'Amorim deserves credit for Man Utd's turnaround'
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Chief football writer Phil McNulty has been answering your questions on all things Premier League.
Rob asked: I'm a Manchester United fan keen to know if you think Ruben Amorim's coaching/tactics deserves credit in light of recent results - my opinion is that another decent coach (eg Thomas Frank, Oliver Glasner) would have got defensively solid wins sooner (and beaten Grimsby) given the excellent summer transfer additions.
Phil answered: We will never know what Frank or Glasner would have achieved but, yes, I do think Amorim deserves credit for the recent turnaround, especially for the decision to leave Benjamin Sesko on the bench at Liverpool and use the very mobile front three of Matheus Cunha, Mason Mount and Bryan Mbeumo.
Amorim has had enough criticism, so let's not shy away from giving him credit when he gets it right.
In the wider context, I think United have signed two really top-class forwards in Cunha and Mbeumo. They have made plenty of very bad buys in recent times, but not here. Two very good acquisitions.