David Moyes predicts big change from Ruben Amorim at Manchester United

David Moyes believes Ruben Amorim could oversee a "big change" at Manchester United due to their history with wingers.

United have been renowned for their wing play for decades and their most revered squad number - the number seven - was donned by George Best, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Amorim favours a 3-4-3 formation with pure wingers flanking the two central midfielders. It remains to be seen if Amorim will move Alejandro Garnacho and Marcus Rashford into his midfield quartet or accommodate them in the front three.

United right backs Diogo Dalot and Noussair Mazraoui could double as wing backs but left back Luke Shaw has played 13 times for United in the past year and last appeared for the club on February 18. Fellow left back Tyrell Malacia has been sidelined since May 2023 with a long-term knee injury.

Moyes, who managed United for ten months in 2013-14, adopted a 4-2-3-1 formation and Belgian winger Adnan Januzaj's emergence was one of the Scot's only success stories at Old Trafford.

READ MORE: United failed to respond to Van Nistelrooy's tactical gesture

READ MORE: A 7/10 and a 4/10 - United player ratings vs Chelsea

“It’s a huge privilege to be given the chance to manage Manchester United," Moyes told BBC Radio Five Live. "There’s only a few people who ever get the opportunity to manage at that level.

"I’ve not managed at Real Madrid but for me Manchester United are the club who have a bigger support worldwide. Every newspaper in the world will have been carrying the story of Erik (ten Hag) this week. It would’ve been all over because there’s so many Man United supporters worldwide.

"So coming in and taking the job’s an incredible job. But it’s different as well, I have to say. It carries an awful lot of pressure. It carries an awful lot of media who are always looking for things on Manchester United.

"And you know it looks like he plays a different style, which should be interesting. Because Manchester United’s history has really been wingers. If you go back as far as George Best and recently maybe Beckham and Giggs and people like that.

"If it’s right - and I have seen his teams play at Sporting - you know it would be quite a big change. And to change those things takes a longer time.

"I look at Arsene Wenger when he took over from George Graham, it took time for Arsene Wenger to change Arsenal into the style that they played compared to George Graham. So, it might take a little bit of time for him to settle in. But, if he gets given the time by the board, his statistics in what he’s doing at the moment shows up very good in Portugal.”

Wenger actually took over from Bruce Rioch in September 1996. Arsenal won the Premier League title and the FA Cup in Wenger's first full season in charge in 1997-98.