Ronaldo is not the only personnel issue.
Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire, Marcus Rashford and Aaron Wan-Bissaka have all lost their way but would an interim boss have the security to tell them or drop them, or take the armband.
Is an interim boss going to make a call on David De Gea and Dean Henderson? Is he going to be the first United boss since Jose Mourinho to tell Paul Pogba his services, such as they are, are not going to be required going forward?
All decisions the new boss next summer would no doubt have something of a view on but no input.
Is the fitness of the squad what it should be? Certainly United have a lot of injuries or a lot of players who do not play with niggles. Can an interim boss effect any meaningful change in five or six months?
And what to do with the coaching staff of Michael Carrick, Mike Phelan and Kieran McKenna who, by several accounts, have left some senior players underwhelmed.
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