Ruben Amorim retains the full backing of the Manchester United hierarchy, despite the club’s worst start to a season in 33 years.

Sunday’s limp 3-0 defeat to Manchester City was Amorim’s 16th loss since taking charge at Old Trafford 10 months ago, ensuring the under-fire Portuguese has the worst record of any United manager post the Second World War.

He is, however, not under pressure of being the latest head coach to be sacked having failed to restore United to anything like their former grandeur.

The i Paper has been told by several sources that there is a feeling that while results have remained disappointing, there has been an improvement in performances and results remain poor only by “fine margins”.

A lack of goals was fundamental to their downfall in last season’s year from hel

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