Manchester United suffered another shocking result: they lost 1-0 to Wolves at Old Trafford on Monday evening. Despite a new manager and coaching staff being in place, the result and performance didn't feel any different from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's final few months in charge.
One area in which Solskjaer was criticised was his hesitation in taking certain players off, regardless of how poorly they may be playing. United fans hoped this would have stopped when Ralf Rangnick took over, but it doesn't seem that way.
After a disappointing performance, Cristiano Ronaldo was left on the pitch until the end of the game, which in turn saw Mason Greenwood, arguably United's brightest player, taken off. This raised questions on whether or not this idea of players being entitled is still apparent at Old Trafford.
In MEN's latest Facebook Live, the United on my Mind duo Casey Evans and Anil Kandola discussed the fallout from the 1-0 loss on Monday, including the situation surrounding Ronaldo.
CE: "That embodied the dark side of what we should've expected with Cristiano Ronaldo (his performance against Wolves). He's definitely a player who seemingly wants the ball. He was coming deep to get the ball, but the question always has to be asked of Ronaldo is when he doesn't score, what does he offer?
"His link-up play is not good, he doesn't know how to control the ball out of the box, and he seems to give it away constantly. He doesn't seem to know when to give and go. He doesn't seem to press that well, it's improved under Rangnick, but you have to ask what he offers when he's not scoring goals?
"There was a point made by someone saying Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in every game United have won, but that itself is a narrow-viewed comment because yes, he scored in all the games we won, but we've also lost all these games that he's played 90 minutes in.
"He's playing in all these games we've lost, hasn't scored, and it's a case of there needs to be absolutely nobody in the team that is a guaranteed starter, even Ronaldo."
AK: "There needs to be a time and an appropriate way of bringing Ronaldo off. Although he's one of the greatest of all time, he's going to have an off day.
He's a human being who isn't in his prime anymore, so there needs to be times where you can take him off without it making such a big headline.
"If he's failing to have an impact and he's taken off, there doesn't need to be a big deal made out of this. It's a double-edged sword.
If you play him and he doesn't play well, then you've wasted a position on the pitch, but if you substitute him, you know what the media headlines will be the following morning: 'Ronaldo subbed off, what does this mean for his future' and so on."
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