Squad is focused on what Amorim wants – Mount

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.

- By SIMON PEACH

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 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.

But Mount dismissed that after saying the team were "100 per cent behind the gaffer”, having scored the opener in Saturday's much-needed 2-0 win against Sunderland.