Manchester United are getting smashed in all directions!

Manchester United disappoints. Again and again. This Sunday, on the pitch at Villa Park, the Red Devils were unable to do better than a sad draw (0-0), three days after sharing the points with FC Porto in the Europa League. An evening where Erik ten Hag’s men once again showed their extreme fragility, both defensively and especially mentally. So obviously, a reaction was quickly expected and the shock against Aston Villa was the perfect opportunity to bounce back. Problem, the Mancunian formation, too imprecise around the opposing surface, never found the fault against Unai Emery’s band, surprisingly sufficient on numerous sequences.

A poor game, Ten Hag still in the hot seat

With this draw, Manchester United are in a poor 14th place today and have only 8 points over the first 7 days. A starving assessment placing, a little more, Erik ten Hag towards the exit. In today’s edition, El Nacional indicated, in this respect, that a meeting would soon be held to rule on the case of the Batavian technician. At the same time, management continues to work on its possible successor. If the name of Thomas Tuchel is regularly mentioned, that of Xavi has also just appeared. One thing is certain, the context at Old Trafford is far from peaceful and the various observers are tense.

Former club scorer, Dimitar Berbatov (43 years old) did not hesitate to destroy the current dynamic of the Red Devils. “Everyone on the pitch should be ashamed that Jonathan Evans is man of the match at 36”first declared the Bulgarian at the microphone of Sky Sports before assuring that the pressure around Erik ten Hag would only increase in the weeks to come. “The criticism will continue to grow, because United need to win to get the points. They are 14th in the standings, which is incredible. The only thing to correct is to take points but with the way they are playing at the moment, it will be difficult to do.”.

Scholes destroys the Red Devils transfer window

A pessimism also widely shared by another Mancunian legend, in the person of Paul Scholes. The former English midfielder has been very critical of Manchester United’s strategy in recent years and particularly in the transfer window. “I don’t think the quality is there, especially in attack. If we look at the most successful teams, they are capable of scoring goals. What have we scored? Five goals in seven matchesthus railed Scholes to SuperSport. Unconvinced by the successive arrivals of Joshua Zirkzee, Matthijs de Ligt, Manuel Ugarte, Leny Yoro and Noussair Mazraoui, the 49-year-old then showed his frustration.

“We had three or four strikers capable of scoring 20 goals, that’s 80 goals a season, and I don’t see that in Manchester United’s forward line. Hojlund is doing well, but will he score 20 goals? I don’t think so. Zirkzee… what is it? Is it a number 9 or a number 10? Will he make you score 20 goals? I don’t think so. I think they are relying more on hope than proven qualities and have spent a lot of money. It’s a ridiculous amount of money and some of them can’t make the team! Think about Ugarte who came to the club and was supposed to change the way the midfield was… he didn’t make it play..

An expected reaction after the truce…

And to add: “De Ligt, 50 million pounds, he didn’t play him. Jonny Evans arrived at 36 in his place. Martinez, Ten Hag, brought him to the club. What is he thinking about today? Jonny Evans plays, Maguire started, (Victor) Lindelof comes on before him. It’s really a mess in terms of recruitment. When you don’t have a playing style and you don’t know how to play, or the way you want to play, it’s very difficult to pick players. With Liverpool it was quite easy to buy, you know what you have to do. They play 4-3-3 and you can recruit for that. But when you don’t have a style of play, when you don’t know how you’re going to play, when it changes from week to week, you’re almost throwing balls in the air and saying : he looks like a good player, we will try to get him”.

Exasperated, Paul Scholes, to conclude, tempered his remarks by recognizing the quality of the adversary. “It’s a good point for United, who go to a difficult pitch with a lot of pressure but I never really felt like they went there to try and win the game. It was more of a survival tactic than anything else.. An observation, however, very far from that made by Erik ten Hag, satisfied with the performance of his players… “I think United’s performance was very good. In defense and in possession, we controlled the game. We created chances but we lacked a little success.assured the Dutchman to the BBC. In great danger, ETG will in any case quickly have to find the right arguments to reverse the trend and save its skin. A perilous mission which will begin after the international break against Brentford…