'Really valuable' - Matthijs de Ligt makes Ruud van Nistelrooy Manchester United plea to Ruben Amorim

Matthijs de Ligt wants Ruud van Nistelrooy to stay on the Manchester United coaching staff after his spell as caretaker manager came to an end with a win against Leicester City.

The 48-year-old has won three and drawn one of his four games in the dugout, but his future at the club will now be up for discussion with incoming head coach Ruben Amorim, who takes charge tomorrow.

Van Nistelrooy returned to United in the summer as one of two assistants to Erik ten Hag, but he was promoted to the top job when Ten Hag was sacked after defeat to West Ham two weeks ago.

Amorim is set to bring up to five members of his own support staff with him and he will hold talks with Van Nistelrooy to see whether the club's former striker fits into his coaching set-up. Van Nistelrooy has made it clear he wants to stay on at Old Trafford and De Ligt would be happy to see that, after praising the impact he has had since the summer.

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"I can only speak of my experience and I think he was really valuable as an assistant," he said. "As a manager, he knows the club. Obviously he knows what gets asked for with certain players, together with the crowd also.

“So yeah, in my opinion [I'd like him to stay], but in the end it’s the decision of the manager [Amorim].

"I think in four games, you get 10 points [one win was the Carabao Cup]. That’s really good, it’s important. Obviously we scored a lot of goals, we didn’t concede much, yeah, so it was a successful short spell."

All four of Van Nistelrooy's games in charge have been at Old Trafford and he has overseen wins against Leicester City in the Carabao Cup and Premier League and PAOK in the Europa League, as well as a domestic draw with Chelsea.

De Ligt did admit that fortune had been shining on the former PSV Eindhoven head coach, pointing to the glottony of missed chances in Ten Hag's final game in charge, to the sudden change of luck in front of goal under Van Nistelrooy.

“I don’t think he changed so much. The difference was with Erik, we had games that we played really well in, like West Ham away, with eight 200 per cent chances and we didn’t score," said De Ligt, who played under Ten Hag at Ajax and was attracted to United for a reunion with his former boss.

“I mean, the Leicester game, in the first game [in the Carabao Cup], we got five goals. Five goals that are like a shot from 30 meters, that back pass, a free-kick in the wall.

“Sometimes in football, it’s quite strange because sometimes luck takes over. And I think, obviously it’s a big compliment to Ruud, but also I think for Eric, it wasn’t that something big changed, it’s just that the momentum changed.

“And if the momentum changes, everybody gets more confident than you and you start to win games, it’s as simple as that.”