Man Utd's worst manager in the post-Ferguson era? Amorim's Old Trafford record analysed

31 points from 31 games 

Manchester United manager Rúben Amorim was in a defying mood despite the situation, following his team’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon. The result meant that the Red Devils slumped to 14th in the league table with just four points from their first four games. Not only is that the club’s worst start to a league season since the 1992/93 season, but it also means that the Portuguese boss has won just 31 points from 31 league games in the English top-flight. But, despite that, the 40-year-old tactician was adamant that he would stay the course.

“I am not going to change. When I want to change my philosophy, I will change. If not, you have to change the man,” said Amorim to reporters after the match. “We talk about that every game that we lose. I believe in my way, and I am going to play my way until I want to change.” Whether Amorim was being defiant to media criticism of his tenure at Old Trafford or indeed making a point to his employers, it was a bold statement considering his record to date. And one that may force the club to consider their options, when they take a deeper look at the apparent lack of progress that the team have made since Amorim arrived at the club last November.

As we can see in the table above, since Amorim made the move to Man Utd, the club have consistently been one of the worst clubs in the Premier League. As previously noted, the Portuguese manager has won just 31 points from 31 league games. That puts the Red Devils level on points with Tottenham, with only last season’s relegated clubs and this season’s promoted clubs below them due to playing fewer games. It also means that Amorim’s point-per-game in the league sits at just 1.00 - which is a 42 percent drop on his predecessor Erik ten Hag’s average of 1.72 points per game.

In fact, what will likely come as no great surprise to fans of the Old Trafford is that Amorim currently has the worst points per game average in the Premier League for any Man Utd manager since Sir Alex Ferguson stepped down in 2013. As we can see in the table below, not only is the current Red Devils boss worse than his immediate predecessor, but he also falls well short of Ole Gunnar Solskjær, José Mourinho, Louis Van Gaal and David Moyes. And if each of those managers was deemed to be coming up short of the expectations placed on them by the Man Utd board, it seems like only a matter of time before Amorim meets a similar fate unless results drastically improve.