From the moment the £12 million signing from Crystal Palace turned up in jeans and trainers for the flight to Bangkok on the first leg of United’s 2013 summer tour - everybody else was dressed in club suit and tie - there was a sense around Old Trafford that Sir Alex Ferguson’s leaving present to his successor, David Moyes, would turn out to be like one of those gifts from an elderly relative which ends up being sold at a knockdown price on eBay a few days later.