Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has stressed the importance of the club getting their next managerial appointment correct, insisting they must source somebody that can offer "belief" to the players.
28.01.2022 - 09:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Gary Neville has named two Manchester United signings who failed to live up to their promise at Old Trafford.
In a conversation with Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football the former United defender named Diego Forlan and Juan Sebastian Veron as the players who disappointed him at the Theatre of Dreams.
Explaining his choices, Neville said: "There is two I can think of who were brilliant players but it just didn't quite work for them.
"One was Diego Forlan who went on to be an unbelievable striker in Spain but just didn't quite work for him. He did well towards the end, scored a few goals, but you knew he was going to be a prolific goalscorer somewhere with a certain type of football.
"He was athletic, he could finish, he was lively, he wasn't rapid quick but his movement was really good in and around the box but it just never quite clicked like it did in Spain."
The Uruguayan only scored 17 times in 97 appearances for United, a tally that pales in comparison to his scoring record in Spain with Villareal and Atletico Madrid.
"The second is an unbelievable player in Juan Sebastian Veron," Neville continued.
"£28m was unheard of in terms of a player like that — you were bringing in a world class midfield player but the problem was that we already had the best midfield I have ever seen.
"Becks [David Beckham], [Paul] Scholes, [Roy] Keane and [Ryan] Giggs so you are breaking that up and he had to fit into that.
"He came in and he played on the left, played in the centre, played on the right, he played off the front and then Scholesey moved off the front and it didn't quite work.
"We were quite a formulated team, quite methodical in terms of how we played, everyone knew each other's movements and everyone knew
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