Manchester United are in a period of transition after replacing Erik ten Hag with Ruben Amorim in the wake of their 2-1 loss to West Ham United this season – but a damning graphic has revealed that they are actually regressing under the 39-year-old. Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his INEOS-led team held onto Ten Hag’s services in the summer, despite the club boasting their worst-ever finish of the Premier League era, thanks to winning the FA Cup in tremendous fashion over Manchester City. But after luxurious spending in the summer – on the likes of Manuel Ugarte, Leny Yoro and Joshua Zirkzee – a hodgepodge start to the 2024/25 campaign saw the straw break on the camel’s back and Ten Hag was dismissed.
GIVEMESPORT Key Statistic: Amorim is the third Man Utd manager to win their first two games in a major European competition – alongside Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson. After an interim period with striker-turned-manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, one that saw the Dutchman offered the Leicester City job, Amorim was appointed as the next man to attempt to emulate the previous successes of Sir Alex Ferguson . Many managers – from Louis van Gaal to Jose Mourinho to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – have tried to fill the boots of the stubborn Scot to varying levels of success but, among the Old Trafford echo chamber, there was a bubbling feeling about Amorim.
Despite his recent woes, Erik ten Hag remains surprisingly high up on the list. At the time of writing, the Portuguese – widely conside.
