Manchester United have not won a Premier League title since 2013. These are facts. Then there is a dispute about why one of the world’s biggest clubs has not been able to continue its success over the past ten years. Nemanja Vidic points the finger at former United management to find the biggest underlying problem at Old Trafford (along with Ferguson’s disappearance).
Vidic wore the United shirt for 300 games, where the tough centre-back helped lift 15 trophies, 5 of them in the Premier League.
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-I think that sometimes, with the salaries and money we have paid to certain players, we have been deceived. That’s the problem for me,” Vidic begins on The Overlap
-Recruitment is the most important thing, to bring in good football players, coaches, medical personnel, and I think they should be careful about what kind of people they bring in to certain places. To be at Manchester United, you have to be one of the best in the market, and you have to invest in that – maybe even more than in the players, and I don’t think we’ve done that well.”
“My feeling is that Sir Alex Ferguson left, but so did David Gill – there are two big personalities who have been at the club for 25 years. They’re hard to replace, and for Ed Woodward to take that position (to Gill), I think, was beyond his competence and ability – that’s my opinion. He obviously did fantastic for the club in terms of marketing and bringing in money, but dealing with agents and players, that role needs someone with experience,” Vidic adds.
Would have preferred that the club had given more responsibility to ex-players.
“Even having some ex-footballers around to understand how the players think and how the agent thinks [would have helped]. At the time, the club didn’t help itself when it came to not bringing in the knowledge of ex-players like you [Gary Neville], Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs – someone who has experience talking to agents,” Vidic concludes.
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Who is unlikely to be particularly impressed with the job Ratcliffe and the new Manchester United management have done so far in this and the last two transfer windows.
