Angel Di Maria labelled Louis van Gaal the 'WORST coach' of his career
Erik ten Hag may have come out in defence of Antony on Tuesday, insisting he can be 'unstoppable' on his day, but the struggles of the £86million winger have fingers pointed at the man who brought him to Old Trafford.
All of Ten Hag's predecessors have similar instances of players who are later held up as a poster boy for their failings.
Jose Mourinho and Paul Pogba was a notable example from 2018 after their relationship soured beyond repair. Louis van Gaal and Angel Di Maria have hardly thawed on each other in the years that followed their acrimonious time together.
For Antony there may well yet be a shot at redemption - but it is hard to escape the feeling that time is running out.
Mail Sport takes a look at the poster boys of failure for United managers post Sir Alex Ferguson...
Manager: David Moyes
Of all the players on this list it is perhaps most cruel on Marouane Fellaini to include him.
But when it comes to poster boys of the failed David Moyes era, there is only one that comes to the mind of supporters.
Moyes was hand-picked by Sir Alex Ferguson to be his successor in July 2013 and, while it wasn't the original plan, Fellaini arrived on deadline day as United's only marquee signing.
It meant that pressure on Fellaini to perform was immense from the outset - and he struggled to meet the lofty expectations.
Fellaini went on to be useful for Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho in the years that followed but under Moyes at United it didn't quite click.
Moyes, writing in his 2014 column for the Mail, said: 'I felt it was unfair that he was having to carry that extra pressure and expectation, and deal with extra criticism, simply because David Moyes had signed him.'
The move to bring Fellaini to United totalled £27.5m and given
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