Garry Neville says Manchester United is stuck given their fluctuating performances in the season.
The former right-back at Old Trafford adds that the poor performance might be due to low confidence and belief.
“The problem they’ve got now is it feels like they are stuck, in the sense they are getting through games, scraping through, the football is suffering at the moment and the atmosphere in the ground is suffering. I don’t think it’s a lack of effort or application, it’s just this moment in time their confidence, belief and maturity is not there. They are just crawling at the moment from game to game, you don’t get that since they can’t wait for the next match,” Neville said in the latest Super 6 Class of 92 diary.
On talks to extend David De Gea’s contract by one year, Neville feels that it has reached a level where his former side has to pay more to keep their best players. To him, the problem with player contracts at United is due to a weakened position the club has found itself in recently.
“At the moment, it is a positive thing for the club. All I would say is that Manchester United feels like a football club which is having to overpay to keep players because they are not in a position of strength, they are running their contracts down basically. It’s happened since Sir Alex Ferguson left – with Wayne Rooney, Adnan Januzaj, David de Gea before, Anthony Martial.
“Players are being allowed to run them down because the club isn’t in a position of strength, then they are having to overpay. Other clubs are having to pay, don’t get me wrong, but are basically in a strong position where they say: “No problem, we’ll sell you and get another player for this team, they are queuing up to play” and that’s the problem Manchester United have at this moment in time.” he explained.
