In the executive seats, alongside Patrice Evra, was Ed Woodward, wearing a big pair of sunglasses. Beneath those shades, surely, the Manchester United executive vice-chairman will have been wincing. This was as far from what he would expect from United, what he wants from Jose Mourinho, as was possible.

As well as West Ham played United were, quite frankly, too easy to beat and too quickly lost heart. They were too negative, by far, which started the moment the team sheets were delivered – with a back-three, Scott McTominay on the right of that, Nemanja Matic and Marouane Fellaini in midfield and Alexis Sanchez not even in the squad. It looked, it was, a mess. Where was the creativity? Where was the pace? Where – damningly – was the motivation, the leadership, the game-plan.

Mourinho’s frustration with his team was clear but he has to look at himself. As vast as the technical area is at the London Stadium he strayed beyond it as he tried to cajole and turn around his team but this is a pale shadow of United; as pale and insipid as those off-colour pink shirts they wear.

Not only have they now lost three of their seven Premier League games – including defeats to Brighton and West Ham – but they have a negative goal difference and seem solely reliant on trying to score goals from long balls, crosses or set-pieces. For all the hundreds of millions of pounds spent there is no incision.