Manchester United are entering a potentially historically bad period of form, with only two wins in 11 games so far this season in all competitions. Currently, the Red Devils are on a run of seven games without a win. 

After the dismal display against Como, leading to a 4-1 defeat, the pressure has been ramped up on Michael Carrick, with many reports suggesting his future remains in the balance. 

The games do not get any easier for United as they are set to take on Bournemouth, who are fresh off a 3-0 victory over AC Milan in the Europa League. 

United have not beaten the Cherries in their last six attempts, with the last win coming in the 22/23 season under Erik ten Hag.

After joining from Feyenoord in 2022, Tyrell Malacia enjoyed a decent start to his Manchester United career, when he offered competition to Luke Shaw, at times starting ahead of the Englishman.

However, his career took a massive hit after some knee discomfort first felt towards the end of the 22/23 season led to him being out for 500 days, before returning against Young Boys in Ruben Amorim's first game at Old Trafford for Manchester United. 

The Dutchman left the club last summer, and while he admitted to Simon Stone at the BBC that he has no regrets, he revealed some of the toughest periods he had after returning from his injury. 

He said about his initial return: "As a player you need to understand if you play for a big club like Manchester United, sometimes you don't get the time. Even at that time I still wasn't 100%, but it was good for me to get game time and adapting to the game.

"After that period of six months, I came back in summer, I thought ', OK, now it's going to happen, I'm going to get a fair chance'."

Yet he was not given that fair chance, as he was forced into exile alongside Marcus Rashford, Antony, and Alejandro Garnacho, all of whom left before the end of the window.

"I don't know where that came from, I don't know if it was Ruben or higher up or anything, but I never said anything about it, I just kept working and doing my thing even though it was difficult sometimes training in a group of five," he said.

Manchester United have been ruthless in some regards, but in all the wrong ways since INEOS came into the club. Despite what you think of the likes of Rashford, Antony, Garnacho and Malacia, being forced into exile and training away from everyone causes problems for everyone.

For the player, at a human level, you become isolated from everyone. Then, for the club, when it comes to offloading players, you lose almost all leverage and value, with the entire world knowing you want them gone. 

As for Malacia specifically, his circumstances are particularly sad. While the decision to try to move him on was not wrong, given the club moving beyond the Dutchman and needing money to reinvest, the treatment of a player who had been out for 500 days in exile is inhumane.  

The defender is right that at a club like United you don't always get time. The club should be ruthless by moving on players if they have not proved their worth after a year or two to avoid a pile-up of "deadwood", but there is a way of doing it without forcing players into exile.