Manchester United's stingy £15million mistake has cost them their season

Making 37-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo the highest-paid player in the Premier League? Where do we sign?! Spending more than £100million for the sixth time in eight years? Say no more! Having a higher wage budget for goalkeepers alone than most clubs spend on their entire squad? Well, we need options!

But spending a mere £15million to get a top-quality manager in charge midway through the season? Well, that's where we draw the line! We're not made of money you know!

Manchester United are far from the only club that has this bizarre disposition on where they will spend untold amounts of cash to assemble remarkable squads compared to appointing managers. But clutching their purse strings when it comes to hiring coaches is odd.

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It's like spending thousands on a new bathroom suite but getting a cowboy to fit it. Now United have been left with a bath falling through the ceiling and right now it's flooding everywhere.

Saturday's dismal defeat to Everton was yet another new nadir as United somehow conspired to lose to an even more spineless side than them; a team that are struggling at the bottom of the table and who had lost to Burnley just a few days before in a relegation six-pointer after being ahead. Everton were a team so obviously there for the taking, who would only need to make a couple of mistakes before a notoriously stroppy home crowd turned vitriolic and got on their backs.

Yet United were the gutless, hapless, uninspired walkovers and the teams in the relegation battle will hope to face them right now. United's players have seemingly given up on their season.

It's quite a joke that they have, with only a handful of United's stars