WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT!
RIO FERDINAND branded Manchester United an embarrassment after another abject loss and mutiny inside Old Trafford. Ole gunner Solskjaer’s team were booed off following the 2-0 defeat by Burnley, and thousands had left long before full-time. Ferdinand did not hold back as doubts surrounding Solskjaer’s job grow amid the club’s worst points haul at this stage of a season for 30 years. ‘I’m sitting here embarrassed. It’s embarrassing to be here seeing this,’ the former United defender said on BT Sport. ‘You can’t defend this. Fans
were walking out. People at the top need to see this and make changes and put a plan in place. Kids in schools around the country won’t be wearing Man United shirts, they won’t be wanting to come here and see this. Nothing suggests this is laying a foundation for the future. I don’t see a pathway. Where’s the target, saying this is how we’re going to get there? Money has been spent willy-nilly in the past seven years. What’s to show?’ Fans directed their ire at Ed Woodward and the Glazer family, with United having lost three of their last four Premier League games. Solskjaer (left) claimed he had not finished clearing out the deadwood. ‘Recruitment is always going to be the talk at the moment because we’ve started a clear-out and get-players-in job,’ the manager said. ‘The most important thing is that we have to perform on the pitch and this wasn’t good enough for a Manchester United team. We are disappointed with the points tally and the performances, but we are still fifth in the table. I don’t want to hang on to us being fifth, but we work every day with these boys to improve, to get us performing better than this. ‘I can understand supporters are disappointed. We’re looking to strengthen and know we have to. We let some players go because we needed to start afresh. We know we need quality and numbers.’ United are six points worse off than at the same stage under David Moyes in 2014. Burnley have won more league matches than United since Solskjaer’s permanent appointment last March and manager Sean Dyche said: ‘There’s something really special about winning here.’