Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince has hit out at Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team of coaching staff, insisting they're failing to get the very best out of the squad.
United are currently experiencing one of their most disappointing runs in recent years and the pressure is seriously mounting on Solskjaer and his team of coaching staff, which is, in the main, made up of Mike Phelan, Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna.
Sunday's 5-0 defeat to Liverpool at Old Trafford has increased the pressure on Solskjaer ten-fold, so much so that United, as reported by the Manchester Evening News, were considering sacking the Norwegian on Monday.
Given that no plan was in place to make a change prior to the Liverpool defeat, United have decided against making a change for now, but Solskjaer does remain under huge pressure.
Although Solskjaer must shoulder some of the blame, Ince has blasted his team of coaching staff, questioning exactly what they're doing on the training ground.
"You can’t have a manager who takes Cardiff down, then goes to Molde, and expect to come into the biggest club in the world and produce a team that’s going to challenge the best teams in the world with the staff that he’s got," Ince told The United Stand.
"You’ve got an under-23s coach [Kieran McKenna] come up from the academy. He’s got Michael Carrick - no coaching experience. Micky Phelan - I don’t know what he does. That’s his team.
"This is his coaching staff. So you analyse that with the world-class players that you’ve got in the team and we keep mentioning tactics and not getting the best out of the players.
"Look at that staff. This is the staff that Ole says is 'very good, brilliant…' it's a load of b******s because they are conceding goals for fun.
"Are they doing defensive work? Do they know where the players need to be when the ball is in a certain position?
"I’d actually like to go to Carrington and watch a week of what they do in training. I’d love to see it. I don’t know whether they are playing five-a-side, a bit of volleyball and all that rubbish, head tennis. I don’t know what they are doing but I’d like to go.
"I’d like Ole to invite me in for a week and say: 'Paul this is what we’re doing and this is how we do it' because I’m not seeing any stuff on the weekend that says to me that we work at this, work at that."
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