Ruben Amorim tweak could save Manchester United millions in the transfer market

Maybe it's a coincidence, but since Ruben Amorim left Sporting, their star striker Victor Gyokeres has scored once in three games, and that was a penalty in a cup rout against a lower-league team. Meanwhile, in Manchester, Amorim's Midas touch with his centre-forwards is starting to be seen to full effect.

Gyokeres scored in 13 of his 16 Sporting games under Amorim this season but has now drawn blanks in a defeat to Arsenal in the Champions League and a shock reverse to Santa Clara domestically. Should we read much into this?

It's simple enough to draw conclusions, especially considering the form of the forwards Amorim inherited at Manchester United. Before he arrived, Marcus Rashford, Joshua Zirkzee and Rasmus Hojlund scored seven goals in their first 47 appearances this season.

For Amorim, they have seven goals in a combined seven games. It has gone from famine to feast in no time at all, and a team that looked to lack the goal threat to challenge is suddenly scoring freely. All eight goals United scored under Amorim have come from forwards, with Alejandro Garnacho netting the other.

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All but one have been scored from classic forward positions. Rashford's first against Everton was a shot from the edge of the area that deflected in off Jarrad Branthwaite, but the others have been from excellent shooting positions.

That feels telling because this wasn't a team that didn't take its chances under Ten Hag. It was more a case of a team that simply didn't create enough. For all the talk of loosening the purse strings to sign a striker, either in January or the summer, there