McTominay is living Napoli ever after... less so United

AS IF the week needed a final exclamation mark to reaffirm the mediocrity of Manchester United, it came in Naples on Friday night.

- ANDY DUNN

Against Cagliari, a cross came over from the right flank and Scott McTominay hooked an acrobatic volley into the net for his 12th goal in a Napoli shirt.

Romelu Lukaku doubled the home side's lead and the win meant Napoli were crowned Serie A champions.

Lukaku is a former United player, but it is McTominay’s story that provides another damning chapter to the grim chronicle of United's remarkable slide into ineptitude.

And McTominay’s brilliance in Serie A highlights the one failing that eclipses all others - and there are many of those - at Old Trafford.

Quite simply, whoever has been in charge of buying and selling players has left the club in a mess.

In the modern era, has one club ever registered a list of mistakes as long as Manchester United's?