Erik ten Hag must sit at his desk in the manager's office at Carrington and wonder when he can just worry about football.
If it's not being called a liar by Jadon Sancho, it was Cristiano Ronaldo refusing to be substituted on before going nuclear in a TV interview with Piers Morgan to publicly undress his manager.
Then there were complicated legal cases involving Mason Greenwood and Antony, while now the narrative around United is not the upcoming clash with Wolves but is about Marcus Rashford and his '12-hour tequila bender' in Belfast that saw him call in sick for training.