A common refrain – from us as much as anyone else – was that Ruben Amorim was a fool to take over United mid-season when he could and should have waited to take charge in the off-season and be able to ...

It’s a far cry from the pre-season tours of yesteryear, and where Sir Alex Ferguson and former captain Roy Keane once had a stand-up row during the club’s training camp in the Algarve back in 2005.