Gary Neville is not impressed with the decisions that have been made in the old club over the last eight years.
On Sunday, Ole Gunnar Solskjær had to step down as manager of Manchester United, as the fourth in a row after Sir Alex Ferguson.
Before the Norwegian, David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho also tried to lead the club to success, without much success.
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Neville: – Something has to change
Former United player Gary Neville is in no doubt. He believes the problem lies with those who run the club and their decisions.
– If you spend over a billion pounds, bring in world-class managers in Mourinho and Van Gaal and then they struggle, then there is something fundamentally wrong in the club that makes them not win, Neville says according to Sky Sports.
– Something must change for the club to get where it needs to be. We can reasonably say that the job Ole has done is to build the bridge to a better future, and that someone will pick it up, run with it and then go on to win the league. But I’m not sure, he continues.
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Neville now suggests that the old club must look to the city rival, who he believes has managed to build a football empire on the basis of good decisions in the management.
– I live in the center of Manchester. When I drive to Manchester City, I do not just see a football stadium. I see a DJ playing outside the stadium, I see an atmosphere that is built up, a supporter experience, a spirit.
– I see a new 25,000-seat music arena being built (on the Etihad campus), it is a world-class academy, world-class facilities, it is a smaller stadium that the academy and the women’s teams use. They have built a football empire here, where everything is connected, and they make good decisions on and off the field, says Neville.
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– Can not happen three times
Only months before Solskjær was fired, he signed a new three-year contract with the club, which by the way created reactions in England. The same thing happened with both Van Gaal and Mourinho.
– Three of the four managers were given long-term contracts or extensions, and then fired within a few months. It can happen once, but not three times, says Neville.
Now Neville believes the old club must take action on several levels.
– They must hire a good manager, they must make this next appointment correctly to build on the work that has been done the last two or three years, where they have been more thoughtful in the transition market and made better decisions. Off the field, however, they must build a vision for the club. A vision creates supporter experiences, it puts Manchester United back to a point where there is a connection, all the way from top to bottom, says Neville.
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– You have to make everyone believe that they are on a journey towards something big and that there is something that binds people together. Not just locally or nationally, but globally.
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