Rangnick: How 'obvious' Man Utd rebuild should unfold this summer

The details of Ralf Rangnick's upcoming advisory role at Manchester United are still to be confirmed, but the interim manager's beliefs on where the club should strengthen this summer could not be clearer.

Speaking to Sky Sports at United's Carrington base straight after a press conference where the thorny topics of Louis van Gaal's apparent vendetta against United and Nemanja Matic's comments about camp morale were on the agenda, the 63-year-old seems far more at ease discussing how best to elevate his adopted club back into contention for silverware.

It is less than five months since he took the top job at Old Trafford, and had the league started that day United would be fourth. It will be seen as a relative success should they occupy that position come the final day of the season, a truth which lays bare the scale of the task the next manager - and Rangnick in his next role - will have in bridging the gap to the Premier League summit.

"It's obvious that something needs to be changed, something needs to be rebuilt in the summer," he tells Sky Sports. "The team could do with some more highly-talented, hungry players who really want to develop their own careers.

"I don't think it should be that much about signing big names. I wouldn't mind big names! But for me it's important about being competitive, hungry, seeing a move to a club - and I have always believed this - not only as a big contract, a big-name club, but the next logical step in his career.

"If this happens, then you have a completely different level of motivation, aspiration, inspiration to play for whatever club that is. That should be the major target for the summer transfer window."

Of course, if it were as simple as that, why wouldn't every club do it?