Five Manchester United players should fear for their places vs Everton after dressing room meeting

Erik ten Hag called a meeting with Manchester United's players at Carrington on Monday following the club's latest humiliation in the Manchester derby and the Dutchman said the players would be invited to openly criticise each other during the inquest.

It's just a shame Amazon Prime has not commissioned an 'All or Nothing' series to follow this season under Ten Hag, although it might be foolish to think footage of such discussions would not deliberately be left on the cutting room floor.

Manchester City and Arsenal had editorial control with their respective documentaries and a cynic would suggest that leaves the finished product as a PR exercise, but others would argue it made for entertaining TV regardless of representing a distorted truth.

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Whatever the players said to each other in that discussion on Monday, it probably won't be self-critical enough. Bruno Fernandes and Christian Eriksen blamed the defeat on a 'lack of belief' and that poor excuse has obviously not been accepted by supporters.

United had taken a maximum 12 points from their previous four Premier League games against Liverpool, Southampton, Leicester and Arsenal, which makes it difficult to accept that the players were suffering from a lack of self-confidence.

City beat United home and away last season and a degree of insecurity in the dressing room would be normal because of that, but that does not excuse the manner of Sunday's performance.

While United were collectively awful and grossly inferior, there were far too many individuals that were markedly below the level required, and those players should have been told some home truths in the crisis meeting on Monday.

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