All those years playing under Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the game’s great gamblers and champions of youth, have clearly rubbed off on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Whatever the opinions on Manchester United’s latest summer transfer window – and to judge by the #WoodwardOut and #GlazersOut campaigns trending on social media, there are plenty of angry, disgruntled supporters – Solskjaer has demonstrated he is prepared to gamble on youth.

We bleat routinely in this country about young English talent not being given a chance. Well, the biggest club in the land have just placed an enormous show of faith in nine academy graduates to help revive their fortunes after a wretched season that Luke Shaw candidly admitted this week was an “embarrassment”.

Time will tell whether Solskjaer’s roll of the dice is too much, too soon but, for Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Scott McTominay and Andreas Pereira, as well as the newest graduates, Mason Greenwood, Tahith Chong, Angel Gomes, Axel Tuanzebe and James Garner, opportunity does not so much as knock as scream out.

Of course, the difference between now and the early-to-mid Nineties is that the “Class of ’92” of David Beckham, Paul Scholes and others came into a team packed full of Premier League winners and natural leaders of men, from Peter Schmeichel and Steve Bruce to Roy Keane and Eric Cantona.