In the spring of 2014, after the sacking of David Moyes, Manchester United set about establishing exactly what their future managers should look like and deliver. It is to their enduring frustration and disappointment that, almost eight years on, they are still trying to fit someone to the template.
Back in 2014, there was an acceptance following the Moyes failure that things had to change. United had tried and failed to fit Moyes in to the simple old-fashioned structure of all-encompassing managerial power left behind by Sir Alex Ferguson and it had not worked.