“It’s a real achievement to spend a billion pounds and be this bad” – Gary Neville slams Manchester United’s dismal performance against Brentford
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After Manchester United lost to Brentford 4-0 on Saturday, Gary Neville was frustrated and said it was a “real achievement” for them to play as poorly as they did given the amount of money they had spent. A 4-0 loss in the capital left United at the bottom of the Premier League, marking Erik ten Hag’s awful start to life in the league.
After losing to Brighton and Hove Albion at Old Trafford the previous weekend, United fell apart in a dismal 35-minute span as Brentford ripped them apart and sent vultures circling.
The Premier League matchup against Liverpool comes up next, and with United struggling to sign targets like Barcelona’s Frenkie de Jong, Neville took aim. “Manchester United have known for eight to 10 months they’ve needed to rebuild the squad for the summer. Ralf Rangnick [last season’s interim manager] described it as open-heart surgery,” he told Sky Sports.
“To not get the players in early – the quality of players, the number of players – that Ten Hag needed is baffling and difficult to forgive. It’s not a stalled market – teams have got their business done. Every club seems to have a plan and Manchester United’s seems to be, ‘Let’s just look at the Dutch league or players that have worked under Ten Hag”.
“That is not a strategy, you can’t do that. That was 15 years ago. You’ve got to have players identified and the work’s been done with the agents. Yes, of course, you always try to please the manager if he has got a player he’s got really good contacts with. But the one he has got good contacts with, they can’t get in: Frenkie de Jong”.
“It’s a real achievement to spend a billion pounds and be this bad. It doesn’t take much to dismantle this Manchester United team. It just takes a bit of organisation, a bit of fight, and you’re there. If you just rough them up a little bit and get a goal, they’re flaky like you wouldn’t believe.”
Gary Neville believes it would be hard for Manchester United to attract quality players this transfer window
Manchester United is under more pressure to bring in new players before the transfer window closes on September 1 as a result of back-to-back losses to open the season, but Neville is concerned that it will be challenging to attract quality players. “United in the past have always answered the fans’ anger through money and spending in the transfer market.”
“The problem is that now, no one wants to take their money. That’s a massive issue. They can’t spend the money. If you’re a player watching that performance in the first half, what are you thinking about coming to this club?” he added.
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