Erik ten Hag might feel another set of eyes on him at Old Trafford this weekend when Sir Jim Ratcliffe takes his seat in the directors' box for the first time since INEOS agreed a deal to become minority owners of Manchester United.
Ratcliffe and Ten Hag met at Carrington last week and had a productive discussion, along with INEOS' head of sport Sir Dave Brailsford, but as much as they might have discussed a vision for the future, the predicament Ten Hag currently finds himself in is inescapable.
We are in mid-January and this is still a United team that has lost more games than it has won in 2023/24. They are closer to 13th than they are to fourth.
Yes, Ten Hag has had injuries to deal with, but some of the criticism levelled at the manager has been increasingly fair this season.