"Sire, it is said that the Manchester United players are revolting." And they're not much better on turf either. 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 who picks the team, he is accountable to you.
He will bear the consequences of your actions. That is not to argue that Michael Carrick is remotely blameless for United's faltering start to the season, let alone the game plan at Como. Fernandes was not wrong in his assessment that allowing Nico Paz, Martin Baturina and Jacobo Ramon the space and time to pick a pass was probably going to imbue a very capable opponent with confidence.
He was of course wrong to air those concerns in front of television cameras. Far further beyond the pale, however, was what appeared to be Fernandes' refusal to play along to the plan that Carrick had assigned to his side. With less than 26 minutes played, Fernandes failed to control a pass from Mason Mount as Ramon closed in, the sort of error that was at least partially on the receiver.
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