Carrick’s men are 13th in the Premier League ahead of Sunday’s visit by Bournemouth and could drop into the bottom three if results go against them this weekend. With the club beset by infighting and off to their worst domestic league start for decades, Carrick was left clinging to his job after the 4-1 defeat at Como on Wednesday.
Manchester United great Wayne Rooney has labelled the current squad “babies” and “selfish” after a humiliating Champions League capitulation and post-match criticism by Bruno Fernandes of manager Michael Carrick.
Defender Lisandro Martinez last week criticised the club’s board for not investing enough in the transfer market. A friend and ex-teammate of Carrick, former striker Rooney pointed the finger at the players. “That was the start. You have to take responsibility as a group of players. He added: “These players, they’re selfish. They don’t care about their team-mates, don’t care about the manager, the staff or the fans, they care about themselves.
Because these players, they don’t want to take responsibility, we’ve seen it now with Bruno and you’re going to see it with more players.
Deepening the sense of crisis, the captain Fernandes afterwards took aim at his manager’s tactics, saying United had to be more “brave”. Rooney, United’s all-time leading goalscorer, said he was in “shock” and “disbelief” at the Como display. “When Martinez came out, I said this is an absolute nightmare because it will rip the dressing room apart,” Rooney told The United Stand podcast on Thursday. “You can say whether Bruno was right or wrong in what he said but you have to take responsibility on the pitch. “If they’re not getting what’s right for them, they’re like babies and just throw their toys out of the pram and go and deflect the blame on to anyone else but themselves.” (This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
