Ruben Amorim has acknowledged he might have made a mistake when he went public in describing his team as “the worst, maybe, in the history of Manchester United.”

It's either part of some high-stakes 10-dimensional strategy we cannot fathom or signs of a man with a kamikaze pilot approach to emotional restraint.

Ruben Amorim has been told the form of one of his key Manchester United players is ‘unacceptable’. The problems are piling up for Amorim, who has endured a largely dismal first couple of months in the job since replacing Erik ten Hag in November.