Neville: Owners are letting the club rot
GARY Neville has told owner Joel Glazer to ‘get on a plane tomorrow’ after witnessing ‘a new low’ in the club’s recent history.
In an impassioned plea, the former Reds captain accused the American owners of presiding over a ‘rotting’ club.
Neville described Saturday’s 4-0 defeat at Brentford as ‘like a men’s team against Under-9s’.
Neville added: “That Manchester United team don’t run hard enough, they don’t run fast enough, but they are absolutely drained of all confidence.
“They’re struggling badly and they have been now for 12 months, and they’re not being helped.
“Maybe some would say they don’t deserve help, they’ve got to help themselves. I get that, but I’ve been in struggling teams before, I’ve been a coach of a struggling team where you
see that a team is suffering and it needs something, and that’s got to come from above.
“But this was a new low, and it seems that continually, Manchester United can surpass their previous lows - and where and when is the lowest low going to come, because the reality of it is this is really, really bad.”
He added: “You can’t blame the individual player or the manager, you’ve got to look at above, you have to look to the very top now and this week, honestly, they are going to get peppered, those players, the coach, the sporting department, the new CEO, they’re all going to get peppered.
“But there’s a family over there in America who are just literally letting their employees take all the hits for them, and that is unforgivable.
“They’ve got to get on a plane, Joel Glazer has got to get on a plane tomorrow, he’s got to get over to Manchester and he’s got to start to divert the issues away from the club and tell everybody what the hell his plan is with the football club. What is he doing?”
Neville, who questioned the club’s ability to land the transfer targets it needs to perform the ‘open-heart surgery’ identified by interim boss Ralf Rangnick, and described Old Trafford itself as ‘decrepit’ following a lack of investment, added: “They’ve had failure for 10 years at Manchester United, the club is rotting.”