With relative fortunes said to be at the disposal of the new United manager next season, a plethora of new faces are expected to arrive at Old Trafford this summer

The momentum that was building around Giggs taking over as full-time manager was halted by United’s seventh home league defeat of the season against Sunderland on Saturday

Giggs apppointed player-manager for final four games of season after David Moyes’s sacking on Tuesday

United knocked out of Champions League by holders Bayern and face a spell without top European competition

United in Germany for this evening’s Champions League crunch match against holders Bayern Munich with the tie even at 1-1

Spaniard Mata was in full flow against Newcastle at the weekend as United prepare to take on the mighty Bayern Munich in the Champions League this week

Manchester has become one of the epicentres of English football in recent years, perhaps fitting for a city that has been influential since the beautiful game first took the world by storm

United put in superb performance to draw 1-1 with German and European champions and give hope of an upset next week

The biggest sides in England and Germany first met in 1998 and since then their clashes have been hard-fought and action-packed

Six years ago United tore strips off Villa though the modern day Old Trafford is no fortress of old

Lambert takes his Aston Villa side to Old Trafford on Saturday looking to inflict United’s 11th league defeat of the season and seventh at home