Gary Neville believes Ed Woodward should lose his job for his continued transfer failings at Manchester United.
Despite having spent roughly £850million on players since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, United have failed to ever mount a serious title challenge and currently find themselves fifth in the Premier League.
United have only finished in the top four twice since 2013 and face the prospect of another season without Champions League football unless form improves under the guidance of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Their fortunes are a stark contrast to the current success at fierce rivals Liverpool and Neville believes executive vice-chairman Woodward is ultimately the one to play for the club's failed transfer dealings.
“I can’t change the ownership of United, no one can. I’m struggling to understand why the ownership have persisted in trusting that management team to oversee the building of a Premier League title winning team since Sir Alex left,” he told the Gary Neville Podcast .
“I saw a statistic two weeks ago that United have the second-highest wage bill in the world. And that’s the squad they’ve got. It’s unforgivable. It really is.
“I can’t believe the investment that’s been put into the squad in the last five, six, seven years and you end up with that out on the pitch.
“If you don’t lose your job for essentially overseeing that investment, that wage bill, and putting that team out on the pitch then I have to say something is really wrong.
“There’s real talent in that executive team ... but in terms of what the club needed to do for a number of years now is put the best in class football operators into that club, and they’re not doing it. They’re not doing it and it’s a mess.”
