Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has been at the club for three-and-a-half months and has so far been unable to bring any kind of new manager bounce to Old Trafford.
The 40-year-old replaced Erik ten Hag in November and has so far overseen 14 Premier League matches, winning just four, drawing twice and losing eight, with Manchester United sitting 15th in the Premier League table.
The Red Devils are on course for their worst season of the Premier League era, something the Portuguese appears to be well aware of, labelling this as ‘the worst team maybe in the history of Manchester United’ last month.
Rio Ferdinand gives Manchester United verdict after Ruben Amorim's poor start
This weekend’s 1-0 defeat to Tottenham saw Amorim admit he has ‘a lot of problems’, with the head coach admitting that the job is ‘so hard’.
His time in England so far comes as a stark contrast to the success he enjoyed with Sporting CP, where he won his second Primeira Liga title last season and was building a reputation as one of Europe’s most promising young coaches, with FourFourTwo ranking him as the 11th best manager in the world last year.
It was this progress that convinced the Old Trafford hierarchy that he was the right man to replace Ten Hag,
But after a stuttering start and further off-the-pitch moves at the club, including the departure of Dan Ashworth after just five months and reports of a further round of redundancies, questions are beginning to be asked about Amorim’s long-term future in the role.
These murmurings have got on the radar of former Red Devils defender Rio Ferdinand, who gave a blunt answer when asked on X if getting rid of Amorim would be the best option.
‘No - coach stays!”, was Ferdinand’s answer, as he gave Amorim his backing.
In FourFourTwo’s opinion, it’s easy to see why Amorim has struggled. The club’s injury list is biting hard, with eight teenagers being named on the bench at Spurs, while the playing squad Amorim has at his disposal simply does not match the expenditure that Manchester United have made in recent seasons.
Amorim should not pay the price for expensive mistakes that the Red Devils have made before he arrived and if the club are serious about getting their house in order, they cannot afford to keep constantly pivot in terms of the strategy and culture they are trying to build.
