"You'd be worried for the manager" | Super Sunday discuss Erik ten Hag & Man Utd

right do you see progress being made here um no listen you'd be worried for the manager I would never stand here and say I expect a manag just to lose his job but the pressure no doubt from last year we obviously remember the FA Cup and they got out of jail in a few Cup in a few the cup games but the pressure must be building whatever I think when you're playing for the big teams and obviously man united is one of the biggest I i' I'd hate this tag if I was playing that you're a cup team and this is what this team and that means in terms of League you can turn up week and week out I'm not talking about challenging Man City or even Arsenal but I'm talking about competing with Liverpool uh Chelsea obviously teams like Aston Villa who are at the moment spars are in that mix and at this moment in time you you look at Man United and they're slightly behind him that's the worry for me not not what man city and Arsenal doing because I do think it they need more time do you just want to see progress is that what you're looking for is it better performances is it a consistency performances is a St when first in you always felt and I know when day up pretty quickly and cl was getting to go there was this element of he had people behind him the field good Factor was coming back but when you keep getting beaten like they did last year at home you finishing eight and you get beaten well today under the back of a defeat against Brighton you soon lose that you know as I mentioned earlier when the Stadium's getting empty after 60 Minutes or the game is over that will just be that will build massive pressure for the manager of course it will it's only natural but of course I wanted to turn things around but the longer it takes and the more you come to matches here and you're getting beaten comfortably by one of your biggest Rivals of course the pressure is going to build Daniel what's your take you don't have to be an ex-manchester United player to have a view on what's going on here no I I think from a from a for formation perspective they've gone about this in a way to try and get results in my opinion the the manager you know missing players that he would probably prefer to have his starting lineup so give him a bit of leeway there but I think in terms of how we set the team up today I watched them last week play against Fulham I think it was Fulham last week the game last week the Las Brighton sorry and I was like they're way too open they're playing like a 424 so for me before the game I was thinking surely they're not going to play against Liverpool the same way so I was disappointed with the way in which the team was set up because I was surprised by it to be honest they were way too open so it was inevitable that the result was going to be a win for Liverpool based on how man united were playing in my opinion there's been lots of changes regarding l upstairs or whatever but supporters want to see stuff on the pitch lots of changes it's the same problems but we've seen new signings out there today in in dela and xery as well at the end of a long list well lugat is at the end of that long list and we haven't seen him yet but in the ter Eric tenh era 616 million pound so far I want to ask Daniel specifically on on theck and zery do you think these are two players that can take this football club forward I'll be totally trans arent I'm not quite sure I think they players who are good players do I think they're unbelievable top top players I'm not I'm not sure about that but look they're coming into a team where the managers identifi these players to be guys who he believes can help the team move forward so at the end of the day xery for me played well at bologna he's got ability delict you know he's been at many top clubs and he's coming to Manchester United to try and change what's going on right now but is he at Peak form is he at the best he's ever been I'm not sure the biggest problem they've got at the moment that Manchester United is not a destination right now for the top players in Europe anyway just isn't over the last 10 years it has been a graveyard for players just generally that have come to the club with big reputations and they've not done well whether it's homegrown players whether it's National players from Great Britain or whether it's players from International soil one thing that Roy just said there is that when I I came back from Valencia I think in the April I came to a game it was one of Louis vard's last games and I saw the stadium was sort of half empty during a match I think they playing Crystal Palace on like a Tuesday night and I thought that is that is a signal so today they're being 20 25,000 in with 5 minutes to go is a real problem for Eric tag that can't continue and I think he'll get a few months to be able to get used to these new players coming in hland coming back agat coming in and I think they'll assess it at that time he can't be in eighth at the end of November and going into December he's got to be up there in that top four or five he has to be so was sixth okay I'm I'm deadly serious you tell me for you no you say Manchester United the biggest club in the world would Real Madrid or Bayern Munich except being sixth in their league we're saying eighth that's where we are with man united right now that if he's in eth in a couple of months he'll be okay you look at this team as well you ask yourself can you hang your hack are they say are they really hard to be are they brilliant in terms of keeping clean sheets you go no they're very open are they brilliant going forward scoring loads of goals you go no they gold record last year was probably one of the poorest in the top half so you're looking to try and hang your hat on something and you come to all traff you come watch your matches and you're still kind of scratching your head I'm hanging my hat on ugat I believe he's a really good signing and I think you've seen the stats how he plays in Europe he's one of the best defensive midfielders it's what they need right now so the reality of it is if you're talking about breaking down play transition all these teams doing all these things they are very open his job and what he's great at is helping defensiv I have no problem Sor with these players were were mentioned there there's and there's lots to go through in the lads again mentioned today there's no doubt these are good players but I think they're coming from different leagues and a lot of obviously from uh the Dutch League that he's worked with before but the challenges physically mentally in the Premier League I think that's the big challenges no doubt these are good players and they go and play for big clubs in other leagues but the challenge is the Premiership that physical being at it week and week out and a lot of these players because they're now A Cup team don't seem to do week and week on the sign of a really top player and a top team is they turn up every week and even on a bad day they they're grinding out result this team doesn't do it when when you're talking about where this team's going let's go back to the beginning the first player he wanted to sign was Frankie D young as a hold mid field player we know what type of player he is Liverpool tried to do exactly the same and didn't get there man zuba mendi Liverpool then didn't go and buy a completely different player in casemiro to fill that role they've gone with what they've got and obviously we've seen the K situation with casemiro today unfortunately for the lad but that how has that happened where he's in a situation where he's now actually got five players I think he had at ax how are we not seeing his thing the club of Al them to spend hundreds of millions of pounds by players from the Dutch league players he's worked with before and we still don't see anything really about where this club's going or a style of p and it's not even just about man united need to win and you know man united should always be competitive but surely a manager now after this long we should see what his team's about we see it with Posta cogo as soon as he comes in now that doesn't mean they're going to be successful they're doing okay spares we don't know what slot but we still asking qu the same questions of this manager and and to Gary's point he is surely going to get time given the he's been allowed to make more signings of players that he has worked with before and this is with the new hierarchy so he says judges at the end of the season we will win trophies so uh I'm thinking back a couple of weeks the Monday night football predictions Gary do you think that that Manchester United will finish above Liverpool this season yeah why not I might as well I might as well go down fighting and Swinging I'm United have sat on this look Liverpool and City have been outstanding if jgen klopp was the manager in the last seven or eight years Liverpool have challenges during this season Liverpool are better team than Manchester United at this moment in time of course they are but I'm going to back my team of course I'm going to back my team why not Roy I'm going to stick with United I have you're just saying it just to say it now look at you're just saying it just to say it bro relax just relax I still think you know who we're getting a top four hey we're only three games in aren't we so exactly he wants him sacked and he said himself we are only I I want to stay [Music] [Music] [Applause]