Man Utd legend Nemanja Vidic slams club’s recruitment and questions the ‘character and resilience’ of players

MANCHESTER UNITED fable Nemanja Vidic criticised the club's players and recruitment with a brutal assessment.

Vidic, 43, won 5 Premier League titles, the 2008 Champions League and 3 League Cups during his eight-year stint astatine Old Trafford wherever helium amassed a staggering 300 appearances.

The centre-back continues to ticker his beloved nine and didn't clasp backmost connected United's worst ever commencement to a Premier League season.

The ex-Serbia planetary questioned the players' "character and resilience" and adjacent dismissed claims that they are nether excessively overmuch pressure.

In fact, the erstwhile defender insists the Red Devils' flops could bash with immoderate existent unit truthful that they tin yet recognize the existent demands of the nine they are playing for.

Vidic told Sky Sports: "Honestly, I don't deliberation it's [the] unit [of] playing for Man Utd. The mode Man Utd fans enactment the nine and the players...

"They don't person unit astatine all. Because they're inactive down the players and the coaches. I deliberation they request pressure. I deliberation those players, they decidedly request pressure. We are each expecting much from them.

"Even present we person immoderate fantastic players. I deliberation my question is much astir the characters, resilience, [being] acceptable to compete, to springiness other and vie week successful week out.

"I retrieve erstwhile I was playing for Man Utd: Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Jonny Evans - [I was thinking] they were coming to instrumentality my place.

"I was frightened I was going to suffer my place. And that's normal. If I'm not performing well, they volition bring successful a caller guy. No 1 had to archer maine that."

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Man Utd person splashed good implicit £1billion since Sir Alex Ferguson's status successful 2013 and bought hefty flops, specified arsenic Angel Di Maria, Alexis Sanchez and Antony.

Vidic insists the team's recruitment needs to alteration and absorption connected the close characters alternatively than the biggest names.

The Serbian added: "So a occupation needs to beryllium done successful the adjacent fewer transportation windows. Not conscionable players they are going to bring in, I deliberation immoderate players decidedly person to effort and find caller teams.

"Sometimes you don't request the champion subordinate successful the satellite to play for your club, but you request the close character.

"If you privation to play for the large clubs, competing for the trophies, you person to beryllium consistent.

"And that's not conscionable down to quality, it's down to mentality. That's the cardinal for me."