Erik ten Hag’s team suffered a 3-1 defeat to Brighton over the weekend, which has left them in 13th place in the Premier League standings.
The club has been going through a turbulent period recently, marked by a very public dispute between the manager and Jadon Sancho, resulting in Sancho’s relegation to the youth team.
This situation followed Harry Maguire losing his captaincy over the summer.
Gary Neville is optimistic that Ten Hag can reverse the team’s fortunes, but as a Sky Sports pundit, he expresses concerns about potential hidden issues within the squad.
He articulated his thoughts: “How popular is Sancho and Maguire in the dressing room?”
“He’s got some bugs in there that we don’t know from the outside, what discomfort and uncertainty is being created on the inside.”
“You’ve got a player at the moment who is probably changing in the first-team dressing room but obviously over with the academy.”
“You’ve got Maguire, who has been captain of these players 12 months ago, now almost alienated as third, fourth, fifth centre-half.”
“He’s got some situations in there I don’t know the damage that’s having.”
“But in terms of his work on the pitch I don’t think Ten Hag will change.”
“The fact of the matter is there has been many a manager over the last ten to twelve years since Sir Alex Ferguson left that have found challenges at Manchester United.”
“What I’m hoping at the moment is it’s just a difficult start to the season and it’s not a repeat of what we’ve seen previously.”
“We’ve seen it becoming challenging for Jose Mourinho, for Louis van Gaal, for David Moyes, for obviously Ralf Rangnick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.”
“So I hope it is not the beginning of that.”
Manchester United will have an opportunity to alleviate Neville’s concerns when they face Bayern Munich in their Champions League opener on Wednesday night. Subsequently, they have an away match against Burnley in the Premier League.
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It will be Manchester United ended the league in the 13th position with 6 points.
In the last 5 games, it has won twice and lost 3 times. In its last match, Manchester United lost 1-3 against Brighton & Hove Albion.
It has a negative goal difference after scoring 6 goals and conceding 10.
Manchester United will play the next match in Premier League against Burnley on Saturday 23rd of September in Burnley.
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