Manchester United can learn from another Red playbook

For an idea of how Jose Mourinho got it so wrong at Old Trafford and what Manchester United now need to get right, a good place to begin is with the first press conference the last manager he’d lose to held, writes Kieran Shannon.

When Jurgen Klopp was presented as Brendan Rodgers’ successor at Anfield — the same venue that at the weekend staged not so much Mourinho’s last stand as his last collapse as United supremo — it didn’t take long for him to be asked about the dubious quality of squad he had inherited and how active he planned to be in the transfer market.