Nani tells Erik ten Hag he has two options to deal with Manchester United players

Former Manchester United icon Nani has told Erik ten Hag that he has two options for dealing with his players after Saturday's embarrassing defeat to Brentford.

United were at sixes and sevens against Brentford last Saturday as they fell to back-to-back Premier League defeats to start the season. Josh Dasilva, Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo all scored in the first half as the Bees ran the Reds ragged at the Brentford Community Stadium.

In the aftermath of the defeat, MEN Sport understands that Ten Hag is considering dropping Harry Maguire for their next Premier League fixture against Liverpool. Meanwhile, United have approached Real Madrid over the prospect of signing Casemiro while also coming to the decision to sell highly-rated youngster James Garner.

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On the training pitch, Ten Hag will be working hard to see an improvement from his players ahead of the visit of Jurgen Klopp's side who have also had a slow start to the season with two draws from their opening league fixtures. Nani spent eight years at Manchester United and he told Rio Ferdinand's Vibe with Five podcast that Ten Hag has two ways of approaching the United players ahead of the Liverpool match.

"I think the manager could do two things," Nani explained. "Don't say nothing.

"The next game we know he will change a lot and then every player that week will be thinking: 'Ooh the manager is angry and not saying nothing'. Then they will be thinking: 'Who is going to play?'

"That way everyone is fighting on the field. Rio will know that because we have had some situation when we lose, even 1-0 or 2-1 against Liverpool or something like that.

"Or he will try to talk to everyone and