Four players fighting for Manchester United future as Ruben Amorim shows true colours

Ruben Amorim has marked the first month of his Manchester United tenure by using a total of 22 players in his opening five matches.

The new head coach has used the maximum number of substitutions available during that time too, making five in each fixture so far. He has recorded only two wins so far and is reeling from a 3-2 home defeat to Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

The headlines have focused on the boardroom since then given the shock departure of sporting director Dan Ashworth. But Amorim has also been critiqued for his constant change-ups, something Gary Neville says shows the coach's lack of contentment with what he's seeing.

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“When you keep changing players and taking five players off, you’re basically [sending a message] to all of them effectively, because they've been left out at the start of the game because you don’t trust them," Neville said.

Amorim will look to add more stability with Thursday’s trip to Czechia when United take on Viktoria Plzen in the Europa League. A number of players may expect to be handed more minutes with nine of them featuring in each of his matches so far.

While this would have been anticipated for Andre Onana and Bruno Fernandes, it has perhaps given a boost to the likes of Matthijs de Ligt and Manuel Ugarte.

But there are four other players who have either yet to play or been fielded just once under Amorim so far. Nearly all of them have a common theme in age.

Eriksen, 33 in February, has only been used once so far by Amorim. He has failed to get onto the field since his 68-minute stint on the coach’s