Carrick earned a two-year deal after winning 12 of his 17 matches in charge last season and leading United back into the Champions League following a two-season absence.
But, much like what happened with Solskjaer five years earlier, the new season has fallen apart dramatically. United sit 13th in the Premier League, only three points above bottom-placed Sunderland.
United responded to a surprising opening-day defeat against newly promoted Hull by coming from behind to overcome Ipswich a week later, but they have not recorded another Premier League victory since then. Their sole additional win across 11 matches in all competitions came against Azerbaijani champions Sabah FK in the Champions League.
The latest defeat extended their winless streak to seven matches, their poorest sequence since Louis van Gaal’s side went eight games without a victory between 25 November and 28 December 2015.
Joshua Zirkzee’s stoppage-time consolation goal was the only thing that spared United from matching the second-heaviest European defeat in their history.
The result appeared even more humiliating given that Como were competing at semi-professional level in Serie D before crowds of only a few hundred when United last became European champions in 2008.
The uncomfortable truth is that if Como standout Nico Paz—who scored after just 118 seconds, set up the second goal and netted the third—decided to leave, nearly every major European club would pursue him, while United would have little realistic chance of securing his signature.
United host 15th-placed Bournemouth in the Premier League on Sunday, aware that before last season’s remarkable 4-4 draw, the Cherries had claimed 3-0 victories on each of their previous two trips to Old Trafford.
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