Gary Neville has slammed Manchester United’s failure to sign any new defenders last summer and says the back-four that finished the remarkable 4-4 draw with Aston Villa will ‘get the club relegated’.
The Premier League giants go into the November international break sitting 18th in the table after Villa twice blew two-goal leads to draw at Old Trafford.
United found themselves 2-0 down inside five minutes as Alysson and Nicolas Jackson took advantage of the hosts’ fragile defence.
Michael Carrick’s side were level at half-time thanks to Bruno Fernandes’ penalty and Youri Tielemans’ 44th-minute strike against the club he left last summer
Josh McGinn restored Aston Villa’s lead with a penalty straight after the interval and the visitors looked on course for a big win when Leon Goretzka scored a fourth.
But Manchester United scored twice in injury-time – substitutes Joshua Zirkzee and Patrick Dorgu with the goals – to salvage a point and avoid sitting joint-bottom during the international break.
Despite two comebacks, United’s current position is their lowest at this stage of a season since 1986, while their eight-game winless league run has only happened once before.
Manchester United finished the Aston Villa thriller with a back-four of Noussair Mazraoui, Leny Yoro, Ayden Heaven and Patrick Dorgu, and Neville said that line-up would struggle to avoid relegation to the Championship.
‘The reason Manchester United have conceded four goals is because they haven’t invested in the defence in the transfer window,’ he said on NBC Sports.
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‘Every one knew they had to do that, they needed defenders. The current ones are making mistake after mistake after mistake.
‘The defenders that finished that game will get you relegated. Watch the defensive errors… we all screamed in the transfer window that they have to bring some defenders in.
‘They had to bring the transfer budget forward and bring defenders in.’
Gary’s brother Phil, another former Manchester United player, added: ‘The back-four that finished the game – Mazraoui, Yoro, Heaven and Dorgu – that gets you relegated.
‘That back-four gets you the sack as a manager and that back-four cannot keep United, I don’t think, in the Premier League.
‘That back-four gets you relegated, it’s poor. It’s not good enough to play in the Premier League.’
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