Gary Neville explains why Manchester United season cannot end soon enough
Gary Neville says the season cannot end soon enough for Manchester United and says he is feeling “low” about the club’s current struggles.
United put in a pedestrian performance in the 1-1 draw with Leicester at Old Trafford on Saturday. A result which could have been worse had James Maddison’s second-half goal not been ruled out for a foul on Raphael Varane.
Still, the result leaves United struggling to finish in the top four. Tottenham, Arsenal and West Ham all sit above United, with the north London pair three points ahead, while Arsenal also have two games in hand.
It will need a major push for Manchester United to finish in the Champions League places. While they will also finish a fifth-successive season without any major silverware.
It’s a fact that has angered former United defender Neville previously. But now the Sky Sports analyst says he is just left feeling down.
He said on the Gary Neville podcast: “They just need to get to a point whereby football basically stops and then they can reset and they can get a new manager into the club.
“But that isn’t just going to be the answer. This has been going on for a long time now, this type of feeling.
“I feel quite low today, not in an angry way, there’s times in the past where I’ve felt angry. I feel quite low tonight having watched that performance because I feel as though another season has drifted away.
“It has been poor all season, before Ralf Rangnick it was terrible, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer couldn’t get anything out of these players. Ralf Rangnick’s struggling to get performances out of them now.”
After the Leicester draw Rangnick pointed out that he thought his players were second best with regards to “physicality”.
Rangnick concerned about ‘physicality’
The interim coach has also said he has told the United board to build a team over the next five years that fits the club’s DNA.
“Manchester City and Liverpool…have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years – all of them under the premise of how the coaches want to play,” the manager said. “I told the board this is what has to happen [at United],” said Rangnick.
“Whenever the new head coach is clear. It has to be: how does he want to play and what kind of players do we need for that? Then we come back to DNA, speed, physicality, tempo. What do we need? This team does not lack technical players, it can do with more physicality.
“It takes right decisions and [clarity over] where you want to go. What kind of players, want kind of manager and then, in every transfer window, try to get the best possible.
“This is rocket science. It has to be done and, if that happens, it does not necessarily need three or four years. Maybe in two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
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