OLD TRAFFORD — It isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but body language can tell you so much about what a manager is thinking.
When Ruben Amorim oversees a rare Manchester United victory – 14 from 44 league games during his tenure so far – he tends to head straight down the tunnel, a short punch through the air towards supporters on occasion is about all he ever musters.
When United slump from one nadir to the next – a much more regular occurrence – Amorim wanders out onto the pitch upon the final whistle, chuntering to himself, trying to avoid making eye contact even with his own players and increasingly to a cacophonous soundtrack of boos.
Maybe he is questioning his life choices. Or perhaps he is slowly coming to the realisation that he is drowning, desperately out of his depth.
Wolves travelled up the M6 on the back of 12 successive defeats, the worst run in the club’s history. They had lost 25 league games in 2025, the most by any team in a calendar year since 26 by Ipswich in 1994.
Man Utd’s players – and fans – seem to have lost faith in Ruben Amorim (Photo: AP)Even this excuse for a United side couldn’t mess this one up, the restless locals wrongly assumed. Amorim is seemingly set on securing a doctorate in doing so.
In the transfer market, United have made great strides forward. Bryan Mbeumo and Senne Lammens appear to be top signings, while Matheus Cunha has shown flashes he is exactly what the club needs.
Yet, these improvements are being smothered by managerial calls that continue to defy logic. For the first time in Amorim’s reign, the rookie boss went for a four-man defence against Newcastle on Boxing Day, a system shift he had been working towards in training for several weeks.
So, after securing a hard-earned victory, what does Amorim go and do against only the second side in top-flight history to go 19 matches from the start of a season without winning, along with Bolton in 1902-03? Back to one of the most unsuccessful systems this once-great stadium has ever seen.
"Completely different from the last one" Ruben Amorim says Manchester United lacked quality against Wolves pic.twitter.com/Y7PamXfZg6
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 30, 2025Patrick Dorgu had his best game in a red shirt against Newcastle in an advanced role, on right wing, so what does Amorim do? Back to left wing-back for you, Patrick. But hey, at least Amorim got in his customary, utterly pointless defensive substitution in the second half.
Amorim said after the match he was going like-for-like with Wolves’ five-at-the-back system. At home. Against this level of opposition. How a team on two points from 18 matches sets up should not affect the game plan of any self-respecting Champions League chaser.
All match, Amorim was in deep conversation with himself on the touchline, a despondent crouched pose his viewing position of choice.
This is 14 months into the job. He still doesn’t seem to believe he is worthy. The answers to the Manchester United conundrum just aren’t coming to him.
United have taken six points from their last five home games against 10-man Everton, 18th-placed West Ham, a Bournemouth side without a win since October, Newcastle and now one of the worst sides in English top-flight history.
Africa Cup of Nations and injury absentees have been crucial to another United derailment, but they still had £150m of talent starting in the front line against Wolves. Everton players fought each other to leave them with 10 men for 73 minutes. They led against both West Ham and Bournemouth, the latter on three separate occasions.
Failing to win these games is down to a mental fragility created by one man.
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As a consequence of last year’s dire campaign, Amorim usually has a full week to work with the players on the training ground, a chance to instil some belief in his battered and bruised footballing principles.
But failure to beat Wolves, having been forced back into Amorim’s beloved 3-4-3, suggests whatever is being said is not being taken on board by players yet to retain any faith the new regime can raise this sleeping giant from its slumber.
Boos at half-time, full-time and even for Amorim’s substitutions suggest supporters are in a similar boat.
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