Ever since he walked through the door at Manchester United, Ruben Amorim has lamented the lack of time to work with his players on the training pitch. How ironic then that given a free week at Carrington, United’s head coach appears to have driven them into the ground.
What on earth were they doing to lose so many men in such a short space of time?
When Amorim spoke to us at the training ground on Friday before the 12th defeat of a wretched Premier League season at Tottenham and admitted that it had been a bad couple of days, none of us realised just how bad.