Dutch legend Marco van Basten has branded Manchester United an arrogant club that can no longer consider themselves as part of the European elite.
The 54-year-old former Ajax and AC Milan striker was shocked to see how far United had fallen when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side were held to a goalless draw by AZ Alkmaar in the Europa League on Thursday night.
He said: “What have United done so far? They beat Astana 1-0! They are 10th in the English Premier League and they are playing a kind of football which you really don't want to write home about.
“If I were them, I would travel around with a lot less acting.
“Man United are a really big club – but I am only talking about lots and lots of money.
“They just look down on games in the Europa League and it is very regrettable.
“If I was at AZ Alkmaar, their opponent, I'd have been very annoyed – and I would have been incredibly motivated to show how annoyed I was.”
“They shouldn't be moaning about an artificial pitch. If you allow them to moan, you are just creating a load of whingers.”
ManUtdRed
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He is right.Ole was quite arrogant for saying we should have got 3 points when we didn't even had a shot on target,he was blaming artificial pitch,Ref and not his s**t tactics and playing style. U can't say we desrved to win,Ole looks clueless to me.He isn't the biggest problem but still is part of problem . When he was asked if it is a mountain to climb after 2-0 loss to PSG he said mountains are there to be climb and we won 3-1. He's completely changed now,he's playing not to loose rather than to win.Probably he was never good enough for job but we still expected him to play youth and good attacking football but he's parking the bus and is playing Lingard,Matic,Mata.I never felt he was going to win us PL but still expected him to atleast finish around top4 and play good football but its even worse than David Moyes
ManUtdRed
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1.We expected him to play attacking football but he's even more defensive than Jose. 2.We felt Jose was quite bitter after match but Ole is even more. 3.We felt LVG's tactics were quite old fashioned but Ole's even older 4.We felt Moyes lowered our expectation but Ole is taking us to relegation battle. 5.We felt we are getting Fergie 2.0 but probably he is not even better than Steve Bruce.If Steve Bruce got better of him today I would want him gone. Don't get me wrong ultimate problem are Woodward and Glazers,but Ole is getting away with everything he is doing wrong bcoz all of the pundits are his mates,Yes we should have got 3 more players but I don't think they would have make much difference with this playing style
DzekoDienQdoh
65
at least they're not in the 6th position which they used to be
nikadeiopy
55
most of u supporting van basten don't tell me you have not experienced any hard time in ur lives ask Liverpool there was a time they are hot and at a time they suffered no trophy midtable season by season even with quality players and some didn't quit they supported them till now they're back what of man city where are them last 8 years they all suffered same nothing last forever and nothing good comes easily when u are the best and suddenly u are down the enemies and haters will mocke & laugh the hell outta u, the only one who knows who you really are will support you let's not follow the haters to mocke our club, we hope for better tomorrow. one love United supporters around the globe, peace
radcdlno
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what annoys me most is the bull*** ole said in the press bemoaning a penalty not given yet we had theirs overturned too saying we should have won oooh God simply how without even a shot on target .this guy has drained our confidence sucked the motivation out of players and acted okey on the press I mean why should be the manager be okey with this nonsense ...He goes too far to protect players he shouldint be he's made us feel comfortable with a point at that team he's forgetting he is in united not Cardiff (sorry Cardiff you better than this) ..am frustrated by all his bemoaning far more defensive player than Jose far more confused than Moyes far more worst tactics than Van gaal .. I admit we are sticking to him blindly so bad
SINGAM23
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these Young squad will rise up in the next 2-3 years.... than, you'll see ManUtd climbs back to the EPL summit