The biggest issue at Manchester United has been the sway between styles.

Mauricio Pochettino is someone who can continue the work that Michael Carrick has started and build on it.

Pochettino is like the United managers that really revere Sir Alex Ferguson and they are mainly former players of his. He is the first one, bar Jose Mourinho, who likes and wants to embody that Ferguson style of play whilst also having that experience and quality outside of a United background.

He almost bridges the gap between the two approaches that United have tried to do but failed to land on.

At a base level, Pochettino has the skill set, knowledge and focus on building physicality.

We saw that with Ruben Amorim because despite all of the flaws the team had, they were incredibly fit and had a good level of endurance.

They weren't playing in Europe, but that level of fitness was carried into Carrick's tenure and it allowed them to play end-to-end football in his first 16 games.

There is the capacity to get to that again even though Pochettino's not going to get a pre-season. Raising the physicality 15 or 20 per cent gives the players a platform to compete.

Some people will say United need to concentrate on winning games whilst others will say the culture and DNA needs to be close to whatever United choose to do next.

Historically, United have also been a team that have signed within the league and filled the gaps with homegrown talent.

The crowd love to support their youth players and I think the focus on the youth and their pro-activity allows them to have a really nice balance of not counter-attacking whilst sitting in your own half.

They will have their quick, direct attacks which is their traditional United style.

Appointing Pochettino could work really well.