Ranking Ruben Amorim’s seven Man Utd signings from worst to best: Sesko 6th… | OneFootball

Ruben Amorim was sacked by Manchester United on Monday following 63 games in charge and the latest in a series of choice words to the press.

There was reported discontent with the United hierarchy which eventually ended with Amorim’s sacking, though the boss had improved markedly since his arrival at the club.

He inherited a bottom-half club and saw them finish 15th in the Premier League in his first season, but then had them sixth at the time of his sacking.

Amorim made seven signings during his time as United boss, some of whom are directly responsible for the upturn in form, and here we have ranked them from worst to best.

7. Diego Leon

Leon is yet to play for United’s senior side after joining as a teenager from Paraguayan outfit Cerro Porteno in the summer.

The left-back is seen as a good prospect, who has scored in one of his games for the under-21s, but he can’t be ranked anywhere but the bottom given he’s not yet good enough to make the first team, having thrice sat on the bench.

6. Benjamin Sesko

Sesko has certainly shown promise, but he is perhaps not where United hoped he would be five months after he was signed from a Champions League club for an initial £65million.

Sesko scored 21 times for RB Leipzig in all competitions last season, including four strikes in the Champions League, but for United he has just two goals and an assist, all in the Premier League, from 16 games.

The longer his lean run goes on for, the more his big-money signing will look like a waste.

5. Patrick Dorgu

Signed as the perfect man to slot into Amorim’s 3-4-2-1 system, having come from a back-three formation where he had success bombing up the left flank from wing-back, Dorgu was supposed to be the first signing of Amorim’s shiny new era.

But that that hasn’t gone well is evidenced by the Dane being dropped multiple times, last season for Harry Amass, and this term for right-sided defender Diogo Dalot.

Two players who were already at the club and had experienced back-four formations far more than back threes playing ahead of him proves Dorgu’s signing was a waste.

With United likely to return to a back four now, and with Luke Shaw playing on the left and Dalot able to do the same, Dorgu’s future at the club looks under threat.

His current role playing as a winger, with Bryan Mbeumo and Amad Diallo away at the African Cup of Nations, might be the only avenue he has to convince the club not to ship him out.

4. Ayden Heaven

United paid just over £1million in compensation to Arsenal when they signed teenage central defender Heaven.

His progress was slow last season, but he’s now starting for United at 19 years of age. His initial inclusion in the side might have been prompted by injuries, but he has been preferred to £52million signing Leny Yoro  of late.

United have not felt the absence of Matthijs de Ligt quite as much as they might have had Heaven not been around.

3. Senne Lammens

Andre Onana was not supposed to be leaving in the summer before United made the late decision to back 23-year-old Belgian Lammens, and that has proven a good one.

He has been the calm head that Onana rarely was, ensuring that the mistakes which haunted the Red Devils while he was between the sticks have ceased.

Lammens is not one of the very best goalkeepers in the league, but for just over £18million, becoming a starter who walks into the side after never having played for a top-five league club has proven his signing was great business.

2. Matheus Cunha

The first signing Amorim made in the summer, it was evident how much the then-United boss wanted to sign Cunha, after 21 direct goal contributions in the Premier League for Wolves last term.

So far, Cunha has four goals and an assist for United, though his impact has been more than just goals, as he’s driven attacks and put defences under pressure, before team-mates have received the glory.

1. Bryan Mbeumo

The Premier League’s player of the month in October, when he scored three goals and assisted once – in wins over Brighton, Liverpool and Sunderland – Mbeumo has been one of the best players at United this season.

So far he has seven goals and one assist in 17 games in all competitions, and his consistency has been a massive help to a United side who were short of attacking prowess last season.