Ralf Rangnick has exposed the Glazers and Manchester United players

The leaks that sprung from the visiting dressing room at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday evening were as inevitable as they were shameful.

From the news that Ralf Rangnick's Manchester United team selections are upsetting some players, to Marcus Rashford's apparent unhappiness with his current playing time; it truly was a lesson in how to badly misread the room. On Tuesday, more murmurings about being unhappy with Rangnick and his methods emerged.

Many United fans reacted to Sunday's Manchester derby aberration by urging players not to trot out the usual hollow social media apologies. It was rightly said they would be empty and meaningless. In the end, it actually reflected well on Jadon Sancho and David de Gea — United's two best players in the 4-1 defeat to City — that they spoke directly to their followings on Instagram rather than through conduits with media leaks.

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It was clear, as soon as the energy immediately sapped from the United bodies following Riyad Mahrez's sumptuous half-volley from Kevin de Bruyne's corner, that the post-mortem on this demolition derby would be messy. United ended the game in complete ignominy, having started with genuine promise with Rangnick's aggressive pressing tactics putting City under pressure.

While Micah Richards, Roy Keane and Gary Neville partook in a shouting match in the Sky Sports studio above him, again Rangnick was calm, cutting and ultra-honest with his post-game comments. He was asked whether the defeat exposed the widening chasm between United and the best teams in the Premier League, like City.

"I knew that before I came," Rangnick said. "I wouldn’t have needed that game to