Mason Mount: Man Utd blocking media noise rather than getting caught up in it

Mason Mount said Manchester United were blocking out the noise rather than getting caught up in it after under-fire Ruben Amorim claimed his players were being influenced by media criticism.

A sense of renewed hope after last season’s 15th place finish was extinguished as a stumbling start to the campaign and humiliating Carabao Cup exit at Grimsby turned up the heat on the head coach.

Amorim’s insistence on a 3-4-2-1 system had come under particular scrutiny, with the United boss surprisingly claiming in the wake of last weekend’s bruising 3-1 Premier League loss at Brentford that his players were believing the media narrative.

This angle of Mason's finish