A closer look at the numbers a year into Ruben Amorim’s ‘journey’ at Man Utd

Saturday marks the first anniversary of Ruben Amorim being announced as Manchester United’s new manager.

Here, the PA news agency looks at his record and how he compares to his predecessors in the Old Trafford hot seat.

Amorim’s record

Amorim jokingly referred to his first year in charge as “a journey,” adding: “It was really tough. Good moments and bad moments.”

– Amorim has won only 21 of his 52 games in charge, or 40.4 per cent, the worst rate of any United manager since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson aside from Ralf Rangnick’s 37.9 per cent in half a season as interim manager.

– United have lost almost half of their Premier League games under Amorim, 17 out of 36, and won only a third (12).

– His average of 1.19 points per game is the worst of any United manager in the Premier League era. Next lowest is Rangnick, who averaged 1.54.

– Amorim’s current three-match winning run against Sunderland, Liverpool and Brighton matches equals his longest with the club, previously set in Europa League fixtures against Rangers and FCSB either side of a Premier League clash with Fulham in January.

How he compares

Since Ferguson, who won 26 major trophies in 27 years at Old Trafford and had a 59.7 per cent win ratio, United have struggled to find a long-term figurehead.

– Ferguson took charge of 1,500 games with United. In 686 games since he retired in 2013, the club have had six permanent managers plus Rangnick and caretakers Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

– Jose Mourinho has the best win percentage of those permanent managers with 58.3 per cent, 84 out of 144 games.

– Mourinho also won the most trophies of any manager since Ferguson, with a League Cup and Europa League double in 2016-17 having opened that season with the Community Shield. Erik ten Hag won both domestic cups, Louis van Gaal won an FA Cup and David Moyes another Community Shield.

– Amorim has lost 36.5 per cent of his matches overall, the worst of any permanent United manager since Scott Duncan who lost 90 out of 235 games (38.3 per cent) between 1927 and 1931.