Casemiro faces a battle for his Manchester United future with new signing Manuel Ugarte

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"Everyone can have a bad day at the office," said Erik ten Hag. And if the Manchester United manager could be speaking from experience, after the traumas of the last year, few are as bad or as public as Casemiro's last day of meaningful work. When the office is Old Trafford, when a new co-worker hired to potentially take his post is sitting and watching, when his line manager acts with sufficient brutality to make it clear he is unhappy, it was worse than most.

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