Manchester United player leaks remind Chelsea why Roman Abramovich cannot tolerate circuses

It was telling that the first club Gary Neville thought of referring to when discussing Manchester United's recent player leaks to the media was Chelsea.

"I remember sitting there at lunchtime with our team, and they were getting messages of team news being leaked and the manager being slagged off, and I sat there thinking, does this actually happen?" Neville said on Sunday.

The incident Neville recalled to was the final days of Andre Villa-Boas as Chelsea's head coach ten years ago when he was covering a Blues game for Sky Sports.

"Players agents and PR teams were briefing the media on a matchday about what was going on inside a club, and it was the first time I had seen it and known for it to happen – it really unnerved me."

Neville went on to lambast the current Manchester United squad members doing the same to Ralf Rangnick on his podcast.

The nonsensical stories coming out that suggest Rangnick's assistant Chris Armas had been compared to fictional coach Ted Lasso reeked of a toxic dressing room filled with characters unable to take accountability.

The most damning thing you can say about Man United is the fact their current squad has only made the three previous coaches look brighter with the gift of hindsight.

There has been no drastic upturn in form nor performance since Rangnick's arrival, and the weekly leaks to the press reflect terribly on the mentality of a dressing room that has consistently failed.

It reflects an overly-pampered and overrated group of players who cannot handle being asked to press in the Premier League. Something a vast majority of professional clubs do now.

Chelsea must avoid similar circuses of their own in the past whilst aiming to replicate the unified front seen at the two teams above