FOUR Manchester United stars were involved in a furious dressing-room bust-up after Saturday's home defeat to Brighton.
And United legend Gary Neville claims unhappy players could be “BUGS” creating “discomfort and uncertainty” for Erik ten Hag's strugglers.
SunSport can reveal captain Bruno Fernandes confronted fellow midfielder Scott McTominay after United's third defeat in four games.
While centre-back pairing Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof also lost it with each other following a calamitous defensive display.
Manager Ten Hag tried to restore order as the post-mortem began on a shocking 3-1 defeat that sparked boos from disgruntled fans.
The Dutch boss, 53, has banished Jadon Sancho from first-team training.
Ten Hag — already without Mason Greenwood and Antony following troubles off the field — also stripped Harry Maguire of the captaincy and axed him from his first-choice XI.
And in a TikTok video, ex-England full-back Neville said: “How popular is Sancho in the dressing room? How popular is Maguire?
“Ten Hag has got some bugs in there that we don't know from the outside what discomfort and uncertainty is being created on the inside.
“You've got a player who's probably changing in the first-team dressing room but is over with the academy. You've got Harry, who was captain of these players 12 months ago but has now almost been alienated to the third, fourth, fifth centre-half.
“So Ten Hag has some situations in there and I don't know the damage that is having.
“There has been many a manager since Sir Alex Ferguson left, good managers who have found challenges at United.
“I'm hoping it's just a difficult start to the season and not a repeat of what we've seen previously — where it started to become challenging for Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, David Moyes, Ralf Rangnick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer."
United face a Champions League clash at Bayern Munich next after their worst start to a Prem season.
They lie in 13th place with just six points from five games.
Peaceking1234
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United's Problems😭 in One Picture👇💯👌
BayuPermanaPutra
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be careful because these man united players can be as toxic as possible. they willing to lose the game as many as possible until the coach that they hate got sacked. ETH need to be careful. first victim was mourinho, followed by ole etc
AllFootball_User
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nightmare start to season
GlaneChlorous
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After talking too much about other teams😂😂😂😂
olagbendeVictor
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Manchester United new owner 🤣
Jazifizo
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Mctominay doesn’t want to play for United. He’s upset about being sold. But he’s not good enough. Poor displays for United. Lindelof isn’t even average. Rashford and Martial are lazy. Sancho feels entitled. Casemiro and Eriksen are aging and exposed. Antony is a clown. This is where the Academy players should have been slowed to compete for places in the first xi, that would up the overall play and then two or three quality transfers to create a good squad. ETH should not be the final say on transfers…it’s not his forte. Finally, Glazers out! They’re strangling the entire organization.
1893askena
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man u fans on all football should shout glazers out
JoyNg01
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Thomas Muller: Eric Ten Hag, We are coming🙂🤣🤣🤣
duednprsz
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50%united fun and 100% Messi fun was saying CR7 was the problem, now that he left United problem get bigger and deeper
Bouaeiosuy
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CR7 is happy & enjoying football somewhere there
splendidsire
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Burnley have finally found there first point of the season in the Forest.😂
Tibbcdempu
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those who fail to see Eth is creating and unhappy team won't knw dat he is a big problem a team is firstly a family and the coach sits as the head of such family creating love n discipline but he is only creating discipline and as such sits as a tyrant and I don't care father who wants all his children to forcefully do things his own way u DNT win many matches with such unloved environment players gvs dia all wen de love each Oda n de is a sense of togetherness in them eth has failed dey n worst mks bruno captain Bruno has a blaming character instead of an encouraging one eth shud readjust his man management
Lenceiopu
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The problem is Ronaldo, they should bring him back and fire him again