The Red Devils need to compensate for a shambolic last campaign and the coach has all the resources he lacked last time
Ruben Amorim had only been in the Manchester United job for a couple of weeks when he bluntly declared "the storm will come" and he was absolutely right. The Portuguese presided over the club's worst points total, lowest league finish and lowest goal count since they were relegated 51 years ago and then oversaw defeat in the Europa League final to a Tottenham side that had finished even lower than his team and had not won a trophy in 17 years.
Just days after the defeat in Bilbao, which left United without any European football for the first time in 11 years, Amorim faced down the Old Trafford crowd and apologised to them. But he also made a pledge: "I said the storm was coming. Today, after this disaster season, I want to tell you the good days are coming."
Amorim better be right because while he has talked a very good game in his 10 months in charge at Old Trafford, he has largely been unable to get the best out of his players. But that surely has to change in his first full season, especially after being granted three top-class forwards in Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko, who scored 48 goals between them last term.
The coach has also been given the power to root out problem players like Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford and those who are not good enough such as Antony. He has effectively been given everything he has asked for. Now it is up to him to make it work.