Head coach Ruben Amorim increasingly appears to be the latest victim of United's culture of doom after overseeing an eighth defeat in 14 league games at Tottenham last weekend, in a scrappy contest that must have been one of the lowest-quality meetings between the two great clubs in decades.

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has only been in charge for 21 games – but an “early divorce” is on the cards already.The former midfielder left a title-winning Sporting team in his native Lisbon in November to replace the outgoing Erik ten Hag,

Former Manchester United sporting director Dan Ashworth wanted Brentford manager Thomas Frank to replace Erik ten Hag, not Ruben Amorim. Ashworth spent just five months at Manchester United, starting in his role in July last year and leaving in December.