Manchester United's top brass, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has pinpointed the one manager he believes the club should never have hired. Since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013 - who guided the club to its 13th Premier League title - a total of 10 individuals, including caretakers and interim managers, have taken up the reins at Old Trafford.
All aspired to restore the club to the zenith of English football, but all fell short. Now overseeing all football operations at the club, billionaire Ratcliffe is banking on Ruben Amorim to break this trend.
The Portuguese was his first managerial appointment after severing ties with Erik ten Hag, whom he had inherited and subsequently awarded a four-year contract last summer. Earlier this week, the INEOS boss confessed that extending Ten Hag's tenure was an error.
However, he feels the most significant blunder was appointing David Moyes, handpicked by Fergie himself, as his successor. "Look, I like David Moyes, and I think he's a really good manager, but to go from Sir Alex Ferguson to Moyes is not where I would have gone," Ratcliffe candidly told The Times.
"Moyes stepped into the shoes of Ferguson, who's won the Premier League 13 times, who won the Champions League twice and then you're handing over to a guy that has never managed big players and had never won anything.
"He's not necessarily got the personality to stand in front of them all. And I don't think Real Madrid would have made that choice as coach.
"If you look at coaches, a club can't always get it right, but they should have found the best chief executive in the world, and the best coach in the world, because Manchester United is the best club in the world. Instead they got both of those decisions wrong."