This is rock bottom for Manchester United and the Glazers are still not listening

Manchester United players returned to the Occidental hotel in Bilbao at 1.30am, ready to pull the duvet up and bury their heads under pillows.

Luke Shaw sounded as though he was on the verge of tears in the mixed zone. Alejandro Garnacho was the most devastated on the pitch.

The players were in their own bubble, as is often the case for defeated finalists. Cristian Romero dared to prick Harry Maguire's and was barracked by the United defender. Maguire had not forgotten Romero goading him after his own goal against Spurs three years ago.

It must be tempting for the penny-pinching Sir Jim Ratcliffe to dispense of Ruben Amorim at no cost after the United head coach's generous post-match offer. Amorim promised that "if the board and fans feel that I’m not the right guy, I will go the next day without any conversation about compensation".

In a season of daft decisions at United, Amorim has got in on the act. Shaw in and Garnacho out against Tottenham. Flogging a dead horse in Rasmus Hojlund and like-for-like substitutions. Amorim does not get a free pass in this apocalyptic season.

The United fans stopped singing their Amorim chant in the second half. Nothing quite drains matchgoers of a belief that glory days will return like losing a final to Tottenham. United's end drained quicker than a bathtub.

Amorim is unnervingly honest and he is now practically daring United to dispense of him. Amorim's reputation is not intact though not in tatters, either.

He is not the biggest problem at United. The Glazers are immovable yet they have relinquished control of football operations to Ratcliffe and Sir Dave Brailsford.

Cycling is Brailsford's wheelhouse, not football. He admitted last year he is "no expert in football". He went to