It's hard enough selecting Manchester United's greatest manager when the outstanding candidates are limited to merely two exceptional Scots knights so the task of picking an XI of the club's best players over the past 140 years is both a mug's game and a privilege. It is, of course, very much a subjective selection so please feel free to dispute this evaluation and nominate your own XI or other candidates for specific positions in the comments section below.

Peter Schmeichel

An enormous physical and vocal presence in the goalmouth, Peter Schmeichel’s imposing size, agility, determination to disarm each cross with the contempt King Kong showed for biplanes and express distribution gave United an air of invulnerability and swaggering dominance for eight seasons.

Ask most managers for an archetype of their perfect modern goalkeeper and it is likely they would place Schmeichel only marginally behind Gordon Banks. Played 398 Goals 1