Manchester United have moved quickly to rubbish suggestions that they have lined up Zinedine Zidane as a replacement for beleaguered boss Jose Mourinho.

United suffered their third Premier League defeat of the season as they were beaten 3-1 by West Ham at the London Stadium at the end of a week when they were held by Wolves and humbled in the Carabao Cup by Championship side Derby.

Mourinho is under growing pressure to reverse the slide – and he is also coming under scrutiny after a huge falling out with Paul Pogba that saw him strip the £90million Frenchman of the club’s vice-captaincy.

But a senior United source insists that claims they have approached former Real Madrid boss Zidane as Mourinho’s successor as “rubbish.”