Manchester United managers have never lacked personality.
There was a gladiatorial air about our weekly audiences with Sir Alex Ferguson, and that’s just how he liked it. Louis van Gaal was wonderfully eccentric; Jose Mourinho entertainingly malevolent.
David Moyes and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer were far more amiable but no less quotable. So too Ralf Rangnick and his penchant for going off-message.
Erik ten Hag is a different kind of animal altogether. A true tracksuit coach. A football obsessive who you feel would happily block out all the outside noise — the agents, the sponsors and, yes, the media — to focus on what really matters to him.