Bruno Fernandes' rebellion in Como underlines Manchester United's never-ending problem

Eight managers since Sir Alex Ferguson have lost the players, and until there are significant changes, the ninth will too "Sire, it is said that the Manchester United players are revolting." The rabble inside the Old Trafford dressing room has been roused. Their rebellion will rage on until it ends the same way every other one does. The great ruler will dismiss himself of some unwise counsellor or another. Though it has been suggested he is safe for the time being, it is hard to see a future that does not end with sheriff Michael Carrick being run out of town. Chancellor Jason Wilcox will find himself in a hairy situation.

The banishments will come with promises that the realm's most loyal subjects will never be so mistreated again. Their cries have been heard. After all, the only shared trait of the eight men to have taken on a meaningful run of Manchester United games since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement is that the players have turned on them. Bruno Fernandes' open disgruntlement of Michael Carrick is not even that unique, bringing to mind Cristiano Ronaldo's withering, petulant dismissal of Erik ten Hag two years ago. The club that employed football management's last great authoritarian have spent more than a decade dripping the same message to the first team. The guy