Manchester United have confirmed the appointment of a relatively inexperienced manager who is still in his 30s, yet it says something of Ruben Amorim’s meteoric rise that such a move does not feel like an ill-calculated risk.
The Red Devils enter another new era, with Ruud van Nistelrooy in interim charge after the club’s hierarchy finally cut ties with Erik ten Hag by sacking the Dutchman on Monday.