The best compliment you could offer Manchester United football director John Murtough is that nobody is really talking about him anymore. That, you imagine, is just how he likes it.
It hasn't always been like this. The clamour was for United to appoint a name as their first director of football, a Monchi, a Paul Mitchell, a Luis Campos. Not to hand the biggest job on the football side of the business to someone who had been working in the shadows at Old Trafford for seven years.
Murtough has understood the role and played his part in United's success this season, however. He got the appointment of Erik ten Hag right and has led the football department with diligence and professionalism.
