Gary Neville says Premier League club’s business managers responsible for club’s bad face

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Pundit Gary Neville commented recently saying that a particular Premier League club’s wrong business managers were the reason for the club’s woes.

Neville said this in the wake of another loss by Manchester United following a quite unsavoury season so far.

Another thrashing by a lower club Bournemouth got many talking about whether United’s coach Erik Ten Hag has overstayed his welcome and should be relieved of his so far increasingly-underwhelming services.

Speaking to Sky Sports, Gary Neville tried to turn accusative eyes away from the coach and towards the recruiters at the club, pointing out that all the money that was spent during the few past transfer windows have been seemingly misspent.

Furthermore, he discussed on what United’s new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe should do after coming in. Ratcliffe will take his place among the owners, making them four, before Christmas day.

‘Jim Ratcliffe has got to come in and sort this out and you wonder how he is going to come in and do it and that’s the concern I have,’ said Neville.

‘What we need is a change of structure at the top, that will hopefully happen in the next few weeks, hopefully that will change the way in which the sporting project is looked at because you can’t come in and leave everything as is.

‘Then maybe, with some leadership and structure around the club, maybe Manchester United can compete with some of the other clubs who recruit and do their business a lot better.’

Neville also disagrees with sacking Ten Hag for losing to Bournemouth.

‘There is no way they should change him this season, this idea of sacking him is absolute nonsense and I would not be in favour of that,’ he said.

‘I know people say you can’t blame the Glazers (for what is happening on the pitch) but yeah you can. Yeah you can because 10 years of failure and miserable recruitment comes down to the fact they have not got a sporting director or a proper head of recruitment in place.

‘That is why this happens. Ultimately managers look above them and think they haven’t got anyone above them so they might as well just do it themselves. This is all down to the leadership.

‘If it happened once, fair enough, if it happened twice you would ask a question but this is five times, five times in 10 years.

‘They have spent a billion quid, on the limit of FFP, £700m in debt, £300m going to other clubs, the bank overdraft is at £250-300m, they are £1.2bn under.’

It is still a wonder how Bournemouth was able to thrash a big team like Manchester United 3-0.

Erik Ten Hag keeps setting very bad records for himself at Manchester United.