Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has detailed how his team come to signing players.

Speaking with the High Performance podcast, Solskjaer shed some light on the level of detail United will go into before pulling the trigger on a signing.

"In Norway it was easier for me. I knew more of them, most of them when I signed. And I knew the, maybe the agent, and I managed to, to maybe meet the parents or the boys, on the, on the sly. You're not allowed to, but sometimes you just meet. Then you, you speak.

"And I think for English internationals, for example, you speak to Marcus. What do you think of such and such team-mate of yours? Do you think he'll fit?

"Harry Maguire, for example, you follow him, you've watched his Instagram account, you watch Twitter, you watch what kind of personalities they are."

He added: "You go back to the scout that scouted him when it was 15, 16. Of course they'd spoken to them, and we just know more or less everything we need to know about the personality.

"You can't do that all the time. Sometimes you have to have, take the hunch. You watch him and you say, well, rainy day at Stoke, he steps up, he's a winner.

"Or he picked up the ball and gave it to the player, or he's respectful when he, off the pitch he shakes everyone's hand or… Those little things. You're looking at human qualities as well."