Over the previous eight years, Ed Woodward has become accustomed to those difficult conversations that end with Manchester United's executive vice-chairman telling the manager he has lost his job.
Woodward has already had to tell David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho that their time is up. In the next couple of months, Woodward will leave his role, but he might yet have to slay a fourth manager in his time at Old Trafford.
The 50-year-old hasn't always handled those conversations as he might have wanted. In his book, Patrice Evra said Moyes was angry he found out he was being sacked from the media, while it was a similar story when Van Gaal was relieved of his job after winning the FA Cup for United in 2016.
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