Manchester United are set to appoint Ralf Rangnick as interim manager following the departure of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer from Old Trafford.
The MEN Sport understands that Rangnick will sign a six-month contract to act as interim manager, followed by a two-year spell at the club in a high-level consultancy role, where he will help guide the club's major decision-making going forward.
The two-year consultancy role should be enough to excite United fans, but in the immediate future, he will be tasked with getting United's season back on track and securing top four and possibly silverware.
United fans have been raving about his philosophy and style of play, which is quite easy to find out and learn about as Rangnick has been fairly open in discussing these things in a number of interviews and seminars, but not much has been said yet about how this will apply to the current squad.
There has been speculation about how the German manager will co-operate with Cristiano Ronaldo, his pressing numbers having been the cause of much debate and also there are have been fans wondering which players will immediately fit into his style of play, such as Fred and Jadon Sancho.
But one player who will most likely improve under Rangnick who many fans have overlooked is Aaron Wan-Bissaka. Under Solskjaer, the English right-back has been something of an enigma. Signed from an apparent shortlist of 804 candidates, it seemed incredibly strange when recently it seems that the Norwegian wanted to sign a more attacking right-back to fit in his style of play.
But under Rangnick, Wan-Bissaka could become a vital part of his side and to understand why you need to look at one of the signings he made while he was Sporting Director at RB Leipzig who has gone on to be a vital part of the side, which is French defender Nordi Mukiele.
Now if you were to watch Mukiele play, you wouldn't see a player that fits the mould of what we have come to understand in the Premier League as the 'perfect right back'. He doesn't create high levels of chances from out wide or provides crosses with the ball and in fact what you more describe him as is a wide centre back or an auxiliary centre back.
He is tall and dominant and keeps the defence secure by winning a number of headers at the back post and also defending high up the pitch.
In transition, he carries the ball well and then creates triangles of passing with the wide midfielders in front of him and also the closest member of the midfield pivot, constantly moving and finding space to exploit.
These are all things that play to Wan-Bissaka's strengths, he has shown he is decent at carrying the ball, running into space and also beating defenders one-on-one, and Rangnick would look to improve this, fully realising the strength of Wan-Bissaka by allowing him to defend on the front foot rather than reactively.
This would allow United to be the aggressor, win the ball back within Rangnick's favoured 'eight seconds' and then transition into an attack and link up with the players around him.
Wan-Bissaka under Solskjaer didn't regress, but he also didn't improve and was then made the scapegoat when the manager tried to shoehorn him into a role that he didn't suit him in the pursuit of trying to copy Trent Alexander-Arnold at Liverpool and Reece James at Chelsea, instead of doing the smart thing and playing to the strengths of the players he had.
Rangnick will look at this squad and build a tactic that suits the players he has at his disposal and I'm sure that he will enjoy having a player like Wan-Bissaka who will allow him to regain possession consistently down the right-hand side.
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