Man Utd must ignore Jamie Carragher and Wayne Rooney in making Ruben Amorim sack decision

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Even in his difficult 11 months at Old Trafford, Amorim’s win percentage is 36.73. It might undermine his opinion but the suggestion from Rooney that Amorim’s tenure looks doomed is not an uncommon one.Rooney’s fellow scouser, Jamie Carragher, has waded in.

And more significantly, we are only SIX games into the Premier League season.Manchester United have seven points from those six games - nothing to write home about but one more than Newcastle United and Aston Villa have accrued, one fewer than Chelsea’s total and three fewer than Manchester City have on the board.They have been inconsistent across those half a dozen matches, for sure, and their defending in the defeat at Brentford was abysmal. Sure, these figures would appear to confirm the veracity of the old line about lies, damned lies and statistics, but perhaps United have not been as bad as most pundits say.The many who believe Amorim should be sacked before he has reached the anniversary of his appointment point to his overall body of work rather than the first half-dozen Premier League games of this season.

And, true, 34 points from 33 Premier League games is relegation form.But Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his football operation have seemingly decided that this season - the one for which he could prepare properly - would essentially be the real start of Amorim’s project. No, this is not good enough from Manchester United and Amorim has an awful lot to prove.But while there are already a lot of things Ratcliffe and his chosen ones have got wrong since buying into United early last year, giving Amorim plenty of time to get things right is not one of them.