“Embarrassing”: Legends take ManUnited seriously

“It’s starting to get embarrassing. Creativity is the big problem,” said former midfield star Scholes after the “Red Devils” lost 2-0 to West Ham on Saturday. “We’re seeing an inconsistent squad. Inconsistency is a really bad quality in all areas of life,” said Neville.

After the performance against West Ham, the two figureheads of the successful period under coach Alex Ferguson in the 1990s and 200s took aim not at the current coach Erik ten Hag, but at the players. “You spend a lot of money on players and expect a lot more from them. That’s not the case with Rashford either,” emphasized Scholes on TNT Sports.

“The easiest thing you can train in football is defending, the hardest thing is teaching them how to score goals. That has to come from the players. There’s a huge lack of that,” he said. “It’s also a very mixed team, you have to say.”

For United on Saturday it was their 13th defeat in all competitions of the season to date – the last time there was more was at Christmas in 1930, when they were ultimately relegated from the top division. In the Premier League, the current eighth-placed team has only scored 18 goals in 18 games, only bottom-placed Sheffield United have scored fewer.

“That doesn’t surprise me at all. What we see from this team is pretty much the same under every coach in the last seven or eight years,” ex-defender Neville said on Sky Sports about Marcus Rashford and Co. “You can’t help them trust, they let you down. They give you a glimmer of hope and then they lose a game they shouldn’t lose.”