Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke has slammed the membership’s switch document underneath Erik ten Hag.
Yorke is a well-liked determine at Outdated Trafford after scoring 66 targets in 152 video games between 1998 and 2002, successful a bunch of main honours, together with the treble in 1998/99.
However these days look like historic historical past given United’s present struggles, at the moment sitting thirteenth within the Premier League with simply seven factors from six video games after lumbering to an eight-place end final season.
In actuality, Ten Hag has solely saved his job — and earned a shock two-year contract extension — by securing EFL Cup and FA Cup titles. However now, the stress is on with the Crimson Devils struggling some torrid defeats this season, together with 3-0 at residence to each Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.
Dwight Yorke goes on livid rant about Erik ten Hag’s switch document
One of many greatest criticisms levelled at Ten Hag is the poor document of his signings.
Enormous sums have been spent underneath the Dutchman, however the failures of the likes of Antony, Rasmus Hojlund, Casemiro and Sofyan Amrabat have been there for all to say.
Yorke is significantly unimpressed by United’s switch document underneath Ten Hag and believes the membership have successfully given up on being a title-chasing membership.
“£600 million is some huge cash, however we’ve seen the gamers, and I feel we’re simply shopping for the gamers to assist us end fourth. I don’t assume we’re shopping for gamers to win the league,” Yorke mentioned (by way of DAZN).
“You’ve bought to stroll earlier than you’ll be able to run, however United are thus far gone that the gamers they’re bringing in usually are not even starters for his or her nationwide sides.
“We’re not taking part in to win the league, that’s gone out of our head. Investing in that sort of participant, you’re more likely to end fourth. There’s no aspiration on the membership, as a result of I haven’t heard United say in the previous couple of years that they’re aiming to win the league. Should you’re not sending out that message, how would I feel we’re going to win? When the highest 4 is all I hear popping out of the membership, as a participant, that’s what I’m pondering is the goal.
“It’s the place we’re as a membership, and it’s baffling simply how far we’ve fallen, however the gamers are merely nowhere close to pretty much as good as they’re making out.
“We’re behind the tier of the very best normal. We’re not going for the easiest gamers. Once you’re bringing them in, what are you anticipating, to win the league? Since you received’t. Ten Hag solely appears to purchase gamers that solely he is aware of, not purchased anybody stunning.”
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