It felt like the ultimate 'what if' scenario for Manchester United. Frenkie de Jong collecting possession midway inside the opposition half and floating a wonderful pass for Cody Gakpo to score. It could easily have been in United red, but instead occurred in the oranje of the Netherlands.
United spent most of the summer trying to sign De Jong from Barcelona and also held an interest in PSV Eindhoven winger Gakpo for much of the window, before instead committing an eye-watering £85.5million to sign Antony from Ajax, Erik ten Hag's top attacking target.
De Jong's desire to remain in the Champions League and stay with Barcelona has only led to a Europa League meeting with United anyway in February, and few United fans would swap him for Casemiro now, with the Brazilian making an immediate impact after his £70million summer move.
