After the Spring Festival, there is no winless game, next season's Champions League qualification is not optimistic, and Manchester United's continued malaise is worrying.
Along with the poor record, there is a variety of negative news about Manchester United in various media. It should be pointed out that not only the tabloids such as The Sun, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Mirror are full of fire, but even the BBC and Sky Sports reports are also vaguely pointing to the locker room problem.
British media reports pointed out that many Manchester United players believe that Lonnick's training method is old-fashioned, can not keep up with the times, not suitable for the rhythm of the Premier League, and the players prefer that Paris coach Pochettino will enter the Dream Theatre next season. Some players also nicknamed Ronnick's assistant coach Chris Armas to mock him. For these news leaks, Sky Sports commentator Gary Neville is very angry, he believes that some players deliberately revealed the news to the media, and know who these players are.
Currently, United's regular training is mainly led by assistant coach Chris Armas, who coached MLB Toronto FC before joining the Lonnick coaching team. But United players were less convinced of Armas' resume, calling him Ted Lasso in private. Ted Lasso is a fictional character in the American drama Football Coach, which tells the absurd story of a rugby coach coaching a Premier League team.
Gary Neville blasted the Manchester United players: "I think it's rude and downright disrespectful for them to give the assistant coach a mocking nickname. I didn't find it funny at all, and I thought it was disgusting. ”
In addition, the Daily Telegraph and the Goal Network reported a few days ago that Manchester United players prefer Paris manager Pochettino. United are scrambling to find a full manager, with Pochettino gaining increasing support in the Old Trafford dressing room, while Ronnick, who has transferred to advisers in the summer, has a crush on Ajax manager Tenhag.
Neville said he knew which United players were behind the dressing room and that deliberately leaking information was sabotaging the club.
"These situations [broke the news] never happened in my days of playing football, and we have the most stability in the dressing room."
Neville gave the example of Chelsea's change of coach in 2012: "I remember when I just joined Sky Sports, we did the Champions League live and Chelsea played Napoli away. At the time, Andre Bilas Boas was the Blues manager, and he did not put several famous players such as Lampard, Terry, Essin and Ashley Cole into the starting lineup. ”
"Then the gossip said the Chelsea players asked to be fired and the day after the game I remember having lunch with my colleagues and they got a message saying chelsea news had been leaked and Boas was fired and I sat there thinking 'Is this true?' ”
'The players, agents and PR team revealed to the media what was happening inside the club on the day of the match and it was the first time I've seen and known it all happened and it made me feel very uneasy.
"The same thing is happening at United right now – the PR team, the agents and the marketing team are all protecting their players. But what they don't realize is that when they leak it to the media, the media people will also tell us. I know who did it, and in fact I don't like the behavior, but I know who the leaker is. ”
"I don't like to throw other people under the bus because we have the work ethic of a journalist and United are in the same situation now as Chelsea were years ago. They need to stop this behavior and do their job as well as they can. ”