Not just yet, United

Nicky Butt believes it’ll be another two years or so until Manchester United will compete at the top of the Premier League again.

Their last league title victory came in 2013, with rivals Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool all winning since then.

Ruben Amorim has become the latest manager tasked with ending their drought, although fans have been warned it won’t be a quick fix.

“There’s going to be a lot of pain, there’s going to be some pain coming,” the six-time Premier League winner Butt told talkSPORT on White and Jordan.

“It’ll continue to come because he has to go and look at the players and he’s got to play ones where everyone will be going, ‘He’s not done anything for the last three seasons, why’re you giving him a game?’

“Because this new guy’s [Amorim] got to go in, he’s got to give the lads a chance, he’s got to see what he’s got. Then he can go to the board and say, ‘I don’t want that player, pay his contract’s up, pay his contract’s up, get that player for me, get that player for me.’

“Then he can start building his own [team], and it’s going to be two years, it’s going to be four transfer windows until we get where we need to be and challenging the top of the table.”

“Two years?” asked Jim White, and Butt added: “Well it might be a year-and-a-half because he’s got a transfer window in January, then he’s got the summer one, then he’s got another one in January and the summer one.

“So it’s definitely a season-and-a-half to try and get anywhere near a squad that’s going to be competing, and that’s facts. He’s not going to get that much money to go and spend.”