We were told to trust the process.
Jose Mourinho was gone. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, his interim replacement, would buy you time by steadying the ship and avoiding the typhoons the Special One seemed to blithely steer into. The club would also use that time constructively, executing a thorough internal review as well as a complete, external, high and wide search for the best possible permanent manager.
It made sense and it fit executive vice-chairman -- read: head honcho who answers only to the club's owners, the Glazer family -- Ed Woodward to a tee. This is how you expect a guy who majored in Physics at university, became a certified accountant and then went on to work for JP Morgan as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions to think.