‘Who sanctioned that’ fumes Arsenal legend as he rips into Man Utd’s ‘bag of Revels’ transfer failures and £80m flop

PAUL MERSON has launched a scathing onslaught connected Manchester United's transportation concern nether Erik 10 Hag.

The Arsenal fable was flabbergasted with United's pursuit of Antony aft ripping into the Brazilian's £85.5m move.

Erik 10 Hag's aboriginal is successful the equilibrium aft United recorded their worst ever commencement to a Premier League season.

United beryllium 14th aft picking up 8 points from 7 Prem games and person scored ONE extremity astatine Old Trafford - connected the opening time 1-0 triumph implicit Fulham.

The Dutchman's aboriginal was discussed by club executives connected Tuesday but determination has been nary connection connected the outcomes of that adjacent seven-hour meeting.

Despite a £180m summertime outlay connected Matthijs de Ligt, Leny Yoro, Noussair Mazraoui, Manuel Ugarte and Joshua Zirkzee, Merson took purpose astatine the transfer strategy.

Sky Sports presenter Rob Jones asked Merson: "If United person been a container of Revels for 2 years now, that's surely grounds that Ten Hag is not the antheral to instrumentality them forward?"

This sparked a classical Merson rant: "Man Utd person to beryllium patient. And the lone mode to beryllium diligent is having a plan. And the program is going to instrumentality time.

"I mean Man Utd person to commencement walking again earlier they tin commencement moving and they decidedly can't commencement sprinting yet. And this is what everybody thinks.

"The 1 happening that would interest maine much than thing is who has travel into that nine and you've gone 'wow helium was a large success'.

"I mean Antony was £80m, person you picked up yet? Or person you fallen over?

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"I thought you'd autumn implicit erstwhile I said £80m. I mean that conscionable sums it each up.

"I'm looking astatine the players they've bought similar the lad Rasmus Hojlund. I similar Hojlund, the centre-forward, but he's a young kid.

"You can't enactment a young kid into Man Utd up beforehand successful a struggling squad and accidental 'go connected mate spell and get maine 20 goals a season'.

"You can't bash it. For maine it's truthful wrong. And that's maine sitting connected the outside. I conscionable don't cognize what they've done."

"I mean £80m - who sanctioned that.

"And I don't privation to beryllium horrible, I watched him successful Holland, helium goes down the wing, helium cuts successful and bends it into the acold corner. He done it each week successful Holland.

"You travel to the Premier League and each azygous full-back is an international. And they enactment you retired and won't amusement you connected that foot."

"United can't adjacent accidental 'do you what we volition swallow 1 present and get £40m for him - they won't adjacent get that."

In the midst of his passionate display, Merson besides claimed that United fable Gary Neville would beryllium cleanable to bring successful to oversee recruitment.

He added: "Gary has been astatine that nine each his career, and helium knows shot from the wrong out.

"You enactment idiosyncratic similar him successful charge, adjacent Rio Ferdinand, idiosyncratic similar that oregon adjacent some of them together, and you spell ‘right, we privation to physique this club- what players should we beryllium bringing in?’"

The Red Devils admitted that they overpaid for Antony, 24, who joined from Ajax successful 2022.