Roy Keane has launched a blistering assault on Bruno Fernandes and instructed him he isn’t match for function as Manchester United captain.
Fernandes, 29, was made skipper of United final summer season after Erik ten Hag determined to exchange Harry Maguire. But underneath Fernandes’s management, United have lurched from one catastrophe to a different this season.
Ten Hag’s males have suffered a file variety of defeats at this stage of a marketing campaign (14) and by no means got here near managing a title problem. To make issues worse, the fallen giants completed backside of their Champions League group and crashed out of the League Cup 3-0 at residence to Newcastle.
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Fernandes has divided opinion, resulting from his obsession with pointless histrionics and moaning at officers. Keane, who led United with such distinction and success throughout his time at Old Trafford, believes the behaviour of Fernandes is having a adverse affect on the workforce.
He mentioned: “If you watch him [Fernandes] at international level, he does the same thing [with floating around]. It can’t all be the coaches and managers. There is a player out there, and if he’s doing all that stuff and [still] producing magic, you almost forgive him.
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“But if you’re in a struggling team and you’re doing all that stuff, that’s where it stands out. And you go, ‘You’re killing us, you’re costing us.’ I reckon if you look back at his career, he’s done it in every team.
“It’s a trait. It’s not as if he’s an skilled participant – leopards and spots. He’d get away with it if [Manchester] United had been profitable extra matches and he was producing his bits of magic, which he has performed earlier than.”
United won the League Cup last season in Ten Hag’s first campaign in charge, the club’s first trophy since 2017. But Keane believes United now resemble a side drifting along, clinging to the hope of somehow being able to land another piece of silverware to help paper over the cracks.
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He mentioned: “It looks like they are all hanging in there. Last year, we gave them praise when they won the [Carabao] Cup final, but then they lost in another final [FA Cup], getting properly beat by Manchester City.
“It might nearly be the identical situation this yr. Fifth place is on the market for anyone to get into the Champions League, and so they’ve had a little bit of luck with their FA Cup draw.
“As much as they are struggling, in football you have to hang in there. They look like they are surviving in games, and it will be the same this season. They could win the FA Cup.”
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Keane claimed United haven’t any identification underneath Ten Hag and lack prime qualities in all departments. He added: “Manchester United are missing something. A bit of belief, confidence, chopping and changing while lacking goals. It doesn’t matter what team you’re playing for, you end up in no man’s land.
“They aren’t a urgent workforce, they aren’t good at dominating, they don’t seem to be a brilliantly bodily workforce, they aren’t unbelievable at set items. They don’t actually play as a workforce. When you take a look at Manchester United, we are saying it each week, you don’t know what you’re going to get.”
Roy Keane was speaking on the ‘Stick to Football podcast’, brought to you by Sky Bet