In Manchester United's match with Everton, Ferguille, who went to Goodison Park to watch the game, experienced emotional ups and downs. Footage from the scene showed a look of disgust as the Reds were 2-0 down, but he eventually smiled as his past side were two goals down and came back in the second half to walk away with a draw.

In the past, Everton was almost Manchester United's "point boy", and he achieved many big reversals when he led the team. However, the British media revealed that the current owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, did not want to hear any more about the old man's past, and they thought that they could bring more advanced management.

The legendary 83-year-old coach Alex Ferguson spent 26 and a half years at the helm of Manchester United before 2013, creating the most successful period in the club's history, winning 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles. After retiring as the club's global ambassador, earning £2.16 million a year, he was cut by Rajue in October last year.

Ferguille was just one of the people who was sacked by INEOS, and the club lost 250 staff last year and could cut another 200 or so next week. It remains to be seen whether INEOS will be able to revive Manchester United, but they are making a big push to cut costs. Manchester United currently have more than £500 million in debt and more than £400 million in transfer fees to pay.

It is reported that one of the major departments that have been redunded is scouting, and United intend to use data analysis rather than on-site visits to find new player targets. This is different from the talent mining model of the past, and Lajue and INEOS believe that this is the link to the times.

According to the Daily Mirror, Sir Dave Brailford, Irajue's number one confidant and INEOS sporting director, and his subordinates are tired of hearing how Ferguille led the team to dominate the Premier League and even Europe from the 90s to the beginning of the 21st century. Some of them are also said to have blamed Ferguille for United's stagnation since 2013, suggesting that he has not kept up with modern developments in coaching and scouting, leaving the club behind rivals such as Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal.

The newspaper quoted a club insider as saying: "INEOS absolutely does not want to have anything to do with the past. They don't want to hear about how United won 13 Premier League titles, and they won't accept any suggestion that clubs can learn from the greatest coach of all time. It's good to draw a line from the last 12 years and say, 'Let's move on', but they go a little too far and indulge in refusing to mention that Manchester United were one of the best teams in Europe."

There may be some truth in the blame of Rajue and INEOS, the model of leading the team is old-fashioned, but after his retirement, Manchester United has enough time and money to reform, and what he failed to do is the problem of the later management, including the Lajue team itself, and is not qualified to "dump" the predecessors. You can refer to the arch-rivals Manchester City, who will not need 10 years to change their faces.

In the year since he took over, Rajue has made a number of wrong decisions, the most obvious being to renew Ten Hag's contract after leading United to the FA Cup, buying him for £200 million, sacking him for more than £10 million a few months later, and giving Ruben Amorim a £20 million release fee. What was even more ridiculed was the 3 million pound forced poaching of Newcastle United's sporting director Dan Ashworth, after 5 months of "gardening leave", Ashworth was only in office for 159 days, and was fired because of a conflict with Rajue, and left with a 4.1 million pound termination fee.

ESPN's well-known Manchester United correspondent Mark Ogden reported that Rajue was unhappy with Ashworth's signings at the time, especially De Ligt. The signing of the Dutch centre-back from Bayern Munich is said to be a deal pushed by the sporting director, who wants to show his faith in Ten Hag.

"I think Manchester United hired the wrong people to do the wrong job." Ogden explained, "What Ashworth is good at is building the structure of the club and putting the right people to do the right jobs. But he's not a sporting director, not the kind of character who calls Spain, Italy, Germany and Turkey to bring in or sell players. If you want someone like that, you should choose Monchi at Aston Villa."

ESPN added: "The Manchester United hierarchy don't want De Ligt, he was a signing made by Ten Hag. INEOS believe the squad has plenty of centre-backs, but Ashworth believes Ten Hag has just been offered a contract and should bring in the players he wants to show their confidence in him. Perhaps you could say that this is Ashworth's weakness and mistake."