Erik ten Hag has been sacked as Manchester United manager.
United’s new ownership have made the move after a poor start to the season, which continued at West Ham on Sunday when they slipped to their fourth Premier League defeat of the campaign.
They sit in 14th place and have won only one of their last eight games in all competitions.
Here, we look at five games that counted against the former Ajax boss in his final 12 months in charge.
A 2-1 win over Chelsea in early December was arguably United’s best performance of the season to that point and should have been something to build on.
Instead, just three days later they were embarrassed by Andoni Iraola’s Cherries as Bournemouth enjoyed a first victory at Old Trafford – and in some style.
Dominic Solanke opened the scoring five minutes in and then hit a post before further goals from Philip Billing and Marcos Senesi led to boos from many of the United fans that stuck around until the end.
Confirmation of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s investment into United, and the overhaul of football operations it would bring, had brought a sense of optimism to Old Trafford.
But it took only a few days for United to puncture it with yet another home defeat.
Harry Maguire thought he had earned a point with an 89th-minute equaliser only for United to switch off and allow Alex Iwobi to strike a dramatic stoppage-time winner.
Even in victory there were alarm bells ringing at Wembley as United reached a second successive FA Cup final.
United were firm favourites against Championship opposition and duly took a 3-0 lead, apparently cruising to victory.
But Coventry scored three goals in the last 20 minutes to force extra-time and even thought they had won it through Victor Torp in the last minute of
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