Amorim’s side have lost 17 of their 33 Premier League matches, while winning just nine times. Now, the Portuguese head coach is under pressure after a 17th Premier League defeat in 33 matches following Saturday's 3-1 loss at Brentford this weekend.
United appointed Amorim as Erik ten Hag’s successor last November and his arrival has failed to turn the club around despite reaching the Europa League final last season.
Amorim's win percentage stands at just 27.3 per cent, lower than any other manager to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson, but as pressure grows, Shearer has explained on The rest is football podcast why United are unlikely to sack him anytime soon.
“I genuinely believe that the owners or the people that are running the club at the minute have made that many errors in the last two years or 18 months since they've been there.
“It would look terrible to admit another error and sack (Amorim).”
Amorim has repeatedly stated that the only way for United to change their way of playing is to get rid of him and as results do not improve, the board may have to consider letting him go before it is too late.
TalkSPORT report that sacking him now would cost Manchester United around £12M and that waiting until after November 1st would help ease the cost of removing him from the role.