Manchester United will be handed £100m FFP bonus from nightmare season

Searching for positives in this Manchester United season is becoming increasingly difficult. You could probably make a case for Andre Onana, perhaps for Rasmus Hojlund. The FA Cup could yet prove unexpected salvation. But the legacy of this campaign will be what it delivers in years to come, as Erik ten Hag touched on recently.

The injury crisis that has plagued United almost constantly this term has limited Ten Hag's options, but it's also offered up opportunities to youngsters and for the last two weeks United have fielded three teenagers in their starting XI, with Willy Kambwala joining Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho in the team.

Garnacho's promise has simply been fulfilled this season and for all that his social media activity on Saturday caused a stir, that was the 30th successive game he has started in all competitions. Ten Hag deserves credit for allowing the Argentine's talent to shine and he deserves even more credit for throwing Mainoo in at the deep end and allowing him to swim.

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The 18-year-old has been exceptional this season and is now a more vital cog in that midfield than Casemiro. He would have played more often but for the ankle injury sustained against Real Madrid in pre-season.

But if Garnacho's involvement was a given and Mainoo's opportunities were also on the cards, it has come sooner than expected for Kambwala, who has been the beneficiary of a defensive injury crisis that has rarely abated.

The French teenager isn't the real deal yet but then which 19-year-old centre-back is? He has also come into a team that offers such