It's eight months since Erik ten Hag turned up at Selhurst Park to watch Manchester United for the first time after being confirmed as the club’s new manager.
Ten Hag sat alongside football director John Murtough for the 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace that day as United ended their worst ever Premier League campaign in what was also interim manager Ralf Rangnick’s final game in charge.
United were on their knees. Rangnick said the squad needed the football equivalent of major heart surgery, and Ten Hag could have been forgiven for wondering what he had let himself in for.