Gary Neville believes despite Manchester United’s tumultuous start to their Premier League campaign, the club still shouldn’t sack manager Erik ten Hag
For some reason, I felt like that Bournemouth at home would be OK, but it doesn’t surprise anybody.
They’re a real turn-off in terms of their inconsistency. They’re down more than up. Chelsea contributed the other night to their performance as they were that bad.
Not many people probably felt comfortable saying it because you just feel like you’re constantly punching United. You do now think that if Chelsea hadn’t been quite as bad as they were, United would’ve lost that one as well.
Against Bournemouth, they were terrible goals to give away. They were lackadaisical, open. There are very few words left that haven’t been said already about Manchester United.
I fear for Erik ten Hag generally – not just because of this week. [Facing] Bayern Munich and Liverpool should take care of itself. What will happen, will happen.
A cycle is repeating itself again: manager has a half-decent season, he gets a lot of power. There’s no control above him to say ‘no’ when he wants players, there’s no strength of leadership, a manager then takes over and signs his own players that he favours.
We’ve seen it with Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. But coaches and managers aren’t the heads of recruitment.
They lean towards certain players they may have worked with before, and they try to merge them into a team with players that another manager has signed.
The players then don’t look like they fit together, the atmosphere becomes a bit toxic, there’s a fall-out or two, then the manager starts to come under a bit of pressure. And then usually, they get sacked.
I’ve been here so many times over the past six, seven, eight years – and it’s happening again before our eyes.
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