A final silver bullet? Why Jean-Claude Blanc a last shot for Man Utd revival

COMMENT: He's made for the job. This job. He really is. Jean-Claude Blanc. No man is better credentialed to help Manchester United rediscover it's potential. If ever there was a dead cert, it must be the Frenchman becoming the club's new CEO...

That there's still doubts about the Frenchman's appointment is crazy. Though, for United fans, they should be encouraged seeing Blanc part of that INEOS delegation spotted at Old Trafford last week. As we say, if United are to navigate a way out of this meandering 10-year malaise, Blanc - for this column - is their one silver bullet.

He's made for this job. A rebuild. A revival. The awakening of a sleeping giant. Blanc did it with a relegated Juventus. He then oversaw PSG's emergence from one of many, to the single dominant force in French football. He's seen it. Lived it. And come out the other side with reputation enhanced. United, perhaps, would be his toughest challenge. Though it could be argued the mess he took on at a relegated Juve was actually more desperate. It's bold, we'll admit it, but for this column, in terms of English football, Jean-Claude Blanc can be as transformative for United as Jurgen Klopp has been for Liverpool - and he'd achieve the turnaround in shorter time...

Or at least, he'd die trying. Blanc has spoken in the past about taking on the crisis he'd inherited in Turin. It was all about those "first 100 days". Making decisions. Long-term decisions. To set the foundations for on and off field success.

“You arrive in this environment that is necessarily dynamic, because you have a mountain of problems to deal with at once," Blanc would recall to the FT some eight years ago, while still running things at PSG.

“Practically 100 days are decisive for the club's