‘This is an embarrassment’ – Ferdinand fumes at Man Utd

Reported today in Football365.

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand labelled their defeat to Burnley "an embarrassment" and urged those in charge of the club to take action.

Chris Wood and Jay Rodriguez struck to give the Clarets a first win at Old Trafford since 1962 as the injury-hit Red Devils delivered another flat performance.

Ferdinand is concerned about the direction the club is heading and insists the club need to act to arrest their slump.

"I can't defend this. What has been invested?" he said in his role as a pundit for BT Sport.

"These young kids now in schools around the country, they are not going to be wearing Manchester United shirts.

"They are not going to be wanting to come here and support Manchester United based on what you are seeing out there. It's just not going to happen, fans are walking out after 84 minutes!

"It's an embarrassment. People at the top need to look and see this and make changes, put a plan in place that people can sit there and see where we are going now. I don't see it."

Ferdinand, who had urged the club to appoint his former United team-mate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as permanent boss after his outstanding spell as caretaker, believes United's problems run deeper than just the manager.

"Since that point (Solskjaer's permanent appointment) it has been a really rocky road.

"The problem is it is not one area of the club, it's everything that needs pulling together and it will take someone coming in with a vision to make that happen.

"Whether that person is in the building at the moment or not I don't know. The recruitment over the last seven years, (Marcos) Rojo, Falcao, (Marouane) Fellaini, (Matteo) Darmian, (Memphis) Depay, were these players ever Man Utd players really?

"Who is buying these players? Even now, you look at

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