Thomas Tuchel is once again in the running to replace Erik ten Hag as Man Utd and the German spoke eloquently about the pressures of the job a year ago.
Man Utd entered the October international break with a goalless draw against Aston Villa away from home.
Or maybe, as Erik ten Hag said, they are colleagues with whom he is in constant communication. Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Sir Dave Brailsford, Omar Berrada, Dan Ashworth and Jason Wilcox sat in a row at Villa Park. The new Manchester United hierarchy, the Ineos administration, always intended to make regular assessments of how it is going at Old Trafford.