To borrow some Olympics lexicon, there was something of a ‘passing of the baton’ moment at one of Europe’s bigger clubs over the weekend. And as he inherited the captain’s armband from his departing skipper, Manchester United’s hopes of luring one potential Casemiro replacement to Old Trafford suffered a further blow. There is a reason why, even as Man United step up their midfield search, the name of Morten Hjulmand has not been regurgitated with anything like the same regularity as, say, Manuel Ugarte, Youssouf Fofana or Martin Zubimendi. Though Hjulmand has made no secret of his desire to p…