It would be an understatement to say that this pre-season campaign, the eighth of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s managerial career, is different from his last.

Eighteen months ago, Solskjaer and his Molde squad escaped the sub-zero temperatures of Norway’s northern fjords for Campoamor golf resort on the Costa Blanca. Molde spent six days at the resort, which recently hosted Coventry City, and beat Selección AFC, then in the third tier of Spanish football, on one of its three football pitches.

There were not 12,000 fans watching training, nor were there hundreds of autograph requests to handle — as has been the case in the lobby of the Crown Towers hotel in Perth, where he has been staying for the first ten days of his first tour