Alejandro Garnacho walks through the mixed zone.
Alejandro Garnacho's future was a key talking point during the tour.
Manchester United brought their post-season tour to an end with a 3-1 victory over Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Stadium on Friday.
After trailing 1-0 at half-time, United flipped the game on its head in the second half via a brace from Chido Obi and a late header from Ayden Heaven.
It marked a victorious conclusion to a 67-game season that everyone associated with United will be keen to forget about as quickly as possible.
With the tour now wrapped up and the season officially done and dusted, full focus switches to the summer transfer window and the start of next season. But following the conclusion of the tour of Asia, which saw United visit Malaysia before travelling to Hong Kong, MEN Sport has picked out four post-tour talking points:
Moody Garnacho
After being informed by Ruben Amorim prior to last Sunday's Premier League finale against Aston Villa at Old Trafford that he will be free to leave the club this summer, the last thing Alejandro Garnacho would have wanted is to travel to Asia on a post-season tour and participate in two meaningless friendlies.
After starting the 1-0 defeat to ASEAN All-Stars in Kuala Lumpur on the bench, Garnacho was named in the starting XI for the win over Hong Kong. Despite earning cheers from supporters every time he touched the ball and attempting to be inventive when he had possession, his mannerisms off the pitch were not of somebody in a good mood.
United staff shadowed him carefully during a signing session in Hong Kong, during which he never broke into a smile. He also ignored requests to speak to journalists in the mixed zone after the defeat to ASEAN All-Stars, walking straight through, donning dark sunglasses as midnight approached.
Obi makes his mark
The biggest positive of the post-season tour by a country mile was Obi claiming his first goals for United's first-team, netting a smart brace in the win in Hong Kong. For his first goal, he swivelled inside the box and fired a clinical left-footed shot into the back of the net.
His second goal was all about his intelligent movement and reading of the game. Recognising Mason Mount, who also impressed in the second half against Hong Kong, was about to float a ball into the box, the young Dane was quick to make a run across his man and glance a header into the bottom corner.
Chido Obi netted a brace against Hong Kong. (Image: Manchester United/Manchester United via Getty Images.)
Obi, in that move alone, produced much better movement inside the box than fellow countryman Rasmus Hojlund did at any point across his two starts on tour. Hojlund's box movement is one of his biggest flaws.
Obi, meanwhile, looked razor-sharp against Hong Kong and his two goals, despite not being competitive strikes, will have done him the world of good. With a full pre-season under his belt, he could get a more prominent role in the squad next season.
Transfer warnings
The main purpose of United's trip to Asia may have been for commercial reasons, with the six-day trip expected to bank them somewhere between £8million and £10m, but that was never going to create headlines. Instead, transfer talk was always going to do fill column inches.
After Amorim, sitting alongside Mount at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, said United "cannot do much" in this summer's window, Omar Berrada, the following day, said United will have to be "prudent" in their attempts to strengthen the squad ahead of next season.
"I can't talk about specifics, but I can say we've been planning for many months now," Berrada told MUTV. "We were ready for all the different scenarios. Now we know what we need to do.
"We have a very clear idea of where we need to invest in the squad to improve. So Jason [Wilcox], his team and Ruben have been in talks for many months. And now it's a question of executing that plan and doing it in a way that is prudent. But at the same time, with ambition."
Ruben Amorim needs to make changes to his squad this summer. (Image: Yu Chun Christopher Wong/Manchester United via Getty Images.)
With that in mind, United are unlikely to be able to attack the transfer window as much as they would have liked. Instead, as a result of missing out on the improved revenue streams that would have come with securing Champions League qualification, they will have to be that little be wiser and shrewder.
New starter discovered
One of the biggest positives United have had to shout about this calendar year have been the performances of January recruit Heaven. Despite only making six competitive appearances before the end of the season and two on the tour, the 18-year-old defender has not put a foot wrong since arriving at Old Trafford.
He has a solid reading of the game, his positional awareness is spot on and his ability on the ball is excellent. As a left-footer, he could find himself ahead of Lisandro Martinez in the race to start on the left of the back-three come the end of next season.
Although Hong Kong did not provide the sternest test United have ever faced, Heaven, following his half-time introduction, was able to progress the ball really well from deep areas and help his teammates get up the pitch. Those ball-playing credentials in a centre-back and becoming more and more important in the modern game, and United appear to have uncovered a gem.