Less than 12 months after finishing as the Premier League's runners-up, Manchester United have spent the entire season lurching from one disaster to the next.
While Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side were nowhere near Manchester City at the top of the table last term, both figuratively and literally, nobody expected United to be languishing this far behind the league's big-hitters this year. But as both Roy Keane and Gary Neville alluded to after Tuesday night's crushing 4-0 defeat to Liverpool, this current Manchester United side is unrecognisable from the team that dominated English football for decades under Sir Alex Ferguson.
Erik ten Hag is set to become the fifth man to try and emulate the iconic Scotman's success since he stepped down back in 2013. The 52-year-old has done a sterling job at Ajax, winning five trophies in his four years at the helm - but the task that awaits him at Old Trafford is a different beast entirely.
