Gary Neville slates Manchester United’s broken transfer policy

Manchester United’s XI to play West Brom highlights serious flaws in the club’s transfer policy, says Gary Neville.

The club legend pointed out that seven of the players picked to start the Premier League match at The Hawthorns were at the club when Sir Alex Ferguson was in charge – including the entirety of the defence.

Since Sir Alex’s departure in 2013 the club have spent huge sums of money on players but the lack of alterations to the team suggest they’ve been a waste of money in the main.

‘If you look at that back five today then they were all there when Sir Alex Ferguson was at the club,’ Neville told Sky Sports.

‘They’ve signed eight defenders in the last four or five years and not one of them is in the team today.

‘You’ve got Valencia, Jones, Smalling, Young and De Gea and you obviously have Lingard and Rashford, who were also at the club as well, so seven out of that 11 were there five years ago.’

Neville continued: ‘The recruitment has not been good enough in the previous five years. It’s been disjointed with David Moyes came in, then they flipped upwards towards Louis Van Gaal and then backwards with Mourinho in terms of the profile of players.

‘It hasn’t been good enough the recruitment, it’s been all over the place and you can see still quite a lot of the players in that squad have been at the club for a long time.’

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