Manchester United Players Lack Belief To Win The League – Gary Neville

Manchester United players do not have a champion mentality, Gary Neville has said. He recently revealed that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s current team is visibly an odd bunch that never play well for the full 90 minutes.

According to him, it is very clear that a lack of belief within the team is stopping them from taking the final step to glory.

He added that getting just 2 points in games vs Liverpool, Sheffield United and Arsenal is simply not good enough, and that might cost them this season.

His words, “I think it’s a disappointment over the three games – Liverpool, Sheffield United and Arsenal – the fact that there’s two points out of those three matches,”

“The Liverpool and Arsenal games they were there for the taking and I had this debate, I saw Roy (Keane) and Jamie (Redknapp)’s piece last night, why didn’t you show more belief?”

“They haven’t got it yet. They haven’t got the mentality of a champion team. It’s difficult to have that from being eight weeks ago thinking the manager’s in trouble after the defeat to RB Leipzig and going out of the Champions League, to all of a sudden eight weeks later transferring that mindset to ‘we’re a champion team.”

“They’re not like Liverpool. They haven’t won the title with all those players. They’re not like Manchester City, they haven’t got titles in the bank. They haven’t got that experience to be able to draw upon.”

“I get the bit where you would say ‘okay, you’re there, go for it, take it, it’s a strange season’, but they just haven’t got it. We didn’t think that ten weeks ago, we didn’t think it ten days ago. When we’re seeing them in games not quite going for it it’s disappointing, and I share that disappointment but it’s not surprising.”

“It’s not surprising to any of us because we didn’t think they could do it, so when they don’t do it, let’s not be shocked.”

“It’s just disappointing that they’re not quite there yet, but I accept it that they’re not quite there. I wanted at the start of the season as a Manchester United fan for them to get close to Liverpool and City. If you could say to me in another two to three months they’d be sat between Liverpool and City I’d be absolutely delighted, because that is big progression.”

“They’ve been masses of points off them in the last two or three years, they’ve been nowhere near.”

“When I called them an odd bunch, they’re an odd bunch because they don’t put really good performances together over long periods of matches. They can play for ten minutes and then they go away for 15 minutes and the game drifts along, and then they go one down and they come back.”

“It’s just odd. You see patterns of teams develop but there are very few patterns with Manchester United and maybe that’s because they do rotate more. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer seems to rotate four or five times in midweek and then changes again at the weekend, and maybe that consistency just isn’t quite there.”