Here Is Manchester United’s Problem – Rio Ferdinand

Rio Ferdinand revealed the Red Devils biggest obstacle as they boast of the sixth worst backline in the English topflight this season, and the club legend feels it’s a reason for the team’s decline.

“At the moment, the biggest problem in the team is in it’s defence because you don’t know who is going to play,” Ferdinand told media during his recent visit to Nigeria with Guinness.

 

“For all the best teams in the world, before their team sheet comes out you could name like nine or ten players who would start easily.

 

“During my era, the fans already knew that [Nemanja] Vidic and I were going to be in the central defence. This was applicable in other departments of the team, we knew ourselves and this created a bond among the players as we gave the desired results.

 

“When you play together all the time, it’s like a marriage and when you are together all the time, it becomes second nature and you create a solid relationship. That is a relationship I don’t see in Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United and that is the biggest problem.”

He continued: “Also, the best teams have players who sacrifice their games for the team, it’s not about ‘I’ but ‘We’  and that is a big difference.

 

“Rooney could have scored more goals but he sacrificed part of the games for the team to win trophies not to win individual awards or to score more goals.

 

“I won’t compare my era with the present team but it is completely different. People feel I criticise Manchester United but the fact is that I am a United fan and I want them to win.

“As a pundit I have to say what I see, if I see rubbish, I will say its rubbish, if I see good , I will say it’s good and that is how it’s supposed to be because I wouldn’t be true to myself and to the audience

 

“The solution is for Mourinho to change how his team is playing and change the result of the team and we will say positive things.”