Who to credit for Amad? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Manchester United's manager at the time, was not the driving force behind that £37million transfer deadline day deal in 2020.
Solskjaer started him twice and okayed a season-long loan to Feyenoord before Amad suffered injury. John Murtough was not appointed the football director for another five-and-a-half months and Ed Woodward will not have filed the scouting reports.
An agency was heavily involved in negotiations and did recommend Amad to United's deal-maker at the time, Matt Judge. Nearly four years on, it is a deal that is ageing well.
When United were not playing well at Southampton, Amad was playing well. He was involved in the three openings they had before Cameron Archer's momentum-swinging penalty and he was the talk of the press lounge at the interval. READ MORE: United set for Amad contract talks READ MORE: De Ligt explains how the United dressing room planned winning response to Liverpool loss In a 19th-minute foot race with Lesley Ugochukwu, Amad demonstrated he is not so much finding his feet in the United first team but found his feet.