Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim appeared to rule out heavy recruitment in the January transfer window.

“What we cannot do is to reach January and try to do everything in urgency, make mistakes and then [it’s] ‘here we go again’ with a lot of mistakes,” he said.

“I’m not going to get [together] with [technical director] Jason [Wilcox] and [chief executive] Omar [Berrada] and say, ‘We need a lot of players’.

“We have a plan. If we have to suffer, the club comes first.

“Of course, we are in a moment where we need points, but we need to find solutions, and we are going to continue with our plan.

“You can feel in this moment we are going to struggle, but we will see.”