‘We need that kind of feeling’ - Amorim reveals how Man United can recover from poor start

Amorim has brought in key players like Bryan Mbuemo, Mateus Cunha and Benjamin Sesko into the team this summer 

However, the team has endured a nightmare start to the season and are currently sitting 14th in the Premier League after six matches.

The team have only managed two wins this season, with their performance putting pressure on the manager.

Amorim believes that beyond just leaders, United needs more mavericks on the pitch, players who can single-handedly change the course of a game when momentum shifts against them, a frequent occurrence this campaign.

Speaking to Owen Hargreaves on TNT Sports, via the Sun, he said: "We need leaders, but sometimes what I am thinking is we need some crazy guys.

"[Matheus] Cunha is a little bit like that. He's a good guy, but he doesn't care who you are. Whenever he is there in that position, he'll just go with the ball," Amorim explained.

"We need that kind of feeling. Because [Harry] Maguire was captain and played for the national team, but you can feel it sometimes when things are going wrong, we go down. 

“It doesn't matter if it's Bruno [Fernandes] with the experience or Harry. That is in the past, so we need to live in the future.

"Sometimes you look at the pitch, something is going really wrong and you see Bryan [Mbeumo] with a different light because he came from a different environment," he continued. 

"And then you look at Cunha and you feel that sometimes he is frustrated, but you can feel that frustration is something like 'give me the ball', so we miss that."

"We need to forget the past and we need sometimes that crazy guy, who thinks 'it doesn't matter that the world can be on fire, I don't care'. Sometimes it's not just the leader, but it's those maverick guys that we need in the team."

Amorim is already under significant pressure, and it is unclear how much longer he can remain in the Old Trafford hot seat if results do not improve.