"You could tell the fans liked him so much. You only had to watch how they reacted to him after his last match."

With Ruben Amorim arriving to assume the role of head coach, the Portuguese manager made a key decision regarding interim coach Ruud van Nistelrooy's future with the team.

Amorim inherits a steadied ship but he will dropped in the deep end when he takes charge of training this week and moulding a flawed squad into his 3-4-3 system will be no easy feat