Manchester United great Patrice Evra insists "something is wrong" regarding Raphael Varane.
Something is wrong. Luke Shaw, no matter if he plays good or bad, I don't want to see him at centre-back.
He's a left-back. when you play for a club like Manchester United and have defenders like Lindelof, Maguire, Varane, and you still have to use Luke Shaw at centre-back, there's something wrong.
I played centre-back in some games for United but because of an emergency. I played centre-back for Juventus because I was old. Luke Shaw is still young, the movements are completely different so you can get injured really easily.
I’m really happy that Luke Shaw is back in his real position, we'll get more balance. I don't take away any credit when he plays centre-back because he was fantastic against Newcastle.
But you have a four-time Champions League winner and he's not in the team.
Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino admitted Manchester United were "better" and "deserved the three points".
We miss players, we played nearly with the same players we faced Brighton with, and we were a man down for 60 minutes.
Manchester United had a day more to prepare, and we had many young players on our bench.
It's not an excuse, but that's the reality. I'm not disappointed because we gave everything, but we didn't match the energy or aggressiveness. We created chances, maybe enough to draw the game.
Overall, my feeling is they were better than us and deserved the three points.
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag claims the last few days haven't felt "like a crisis".
It hasn't felt like a crisis for us. We've kept calm, worked on the process and we know where we have to build and what we have to build on.
We're going in the right direction, we don't get distracted from criticism around us, we are very critical on ourselves and know we are not quickly satisfied, we want to do better.
If we do things badly, we want to put that right and want to keep going in the process.
The season is long, we have to improve a lot if we want to be successful, but this team is capable of that.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has vowed to “retire” if he wins the Treble this season again.
If we win the treble this season, I’ll retire. That’s for sure.
I know it is extremely difficult, how many incredible teams have been in England.
And just one with Sir Alex Ferguson has done it and ourselves last season.
When we spoke, prepare well for the first game and how we try to do it and then the second and now the third.
We will see our level and the competition itself dictates your level, the opponent dictates, the challenge is higher but in September, October, November, thinking about the title, forget about it.
It's quite easy to go back to basics. What you do is to embrace the people around you, which are your so-called team-mates.
But what you have to do is to look in the mirror and believe that you are having a bad time, and I think Rashford believes he is playing all right. He believes he is doing enough.
He came off the pitch against Newcastle. He should be disappointed, shake his hands with his manager, who should tell him that he supports him in a bad time. But I don't think Rashford believes that he is having a bad time. I think he really thinks that he doesn't deserve to be subbed off.
A lot of players don't realise that it's a team game. Marcus Rashford can only find his form if he actually looks in the mirror and realises that he is having a bad time.
He believes that he will be at Man United longer than Erik ten Hag. The manager is the players´ commodity. The players have played under a lot of managers, but now they should really decide to stick with him.
The only way it can be done is that the players shut up or they get out. They have to give Erik ten Hag a chance instead of moaning. They are not going to win the battle against Erik ten Hag.
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has found himself under fire amid a turbulent campaign and recent reports suggesting he lost the dressing room, but who could replace him?
Gary Lineker insists Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag should save the criticism for the dressing room.
I think that is the one area that I would criticise Ten Hag a little bit - I don’t think he’s handled situations brilliantly with various players.
He’s had a lot to deal with, but he’s repeatedly been critical openly and publicly and that is the one thing, even when I played, that was unacceptable.
You could take any type of b******ing in the dressing room, but anything a manager does to put you down publicly, is a no no.
Gary Lineker claims Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag’s public criticism of his players is “unacceptable”.
It’s hard to tell with these player power things but it felt like they down tools a little bit at the weekend against Newcastle, that’s for sure. They didn’t exactly put too much effort in.
I mean sometimes that can be confused with a lack of confidence and when you are losing your way on the pitch. But generally it is the manager that suffers under these circumstances.
But talking about player power, certainly in the modern age, managing has changed.
You have to have the players on board, you can’t just go around b******ing players, in fact it was always a no go when you go public with players.
Juventus are set to reject the chance to sign Manchester United outcast Jadon Sancho, who is on the lookout for a new club after his public spat with manager Erik ten Hag.
According to Tuttosport, Juve have decided to back out of a January move for Sancho.
This is supposedly because the winger will cost too much and thus the Bianconeri would rather prioritise a deal for Sassuolo star Domenico Berardi.
But their Serie A opponents do not want to let main man Berardi go midseason.
That is why attention could turn to Shakhtar Donetsk star Georgiy Sudakov instead.
A Saudi Arabian club or a return to the Bundesliga, where he impressed at Borussia Dortmund, could be the England international's most likely destination.
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag insists he has the backing of his players following reports suggesting he lost the dressing room.
You can see for instance the comeback against Brentford, the Burnley game, the Fulham game, every time the team is there and have shown great character, great determination, resilience so we are together.
You can see you can’t play such great football as we did recently without unity. We had a week of two good performances and one bad performance so from there we carry on, the team is in a good direction.
We played very good football and scored very good goals against Galatasaray and Everton.
Against Newcastle, we didn’t play great, we knew that, we were not happy with that performance, but we stayed in the game and had two good opportunities to get a point.
But we are not robots, if you play three games in six days, tough games and by the end the fatigue can be an issue.
