Man Utd players told to show Rangnick ‘some respect and knuckle down’

Former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn thinks Man Utd supporters are “seeing through” the players’ apologies after matches.

The arrivals of Raphael Varane, Jadon Sancho and Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer was seen as the start of the Red Devils challenging towards the top of the Premier League.

However, they have had a terrible season and, following their 4-0 defeat to arch-rivals Liverpool on Tuesday night, Man Utd are now three points behind fourth-placed Tottenham having played a game more.

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Ralf Rangnick came in as interim manager at the end of November with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer sacked after a number of poor performances.

And Winterburn thinks it was “risky” taking on an interim boss in the first place but he insists that the Man Utd players now need to show Rangnick more respect after some recent awful displays.

The Arsenal legend told Paddy Power: “It’s so hard to say what’s going wrong at Manchester United without being on the inside every day to see what’s happening. It might be the players who aren’t getting along and performance-wise, they’re not showing the level of consistency that they should be, and they’re not happy with the way they’re being set up.

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“It was risky to take an interim manager because if things weren’t going well, he wouldn’t have authority over the players as they would’ve known that there’ll be another manager at the end of the season to reset and go again. Certain players might be thinking that