Marc Skinner may have been a Marmite manager but Manchester United’s budget was spread thin | Tom Garry

He divided opinion but made the most of a small budget – his successor must work with youngsters not big signings “If we want to compete at this later stage, we’ve seen what we’ve got to do, as a club. It’s our choice now, isn’t it? We have to look at what we seriously want to achieve … It takes, sometimes, a punch in the face to wake up.” Those were the words of the Manchester United head coach Marc Skinner after his side went out of the Women’s Champions League with elimination