100 more people are set to lose their jobs at Old Trafford.
‘Our biggest problem now is Tottenham and we know the moment of the club,’ Amorim said.
‘I have to understand all these problems but that problem of our club is not new. ‘We already knew all the rules of [financial] fair play, we have a problem at the moment, but that cannot change the way I coach the team and prepare the team.’
United travel to Tottenham for their next Premier League match on Sunday afternoon.
Amorim’s side currently 13th in the Premier League, two points ahead of Spurs.
The 24-year-old winger managed just one goal in all competitions for United in the first half of the campaign but has hit the ground running in Spain, netting twice in his first three games for Betis.
McTominay has proven himself to be a significant goal threat in Serie A, hitting the target six times while registering two assists for Antonio Conte’s side in the Italian top flight this season.
‘Sometimes it’s like that, it can happen in any club,’ Amorim replied when asked why both Antony and McTominay had thrived to such a degree since departing the Theatre of Dreams.
Antony has badly struggled to live up to expectations at United (Picture: Getty)
McTominay has been an instant hit at Napoli (Picture: Getty)
‘This is a club with a lot of pressure. At this kind of club you have to have a base of a team to put the younger players, talented players that came from abroad, that come to a team that has one strong base that can help them to cope with that pressure.
‘We don’t have that in this moment so it’s really hard on them and you feel it on [Patrick] Dorgu, he was a little bit nervous in the first moment.
‘But if you are playing better as a team, you have a strong core that can cope with this, are winning games and are really strong in the games like it’s supposed to be at this kind of club, it will be more easy for these kind of players to be free to play their football.
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The United head coach added: ‘Football is like that.
‘When you reach that level you need to be able to cope with the pressure.
‘Sometimes they go to other clubs and they are more free without pressure and they play better.’
Amorim insists he’s under ‘bigger pressure’ than Postecoglou (Picture: Getty)
Amorim is hoping the short break will have done his players good ahead of their trip to Tottenham in the Premier League this weekend.
‘It was good to work with the team, to feel the players and to try to improve our performance,’ the Portuguese continued.
‘Every game until the end of the season is a big game for us. We need to improve the way we play football but, especially, we need to win.
‘No matter what, we need to win. For that to happen we need to improve the way we play football.’
Both managers have found themselves in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after wretched starts to the season, but Amorim believes he is under ‘bigger pressure’ than Ange Postecoglou.
Asked if he has sympathy for the under-fire Spurs boss, Amorim replied: ‘Of course, especially because he is a good guy.
‘He’s a very good coach. He wants to play football in the right way, for me that is a good thing.
‘When we choose this profession there is a lot of good things but then you have to feel that pressure when you don’t win.’
