
Manchester United’s head of recruitment, Christopher Vivell, is reported to have questioned Ruben Amorim’s favoured 3-4-2-1 formation in a private WhatsApp group for the club’s hierarchy.
Amorim had previously insisted “not even the Pope” would be able to convince him to change away from a formation which had delivered just 24 wins from 60 games across all competitions, but a pleasant tweak to a 4-2-3-1 yielded an impressive 1–0 win over Newcastle United on Boxing Day.