Football
Man City’s need of a full-scale rebuild has never been clearer

The men who could shape Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United were sat side by side in the Old Trafford directors’ box, Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada resplendent in club suits. The man whose transfer business helped Amorim get the job was on the other side of the aisle. There was a theory that, when Hugo Viana was lined up as Txiki Begiristain’s successor as Manchester City’s director of football, it meant Amorim would leave Sporting CP for the Etihad Stadium.