Lineker, 64, has told Ruben Amorim to take a step to again sign Scott McTominay, which suggests that his combative style would be the perfect fit for his system.
The 28-year-old is currently flowering in Italy and has scored nine goals and offered two assists as a Napoli challenge for the Serie A title.
United decided to have the Scotland International leave last summer for a reported reimbursement of approximately £ 25 million.
“Scott Mctominay, scored two more goals, one of them a beauty, for Napoli at the start of the week. It is remarkable how good some of the (former) united players do it,” Lineker said on his podcast the rest is football.
“McTominay is exactly the player, I would say that it would work in an Amorim system. He is what they need. And I know they were forced to sell him because of this PSR and he is a local boy who we think is a nonsense and a ridiculous feature of this specific rule.”