LEGEND BLASTS UNITED STARS
ROY Keane does not believe many United players are good enough to play for the club.
The 3-1 defeat to Liverpool leaves them 19 points behind Jurgen Klopp’s league leaders and 11 points away from finishing in the top four.
“I certainly believe a lot of the players playing for United today aren’t good enough for Man United,” Keane said. “I really believe that. They are good players, but not for Man United.
“Again you look over the last year or two, the league campaign, to be so far behind the likes of Liverpool, Man City, Tottenham and Chelsea.
“We’re on about creativity, but I really think their biggest problem is defensively. You have to try and get some kind of foundation to go forward and were on about scoring a goal, you’ve got to try to keep some clean sheets. They are all over the place.
“I think if Liverpool were really at it today, towards the last 10 and 15 minutes, they could have scored four or five.” And Keane added United had ‘no chance’ of finishing in the top four this season. His former Reds team-mate Gary Neville also laid into the club criticising them for handing Jose Mourinho a new contract in January.
“The board are so naive, giving him (Mourinho) a new contract,” Neville said. “Manchester United need to reset. It’s not just the manager, it’s deeper than that. They lost control of the football club when they gave him a contract extension 18 months in.
“The minute he came back from pre-season he was at it and the club lost control. There is not that experience or knowledge in the football club above him to be able to manage or control him and handle him.
“His agent was out last week, at press conferences they don’t know what he is going to say next, and they don’t know what to do with him.”
Neville was then asked if the club would benefit from sacking Mourinho. He replied: “The problem they will have now is he would cost an absolute fortune to lose him, when you lose a manager in the season you have the situation of who comes in?
“Are they going to get the manager they want for the next three, four years at the football club? It is not just as easy as saying ‘let’s get rid of the manager’.”