It has been reported heavily throughout the week, but Thursday morning brought official confirmation from Manchester United that they have terminated the contract of head coach Michael Carrick. Mauricio Pochettino is now expected to take charge but, as Henry Bushnell reports, he may yet continue in his role with the USMNT for two games against Haiti.
The very public nature of Carrick's dismissal brings yet more questions for those in senior executive roles at the club, as well as the owners. Was this just fairly normal, albeit unsavoury, football industry practice, or should it have been handled better?
Carrick managed just 16 league games in this spell in the job; an uplifting end to the last campaign, securing Champions League qualification, could not have been in greater contrast to the start this time around. We look at what went right and how it unravelled so quickly.
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