Paul Ince slams Man Utd flops for getting Mourinho & Solskjaer sacked and says Rangnick is NOT to blame for horror form
MANCHESTER UNITED legend Paul Ince believes that Ralf Rangnick is NOT to blame for his old side's current woes.
The German, 63, has been heavily criticised with the Reds Devils currently finding wins hard to come by.
Paul Merson has called for Rangnick to be sacked, while reports in Spain have alleged that the boss' relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo is 'totally fractured'.
Ince, however, has a different opinion - instead blaming the players for issues dating back to Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's tenures.
He told the : "When things aren’t going well and results aren’t going well it’s only natural to direct it at the manager, but this is an issue that’s been built up for many years.
"It’s been a bit unfair for Rangnick because he has come into a situation where there are a few issues. It sounds like to me there is some fragmentations in the dressing room and it is showing on the pitch."
Recent leaks have suggested that players are unhappy with training methods used by Rangnick - while likening his American assistant Chris Armas to clueless American sitcom character Ted Lasso.
These reports left Ince unimpressed, however, as he added: "It’s the players, really, that threw Ole under the bus.
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"It’s the players who got Mourinho out, all this c*** about players going to journalists and saying what’s going on in the changing room, what’s going on at the training ground, what’s going on with the assistant coach, you know, it’s probably unfair for someone like Rangnick to deal with in such a short space of time when he needs results.
"The players have to take responsibility. The players are the ones picking up £300,000-a-week, £400,000-a-week.
"They’re the ones looking to go out and do the business, that’s what they’re paid for and at the moment they’re not playing to the highest level."
Quizzed about whether the players wield too much power at his old club, he said: "I do. You’ve got to look at people from above, [Ed] Woodward, the Glazers, you’ve got to look at them.
"They should be leading from the top and they haven’t.
"You don’t know who is doing what [at the club], who is in charge, who is signing the players, who is doing this, who is saying that, there’s no leadership and you can see that filtering through the club.
"You can see it in the players, the players are coming out on TV and saying 'we don’t know what we’re doing' and Ronaldo is coming out and saying 'I try to speak to the players , they don’t want to listen' all this stuff wouldn’t have happened in our time.
"It would have been kept in-house. If there were any issues, we would have dealt with it. Either Sir Alex, Brian Kidd, Archie Knox, whoever it may be, Bryan Robson, the leaders, we would have dealt with it in-house.
"All this rubbish that keeps coming out now is only affecting Manchester United big time."
Ince is also incredibly bewildered by United's decision to hire a temporary boss, adding: "Now we’ve got an interim manager, which is pure madness. Pure madness.
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"How you can… maybe Pochettino wouldn’t come, PSG wouldn’t let him go, but if you haven’t got a Plan B or a Plan C, if you’re going to sack a manager make sure you’ve got someone to come in, because if you haven’t then you might as well keep Ole.
"Nothing has really changed, as a player, when you have got an interim manager it says to us 'well you are not really our manager because at the end of the season you might not be here, so why should I listen to you'."
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