Manchester United suffered another setback yesterday as they were beaten 3-1 away to Aston Villa in the Premier League.
The Red Devils have endured a stop-start season under new manager Erik ten Hag, and there were plenty of concerns from the manner of this result at Villa Park.
Going through some of the issues in this Man Utd squad on talkSPORT, journalist Alex Crook gave a harsh but fair assessment of some of the players who featured on the day, laying into Donny van de Beek in particular.
The Netherlands international was signed by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and then barely used, and Crook thinks there are clearly problems with him and Ten Hag as well…
? “I was surprised to see van de Beek. It’s not going to happen for him at Man United. Something isn’t right.”
? “With the greatest respect, Elanga should be on loan at Birmingham…”
Alex Crook wasn’t happy with what he saw from #MUFC today pic.twitter.com/oVF30pLZ4r
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) November 6, 2022
Crook believes it’s clear now that Van de Beek has no future at Old Trafford, while he also criticised the performance of what looks like an increasingly over-the-hill Cristiano Ronaldo, whilst also stating that youngster Anthony Elanga looks like someone who should be on loan at Birmingham City rather than playing regularly for a club like United.
Am so much angry over beek playing he is not strong to play for united,poor in attack,everything about him is poor so it is time for him to depart
I think, Man.United is far from a competitive team. They are neither good in attacking or in defence. To build a solid competitive team like, Arsenal, man.city and Newcastle etc, the manager should make a complete overhaul and build his own team, otherwise, we would soon see Man.United in the relegation zone.
And does Ten Hag magic these players out of thin air?? The squad is weak so he can only use what he’s got the Glazers don’t have enough money to keep up with state owned teams and that’s a fact..if he isnt backed we will fall further behind so Glazers must sell,or get used to united not being in Europe or top 10!,!