Alejandro Garnacho has an advantage Adnan Januzaj did not have at Manchester United

A new manager promoting an exciting 18-year-old winger from the academy who quickly earns a chant and is swiftly remunerated. Alejandro Garnacho has captured the imagination of Manchester United fans as Adnan Januzaj did nearly 10 years ago.

"I wanna tell you, I might as well do, about a boy who can do anything," the song went. "He comes from Belgium, his name is Adnan, Januzaj, Januzaj, Januzaj."

Januzaj was all United fans had to sing about during their worst campaign in a quarter of a century under David Moyes in 2013-14. Nicky Butt, drafted into the coaching staff by Ryan Giggs for his four-game caretaker stint, told the then-Hull City manager Steve Bruce that Januzaj was as good as Giggs.

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Butt was convinced Januzaj would have become a superstar had he possessed the mentality of the driven Giggs. Januzaj, now 28, is on loan at Basaksehir from Sevilla, having only moved to Andalusia in the summer.

Januzaj inherited Giggs's number 11 in 2014 but his cavalier approach jarred with the authoritarian Louis van Gaal. Januzaj told me in February 2021 he would still be at United but for Van Gaal.

"It was the staff - his (Van Gaal's) staff because I had to do whatever he was saying. I was a young boy, I just had to stay calm and, like we say, I just had to shut up and work on the pitch! That's it. That's the most you could do, there's nothing else you could do. You just had to accept it and enjoy and play for your football.

"If you don't have the right people, the right coaches who can push you further then it would be really difficult for you to show yourself on the pitch, to express yourself."

Januzaj also believed his own hype as a youngster. Aged 18, he was dating a