Having starred for Burnley and made his England debut, the time is now for Jose Mourinho to build his defence around the 23-year-old
Manchester United are in the midst of an identity crisis.
Their long-standing position at the top of the Premier League's food chain has fallen since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson by those that have followed and the club's core principles have slowly been picked apart.
The somewhat chaotic nature of Jose Mourinho's debut season of Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford - shoehorning the world's most expensive player into a distinctively average first XI competing only for the Europa League - looks certain to end outside a place in the elusive top four.