Liverpool legend Graeme Souness has slammed Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag. For buying the players he wanted but failing to replicate their best form.

The Dutchman is still strong in his role after guiding the club to 14th place in the table. And a winless run of five games in all competitions.

The Red Devils splashed out more than £200million last summer in the hopes of keeping Ten Hag in charge. But their form has shown little to no improvement. “

I gave Manchester United this assessment last month and I thought they would improve this season. But five weeks later I could be wrong,” Souness said. “I

watched them at Crystal Palace where they played well and should have won but at Tottenham they were awful. Even before Bruno Fernandes got sent off. “

Spurs look great but are they great because United are so average? “

“It was violent when Fernandes got sent off, he tried to cut someone’s legs off but you can’t break someone’s legs with that. “

But the important thing is a lot of players are better than what they’re showing and it was Eric Because the number one job of any manager must be to make the players perform at their best. “

The club spent a lot in the summer but I don’t trust Manuel Ugarte, Matthijs de Ligt or Noussier Mazrawi. “

Eric cannot say that United didn’t back him. Having bought a lot of Dutch internationals, and players he has worked with before, he has told the http://ufabet999.app club: ‘I know these players, they will do a great job.’

“If someone brings them to him (Ten Hag) and he doesn’t like them, he can say: ‘No, I worked with them before, they are not for me.’

“But he is the one driving the transfers, now his future will depend on making them work.”