Former Manchester United right-back Gary Neville has admitted that the state of Manchester United’s squad is “unforgivable” given the spending levels at Old Trafford and he has called for executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward to go as the club is seemingly in freefall.
The Red Devils lost to arch-rivals Liverpool on Sunday, a defeat far more convincing than the 2-0 result suggested, and are now 30 points adrift of the runaway leaders Liverpool, who are closing in on their first top-flight title in 3 decades.
Neville won eight Premier League titles during United’s reign of dominance under Alex Ferguson and the Englishman is currently dismayed and angry at the club’s slump and believes now is the time for the Glazer family, who own the club, to act on something.
While speaking as a pundit the 42-year-old said that he was shocked with the club’s recruitment and ownership which he cannot understand, “I can’t believe the investment that’s been put into the squad in the last five, six, seven years and you end up with that out on the pitch. I saw a statistic two weeks ago that United has the second-highest wage bill in the world. And that’s the squad they’ve got. It’s unforgivable, it really is. I can’t change the ownership of United, no one can. I’m struggling to understand why the owners have persisted in trusting that management team to oversee the building of a Premier League title-winning team since Sir Alex left.
Neville further concluded by stating that ownership of that sort should cost the Glazers their job, “If you don’t lose your job for essentially overseeing that investment, that wage bill, and putting that team out on the pitch then I have to say something is really wrong. There’s real talent in that executive team but in terms of what the club needed to do for a number of years, it’s put the best in class football operators into that club and they’re not doing it. They’re not doing it and it’s a mess.”
The 20-time league champions are still operating without a director of football while doubts persist over the suitability of their current manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
