Gary Neville issues Erik ten Hag and Man Utd verdict as director reveals ‘decisive decision’

Manchester United are once again picking up the pieces from a defeat, and this time in the Champions League.

Erik ten Hag’s men were expected to bounce back from their Premier League loss to Crystal Palace with a home win over Galatasaray in the Champions League, but they instead suffered another home defeat. The Red Devils are now four points behind Galatasaray in fourth place and with an inferior head-to-head record against the Turkish team, still needing to face them away from home.

Problems are mounting for Ten Hag, but as he attempts to solve them, we have rounded up all the latest news and transfer rumours surrounding Old Trafford.

Guerra warning

Man Utd have been told to not waste their time approaching Valencia midfielder and reported target Javi Guerra in January.

“We are fully aware that we have a player with enormous potential for the future and the ability to perform at a good level now,” Valencia sporting director Miguel Angel Corona told the Daily Mail.

“That is why the club have decisively moved him up to the first team in recent months. It is not in our plans to sell him to any club.”

Neville on Ten Hag

Gary Neville has issued his verdict on Ten Hag’s struggles at United.

“Scruffy, very scruffy,” he told TalkSPORT when asked about the situation after the Galatasaray defeat.

“Up and down, inconsistent, injuries and lots of things going wrong on the pitch, lots of things going wrong off the pitch. I feel very sorry for the manager, I know a lot of people will say he’s got to do a lot better, and that’s fine, he’s the Manchester United manager, but there are a lot of big problems at the club that managers have found over the last ten years.

“I think until those problems are solved we’ll still continue to see underperforming teams, underperforming players. It’s become a graveyard for coaches and players, I said that a few years ago – it’s not too strong a term. There are very few players that excel at Manchester United in these last ten years. They were all great players when they came to the club, they were all wanted by other clubs a lot of them.

“They won these players off other clubs and then they end up coming to Manchester United and they end up not succeeding and not performing to their levels, why is that? It’s because it’s not culturally correct to accept players in the way that it should do and we need to get that right.”