David Moyes accuses Manchester United players of HIDING after Bruno Fernandes apology

Former Manchester United manager David Moyes has taken purpose astatine the players whose show led to the sacking of Erik 10 Hag, with Ruben Amorim taking implicit astatine Old Trafford connected Monday

Manchester United players person been accused of HIDING by erstwhile brag David Moyes.

Erik 10 Hag spot the bullet for the club’s dire commencement to the season, with Sporting Lisbon brag Ruben Amorim present taking implicit astatine Old Trafford adjacent week. The Portuguese manager arrives with the 20-time English champions 13th successful the Premier League table.

Club skipper Bruno Fernandes admitted aft Sunday’s 1-1 location gully with Chelsea that helium had apologised to Ten Hag for his idiosyncratic relation successful the Dutchman’s dismissal - an admittance described by erstwhile United skipper Roy Keane arsenic “too little, excessively late”.

Now ex-Red Devils brag Moyes, handpicked by Sir Alex Ferguson arsenic his successor successful 2013 but sacked conscionable 9 months later, agreed with Sky Sports pundit Keane. And helium insists the nine into which Amorim volition present locomotion is thing similar the 1 helium entered 11 years ago.

“I’ve got to say, he’s successful a wholly antithetic situation,” helium declared, speaking connected the Stick to Football podcast. “I was truly fortunate to instrumentality implicit the champions of England astatine the time, and besides astir apt coming into a dressing country which had large respect for Alex and what he’d done and each those things.

“I deliberation astatine the moment, players mightiness beryllium looking present and saying, ‘Hey by the way, if we don’t measurement up…’. The manager mightiness beryllium coming from a stronger presumption due to the fact that these players are going to person to really measurement up.

“It’s not ever calling the players out, but I spot it a small spot wherever I deliberation the players are rather blessed to fell down managers astatine the moment, fto the managers instrumentality the hit.

“I could bash with immoderate of them coming retired and saying, ‘By the way, I cognize I’m not rather astatine it astatine the moment, I’m not playing good capable conscionable now’.

“We’re not getting overmuch of that – and I really deliberation Manchester United person got really, truly talented players.”

Amorim’s accomplishment was announced connected November 1 aft his translation of Sporting successful Portugal successful caller years. The large question is whether his 3-4-3 enactment - which destroyed Manchester City successful the Champions League this week - volition travel him to Manchester, oregon whether helium volition effort to accommodate to suit United’s players.

Asked astir the difficulties of implementing a caller strategy part-way done a season, Moyes said: “It mightiness instrumentality a portion for him to get it the mode helium wants it, but I deliberation Man United volition beryllium good – if helium goes that way.

“Maybe he’ll travel successful and say, ‘Hey no, I’m going to person a look astatine this for a fewer weeks earlier I bash anything’.”

Moyes besides insisted helium believes the nine has mislaid “a spot of class” since the days of Ferguson - who during pugnacious times would beryllium backed, alternatively than sacked.

“They didn’t sack managers. When Alex wasn’t doing truthful well, they didn’t bash it. They stood for thing which was truly admirable, they stood for thing which you say, ‘By the way, this nine means a spot more. Yeah, it wants to win, but…’.

“A spot of people – and really that astir apt dropped away, probably, astatine that time.”

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