Sacking Jose Mourinho would be "terrible" for Manchester United who would struggle to recruit a better replacement, according to Paul Merson.

Merson thinks the club's failure to sign a centre-back in the summer - and issues with their long-term recruitment - have come back to bite them, but that changing manager for the fourth time in five years is not the solution.

This is United's worst start to a season in 26 years and they have conceded a quarter of the goals they did in 2017/18 after just three games - against Brighton, Leicester and Tottenham.

Nev on Jose's 'biggest challenge'

After that 3-0 home defeat to Spurs on Monday night, Mourinho stormed out of his post-match press conference, and the Portuguese has been in confrontational mood often since the start of pre-season.