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Another week goes by and another Manchester United player causes a stir by airing negative views in public.
Bruno Fernandes' criticism of head coach Michael Carrick's tactics against Como followed last week's outburst by Lisandro Martinez, which came on the back of United's 2-1 defeat at Atletico Madrid.
The Argentina centre-back threw his full support behind Carrick, instead targeting the club's hierarchy, in particular director of football Jason Wilcox.
Martinez said the club had not signed enough players over the summer and had left Carrick under-equipped to juggle a domestic and European campaign.
"We did a fantastic season last season and now we expect more from the top, more players to compete because many teams bring many players as well," Martinez told Amazon Prime Video.
"I expect more [investment]. 100%. I expect more from our technical director [Jason Wilcox].
"I have to be honest, as players we have to do more but it is also important when you make a strong squad to be ready for this kind of night.
"Tonight it is easy to [blame] the coach, easy to say the players but also we have to see other areas."
Martinez later apologised for his comments, saying the "frustration of defeat led him to express how he felt". He was punished by the club but was not dropped by Carrick and started Sunday's 1-1 draw at Leeds.
Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, speaking as a pundit on broadcaster CBS Sports, saying Manchester United "needs" to change the management.
"When he talks about pressing, whether it's man to man or zonal, for years, Bruno Fernandes has meant Manchester United can't press because he does things for the crowd.
"I commentate on games watching Man United and he runs all over the place like a kid in the schoolyard for the supporters. They all think he's working hard, he's not. He's killing the rest of the team doing it. He's not playing in a successful era for Man United.
"Years ago, there was a captain called Bryan Robson, one of the greatest players to ever play for Man United because he played for the club, he didn't throw the manager or the players under the bus.
"He kept fighting for Manchester United and watching him throw his arms up every week constantly in a game is an absolute disgrace, calling the manager out considering how he's performed this season on the pitch.
"Awful attitude and not what a Manchester United captain should be.
"It's not about the manager, it's everything about the club. There's no doubt, the manager needs to be changed now. This can't go on for a club of this stature. But I'm glad he came out and said that about Fernandes."
Reacting to Bruno Fernandes' comments, CBS Sports pundit Jamie Carragher was in shock at what he heard - branding "awful attitude" Fernandes a "disgrace" and declaring his actions as 'not what a Manchester United captain should be'.
"We said Lisandro Martínez was bang out of order last week for calling out the hierarchy above him. For Bruno Fernandes to do that is a disgrace really," Carragher said.
"When you think about last season, he got player of the year. That was on the back of Michael Carrick becoming the manager. He wouldn't have got that award without Michael Carrick, because Michael Carrick put him back in his rightful position and he then went on to have a fantastic season because he's a talented footballer.
"But when you think of him as a footballer, he's a talent, but in terms of attitude and the way he goes about things, it's not right at all.
"And he's reacted like that because he's been brought off and he's been embarrassed tonight by the manager as he brought him off. And when he talks about pressing, whether it's man to man or zonal, for years, Bruno Fernandes has meant Manchester United can't press because he does things for the crowd.
"I commentate on games watching Man United and he runs all over the place like a kid in the schoolyard for the supporters. They all think he's working hard - he's not. He's killing the rest of the team doing it.
"Years ago, there was a captain called Bryan Robson, one of the greatest players to ever play for Man United because he played for the club, he didn't throw the manager or the players under the bus.
"He kept fighting for Manchester United and watching him throw his arms up every week in a game is an absolute disgrace, calling the manager out considering how he's performed this season on the pitch.
"Awful attitude and not what a Manchester United captain should be."
Joe Cole
Former Chelsea and England midfielder on TNT Sports
Bruno Fernandes is absolutely questioning the tactics and it doesn't matter if he's right to do so. You cannot do that - that's sacrilege.
I've played for managers I've played for where you don't agree with the tactics and you might say that to your mate or your wife. You don't come out, as captain of the club, and question the manager.
He doesn't even do it properly. If you're going to do it, come out and and say it with your chest. He's saying it and he probably thinks he's being clever - 'well I didn't really say it, gaffer'.
You can think the manager has got the tactics wrong, that's fine. Go into his office tomorrow morning and have a conversation but to come out in front of the nation as club captain and question your manager is simply unacceptable.
If Michael Carrick was angry about the 4-1 scoreline and the manner of Manchester United's capitulation against a Como side playing in their first Champions League campaign, then Bruno Fernandes' scathing post-match interview will not have improved his mood.
The United captain turned on the club's head coach, criticising his tactical approach.
"It's a decision from the staff to not press man to man and sometimes leave space behind and try to get the ball, but sometimes when you give too much the ball to these teams they get confidence," he told broadcaster TNT Sports after the humiliating defeat.
Asked directly whether Carrick got his tactics wrong, Fernandes added: "That's on the manager and staff to see it, not me. Sometimes you have to be more brave under pressure, take the risk of pressing high and making them uncomfortable."
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