After just 14 months in charge, Manchester United have parted ways with Ruben Amorim.
The Portuguese arrived at Old Trafford as one of Europe's hottest managerial prospects, but his unwillingness to move from a failing 3-4-2-1 system, despite not having -- nor looking likely to have -- the suitable players for it, has seen the Manchester United hierarchy cut ties.
Amorim leaves United with the worst win ratio of all permanent managers since Frank O'Farrell, and while many fans were initially willing to give the head coach time to implement his philosophy, a series of dismal results and performances saw support for the former Sporting CP boss wane.
Below, we look at five games that defined Amorim's brief stint in charge of the Red Devils.
Manchester City 1-2 Manchester United
An indifferent start to his tenure saw Amorim draw his first game with Ipswich before a flattering 4-0 win against Everton before back-to-back defeats to Arsenal and Nottingham Forest.
A trip to the Etihad was perhaps the last thing Amorim needed, but it gave him the opportunity to stamp his authority on the United squad.
Amorim had surprisingly dropped Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho, leaving their attacking options on the bench as Antony and Joshia Zirkzee. But Amorim had largely kept City quiet. A first-half goal from Josko Gvardiol is all that separated the two sides before Bruno Fernandes levelled from the spot late on, with Amad Diallo netting a dramatic winner in the 90th minute.
Tottenham 1-0 Manchester United
The £100m game. Both Tottenham and Manchester United's bosses had sacrificed their league campaigns to be 100% for the Europa League final. In what was an utterly dreadful affair, the scrappiest of goals from Brennan Johnson -- which replayed suggested was actually a Luke Shaw own goal -- gave Spurs the lead at the break.
Ange Postecoglou, in the rarest show of pragmatism, stuck 11 men behind the ball, not having another shot for the rest of the game. Amorim could find no way through, and the decision to drop Garnacho from the side appeared to have backfired. In United's biggest game of the season, they'd turned in one of their worst performances.
Grimsby Town 2-2 Manchester United
The game that probably ought to have been the end for Amorim. Rocking up at Blundell Park, sticking with his back five, Grimsby outplayed their Premier League counterparts
Amorim could hardly use the excuse it was a second string side. Kobbie Mainoo and Manuel Ugarte lined up in midfield, Harry Maguire was at the back, and Amad and Matheus Cunha supported Benjamin Sesko in attack.
The Mariners took a deserved 2-0 lead into the break, when Amorim rang the changes -- in terms of personnel, that is. In a system that saw Mason Mount deployed as a wing-back, United threw the kitchen sink at the League Two side, eventually scoring through Bryan Mbeumo, with Maguire netting a scarcely deserved equaliser, forcing penalties.
The pictures of Amorim fiddling with his magnetic tactics board in the dugout as his side struggled to break Grimsby down will live long in the memory, as will his refusal to watch the shootout as United lost 12-11 on penalties.
Manchester United 0-1 Everton
With Newcastle struggling to cope with the rigours of European football again and Tottenham labouring under a new manager of their own, as well as Liverpool and Chelsea's issues, Manchester United should have been coasting to UEFA Champions League football.
The failings of their rivals has meant they've just about hung in there, but every time they've had a chance to make a move up the table, they've been stymied by a side they should have been putting away convincingly. On this occasion, a win would've seen them jump to joint-fourth, two points behind second-placed Chelsea.
David Moyes, who had never won as an away manager at Old Trafford (and hadn't won all that many as a home manager...) travelled across the M62 with an away record that read: loss, win (against Wolves), loss, loss, draw (against Sunderland).
Captain Seamus Coleman departed due to injury after 10 minutes and Idrissa Gana Gueye to a red card for striking his own team mate three minutes later.
Incredibly, that side would take a 1-0 lead into the break, holding on for a memorable win.
Manchester United 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
The 4-4 draw with Bournemouth was a welcome reprieve from some of the football that had been served up prior, and the first half against Newcastle suggested Amorim had finally learned and was willing to change.
That Amorim would then revert to his back three at home to a side who'd taken two points from their opening 18 games was utterly bewildering. It took a deflected Joshua Zirkzee goal to break the deadlock, but United were turgid in the first half and Wolves were good value for their goal, going in at half-time level.
That Amorim felt it appropriate to swap a centre-back for another centre-back on 75 minutes when ostensibly chasing the game felt like the final nail in the coffin for a manager far too wedded to his beliefs.
