Man Utd: Ruben Amorim says Marcus Rashford has to show desire for return to form

Only Everton and the bottom two, Crystal Palace and Southampton, have scored fewer than United’s 13 goals in the Premier League this season. Alejandro Garnacho is their top scorer with three.

It is little wonder that Amorim has been linked with a move for one of his former Sporting players in ex-Coventry forward Viktor Gyokeres, who is riding high in the Champions League top scorers’ chart this season with five.

But Amorim is steering conversations away from those thoughts. He feels there is enough talent in the United squad to find the net more often.

“Of course there is a concern,” Amorim said. “You could feel it in the second half [against Ipswich] when we controlled possession of the ball but we were not dangerous.

“I know the question is if I need a new striker scoring goals, but I think we have to improve as a team.

“We have quality players who can score so many goals. Rasmus [Hojlund] and Josh [Zirkzee] and Rashford will score more goals. Even Bruno [Fernandes] has to score more goals. Amad [Diallo] has to be better near the goal. All these guys need to improve.”

Amorim says he is looking forward to his first home game with United, against Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League on Thursday.

Three days after he complained at Ipswich about the amount of media commitments he had to deal with, Amorim was faced with a packed news conference room on Wednesday at United’s Carrington training ground.

At least this time there were no surprise distractions, after Ipswich shareholder and pop superstar Ed Sheeran interrupted Amorim’s post-match chat on Sky Sports at Ipswich.

The merits of Sheeran’s intervention have been widely debated, and the singer has apologised.

However, for Amorim, the matter was not an issue.

“It was nothing,” Amorim said. “It was a simple question to say hello to one of the commentators.

“I was with Roy Keane. He’s a real star. It was really OK.”