Manchester United coaching staff given scathing assessment by Paul Ince

Paul Ince has delivered a scathing assessment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's training methods at Manchester United and questioned whether his backroom staff are up to the job.

The Norwegian is under huge pressure to turn United's fortunes around after their embarrassing 5-0 defeat to rivals Liverpool last weekend.

Former United midfielder Ince says the Red Devils can't expect the former Cardiff and Molde manager to turn things around with the staff he's got.

He told YouTube channel the United Stand: 'You can't have a manager who takes Cardiff down, then goes to Molde, and expect to come into the biggest club in the world and produce a team that's going to challenge the best teams in the world with the staff that he's got.

'You've got an under-23 coach (Kieran McKenna) come up from the academy. He's got Michael Carrick - no coaching experience. Micky Phelan - I don't know what he does. That's his team.

'This is his coaching staff. So, you analyse that with the world-class players that you've got in the team and we keep mentioning tactics and not getting the best out of the players.

'Look at that staff. This is the staff that Ole says is 'very good, brilliant.' It's a load of b*****ks because they are conceding goals for fun.

'Are they doing defensive work? Do they know where the players need to be when the ball is in a certain position?'

'I'd actually like to go to Carrington and watch a week of what they do in training. I'd love to see it. I don't know whether they are playing five-a-side, a bit of volleyball and all that rubbish, head tennis. I don't know what they are doing but I'd like to go.

'I'd like Ole to invite me in for a week and say: 'Paul this is what we're doing and this is how we do it', because I'm not seeing any stuff on the weekend that says to me that we work at this, work at that.'

Solskjaer's job is safe for now despite their recent poor run of form which has seen them fail to win any of their last four Premier League games.

United's next three games against Tottenham, Atalanta and Manchester City could determine his fate.

Antonio Conte, Brendan Rodgers, Zinedine Zidane and Erik ten Hag are among the names that have been linked with the United job should the club eventually sack the Norwegian.