Glum and sullen, Manchester United's players arrived back in the UK in the early hours of Friday with their manager's barbed words still ringing in their ears.
The morning after the night before, as United contemplated another miserable defeat - this time to Fenerbahce in the Europa League, there wasn't a smile to be seen on the faces of the Red Devils' expensively assembled squad.
That won't have been helped by Jose Mourinho's comments after watching his side slip to a 2-1 loss which leaves safe passage out of their group hanging in the balance.