Amorim will hope he can bring the buccaneer spirit he showed at Brentford to United. “We had in our heads that we could win every game,” Mbeumo says. “So we just try to not be scared of the names in their team and then we just try to play.” The only time Mbeumo does get nervous is when playing the piano, his other cerebral hobby.

Manchester United are riding high after scoring four against Bournemouth v at Soldier Field in Chicago during the Premier League Summer Series, but their manager’s comments after the game might excite fans even more than the performances they’ve seen in the U.S. so far.