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Exactly one year has passed since Erik ten Hag was sacked by Manchester United . The decision came just over two months into the season and was widely seen as a brutal yet necessary one, with the Dutch manager having won the FA Cup only a few months prior.

Then-Sporting CP boss Ruben Amorim was eyed by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos as their top candidate to replace Ten Hag - and they got their man after shelling out £8.3million to activate his release clause . But the 12 months since the Portuguese’s appointment haven’t gone as planned.

With a mishmash squad of players who were not his signings and who were unable to play his trademark 3-4-2-1 formation to a high level, Amorim’s Red Devils finished 15th in the Premier League last term, the club’s worst-ever fi

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