Will Amorim change Manchester United or will his style alter due to the squad?

Rúben Amorim’s Sporting players throw him into the air after they routed Manchester City 4-1 on Tuesday, but the manager has work to do at United to rekindle the club’s traditional attacking vim. Photograph: José Sena Goulão/EPA

Rúben Amorim has already flagged his greatest challenge when taking over Manchester United on Monday: to make the club of Billy Meredith, George Best, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo play again in the tradition of these irresistible attacking forces.

The “wow” factor has been missing from those donning United colours for most of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era. Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s off-the-cuff counterattack play apart, the teams of David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, José Mourinho and Erik ten Hag lacked the dizzying fizz of United’s finest vintages.