{"id":9312,"date":"2022-02-12T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/12\/hes-a-director-man-united-legend-questions-rangnicks-credentials-after-southampton-stalemate\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T23:01:21","slug":"hes-a-director-man-united-legend-questions-rangnicks-credentials-after-southampton-stalemate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/12\/hes-a-director-man-united-legend-questions-rangnicks-credentials-after-southampton-stalemate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s a director\u2019: Man United legend questions Rangnick\u2019s credentials after Southampton stalemate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes was not shy in taking aim at the club\u2019s interim boss, on the back of another disappointing result on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Ralf Rangnick of course guided his troops back into action earlier today, eyeing a bounce-back result against Southampton after slipping to a disappointing 1-1 stalemate with Burnley in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done at Old Trafford, however, the Red Devils, once more, were forced to settle for a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Jadon Sancho\u2019s first-half opener was cancelled out shortly after the interval by Che Adams, dealing another blow to Manchester United\u2019s hopes of clinching a top-4 berth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ch\u00e9 Adams levels it up for the Saints! ?<\/p>\n<p>Southampton have had some great chances in this game, and they finally score \u26bd\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>A well-taken finish from the forward ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U1BLs77Vg0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/U1BLs77Vg0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btsportfootball\/status\/1492494309790208000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And, as alluded to above, one individual who evidently feels as though much of the blame for the club\u2019s struggles must be attributed to boss Rangnick is Paul Scholes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BT Sport on the back of the full-time whistle in Manchester on Saturday, club legend Scholes called into question the lack of long-term planning at Old Trafford, before suggesting that his ex-club\u2019s current boss belongs in the boardroom, rather than the dugout:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sacking of Ole was coming, we all knew that but we all felt that, where was the plan?\u201d, Scholes questioned. \u201dThere has to be a plan, there has to be an elite, top coach into the football club to revive the football club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0Manchester United,\u00a0they should have the best of everything and to not have a plan and bring what is a sporting director, he\u2019s coached a team two years out of the last 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, I like the man, he comes across well, but he\u2019s looked like he\u2019s lacked coaching in the last five or six years. They\u2019re a team of individuals, you look at the difference today in Man United to Southampton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1614480\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1614480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1614480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1357291282.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018He\u2019s a director\u2019: Man United legend questions Rangnick\u2019s credentials after Southampton stalemate\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1357291282.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1357291282-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1357291282-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1357291282-910x593.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1614480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MANCHESTER, ENGLAND \u2013 DECEMBER 05: Ralf Rangnick, manager of Manchester United looks on during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Old Trafford on December 05, 2021 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Alex Livesey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSouthampton were brilliant, the coaching, methods, passages of play, it was fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look at Manchester United and they were all over the place. McTominay was left on his own in midfield,\u00a0Pogba\u00a0left on his own in midfield, where\u00a0Bruno Fernandes\u00a0is playing, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s playing all over the pitch, the wide players don\u2019t work hard enough, it isn\u2019t always about being in possession, sometimes you\u2019ve got to do stuff that is ugly that gives you a bit of pain. So often this team jog back and it\u2019s so easy to play against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne team have got a proper coach, the other team has a sporting director which isn\u2019t right for Manchester United.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paul Scholes says Ralf Rangnick is \u2018not a coach\u2019 after Manchester United throw away another lead | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamWallaceTel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SamWallaceTel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L0MhQK1ODI\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/L0MhQK1ODI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeleFootball\/status\/1492566800890056708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Top-4 slipping away<\/h2>\n<p>United\u2019s latest point secured on Saturday actually saw the Red Devils climb a place in the Premier League table, leapfrogging Arsenal into 5th.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners, however, boast not one, but two games in hand on Ralf Rangnick and co. at present.<\/p>\n<p>This means that, should both Arsenal and north London rivals Tottenham secure 3-point hauls in their respective games in hand, Manchester United are primed to slip as low as 7th in the English top-flight, amid a season that is, on the whole, quickly spiralling out of control.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/still-shot-of-man-uniteds-embarrassing-attempts-to-beat-offside-trap-goes-viral-after-southampton\/\">Still shot of Man United\u2019s embarrassing attempts to beat offside trap goes viral after Southampton<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/manchester-uniteds-summer-squad-issues-hand-incoming-manager-blessing-and-a-curse\/\">Manchester United\u2019s summer squad issues hand incoming manager blessing and a curse<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes was not shy in taking aim at the club\u2019s interim boss, on the back of another disappointing result on Saturday afternoon. Ralf Rangnick of course guided his troops back into action earlier today, eyeing a bounce-back result against Southampton after slipping to a disappointing 1-1 stalemate with Burnley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}