Manuel Ugarte will never forget his first day at Old Trafford. It began with Manchester United's new £50 million midfielder narrowly avoiding being soaked by sprinklers on the pitch as he was introduced to the crowd before the game with Liverpool and ended with manager Erik ten Hag warning it will take time for him to get the best from Ugarte because: "I'm not Harry Potter."
In between his prematch sprinkler escape and Ten Hag's postmatch comments, Ugarte watched his new team get dismantled in a 3-0 defeat against United's biggest rivals, with the player he has been signed to replace -- Casemiro -- substituted at half-time because he was simply incapable of performing the role he used to occupy so majestically for Real Madrid.