The storm is coming. Manchester United will be found out. They were Ruben Amorim’s words, yet he was neither scaremongering nor indulging in needless negativity. The 39-year-old has cut a smiling but demanding figure so far; by his own admission, he was a little surprised by the sheer size of United and yet, while he faces a huge task to restore them to past glories, he is aware patience will not be infinite.
He faces the toughest test of his brief reign to date with Wednesday’s visit to Arsenal. He admires Mikel Arteta, seeing a manager further on his journey of reviving a fallen giant as something of a role model and yet stresses that United are a different case. They always are.
