Manchester United held talks with a host of managers over the summer – the Red Devils negotiated with Thomas Tuchel as well as Roberto de Zerbi, Thomas Frank, Marco Silva and more – but quickly shifted their focus to Ruben Amorim once Erik ten Hag’s position became untenable.

Manchester United’s new boss Ruben Amorim has been to Carrington to greet some of his new players and told them they will have fun together. The Portuguese jetted to Manchester earlier in the week with his new staff to meet the top brass at the club.

Manchester United are still waiting on visa approvals for Ruben Amorim and his backroom staff ahead of their first training session at Carrington early next week. The visa process for Amorim and the five staff members who have followed him from Sporting could only be finalised once they arrived in the country.