Erik ten Hag's assistant, Mitchell van der Gaag, has impressed during the open training sessions during Manchester United's pre-season tour and, for Darren Fletcher, Van der Gaag brought back memories of his childhood in Scotland.
Van der Gaag spent two years with Motherwell and graced the Scottish Premiership Panini album a couple of times. Fletcher vividly remembers Van der Gaag's flowing locks back when overseas players were a novelty in the Scottish game and the technical director asked fellow Scot and United analyst Paul Brand to dig out an image of their new colleague. Also read: Our interview with De Gea on his future and Ten Hag Even though Van der Gaag's Panini image comes up on Google, Brand asked his mother to dust off his album and send him an image.
United are flying straight back to Manchester after their final friendly in Australia against Aston Villa and Ten Hag has given the players Monday off.
They are due back in on Tuesday and fly to Oslo for their penultimate friendly against Atletico Madrid late on Friday and United will leave straight after the Saturday lunchtime fixture ahead of their final friendly against Rayo Vallecano at Old Trafford on Sunday.
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