Manchester United: Jamie Carragher blasts 'huge money' signing Matthijs de Ligt after Tottenham thrashing

The Dutch centre-back was portion of an abysmal squad show from the hosts successful Sunday’s one-sided Premier League contention astatine Old Trafford, with Spurs moving retired deserved 3-0 winners acknowledgment to goals from Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke.

Such a dismal show and effect continued different worrying commencement to the play for United and saw the unit connected perennially under-fire manager Erik 10 Hag importantly escalate erstwhile much little than 3 months aft helium was handed a declaration extension.

Preciously fewer Red Devils players came retired of the crippled against Tottenham with immoderate credit, with sluggish United dominated for the bulk of the archetypal fractional erstwhile it was 11v11 earlier their task was made each the harder earlier the interruption by the dismissal of skipper Bruno Fernandes for a situation connected James Maddison and Kobbie Mainoo limping disconnected injured.

Other than Alejandro Garnacho hitting the station successful the archetypal fractional and a little spirited rally with 10 men midway done the 2nd half, United were blunt successful onslaught and mostly overwhelmed done the mediate contempt Ange Postecoglou naming conscionable 2 out-and-out midfielders successful his attacking Spurs team.

But it was their defending that appeared to astir interest Carragher, with the Liverpool fable reserving peculiar disapproval for De Ligt arsenic helium dissected the goals United conceded alongside erstwhile Chelsea brag - and rumoured Old Trafford managerial candidate - Graham Potter connected the latest variation of Monday Night Football connected Sky Sports.

Carragher laid a batch of the blasted for Johnson’s extremity wrong conscionable 3 minutes astatine the feet of the £43million summertime signing from Bayern Munich, suggesting that helium should, alternatively than being needlessly pre-occupied by Solanke, person closed the abstraction to effort and forestall chap Dutch defender Micky van de Ven’s unthinkable surging tally from wrong his ain fractional that ended with a cleanable transverse from the byline that was tapped location from adjacent range.

He continued his disapproval of De Ligt’s positioning and a rash attempted situation connected Timo Werner that past led to a Destiny Udogie tally down the left, with Kulusevski feeding Johnson for a debased onslaught that cannoned backmost disconnected the station arsenic Tottenham continued to heap connected the first-half pressure.

The 3rd illustration Carragher gave to item his struggles was Werner’s one-on-one accidental that was thwarted by goalkeeper Andre Onana, with De Ligt’s positioning and slowness to respond seemingly allowing the erstwhile Chelsea guardant a wide way done connected goal.

“In each concern determination successful that archetypal half, 2 monolithic chances and the goal, successful De Ligt, a subordinate they brought successful for immense money, he’s wholly retired of presumption each the clip truthful helium ends up having to spell flying into challenges,” Carragher said.