Gary Neville is furious about recent media disclosures about Erik ten Hag, his training techniques, tactics, and signings.

With a home win against Chelsea on Wednesday, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho relieved some of the club’s near-constant strain. United are only three points off of the Champions League places, but they never appear to be far from a crisis. They’ve already lost ten games this season, and Jadon Sancho has been kicked from the senior squad.

The United cluster-bomb ball was set in motion on the current episode of Stick to Football when Neville mentioned a recent interview given by former Red Devils midfielder Nemanja Matic to YU Planet. 

“Among the players who would always be late were Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho, as well as a couple of other players,” Matic explained, before adding that a fines list was put up one season, and late fee fines made up a significant portion of the £75,000 collected.

The entire panel, including Neville, Roy Keane, Ian Wright, and Jamie Carragher, were astounded that certain players were frequently permitted to arrive late and disrupt sessions. When he was at United, older players would nip such behavior in the bud, according to Keane. Keane admitting to being late on a couple of occasions early in his United career and being benched for it by Alex Ferguson.

That was just the beginning for the lads. When the panel reviewed recent leaks from within the Manchester United dressing room to the media, Neville, in particular, became enraged.

Gary Neville questioned aloud if Erik ten Hag’s decision to bar reporters from four outlets from some press conferences was an attempt by Manchester United to send a message or if the club was in danger.

Roy Keane reasoned that, as is often the case, the outcome of the pitch will determine how the ban on reporters is ultimately interpreted. The leaks casting doubt on Van Hag, according to Neville, “felt like Groundhog Day,” as they did for David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and even interim manager Ralf Rangnick.

Neville claimed he had been’soft on the players’ over the last 12 to 18 months because he had been focused on the ‘rotten environment’ created by United’s ownership group. However, the most recent leaks have irritated him.

“I think the biggest betrayal you can have in a football dressing room is when players, or players’ representatives, go to the media to undermine the manager,” he remarked. That is completely inexcusable.

“I focused on Monday and Tuesday, and when I heard these stories, I thought, ‘Here we go again, stories coming out, The f**kers.'” They’re working on it. They’re at it again, trying to get another manager fired, another bunch of players fired, and their comrades expelled’.

“You can tell it’s happening because it’s been fed to the media.” And I told them, ‘Stop whining, shut your mouths, work as hard as you can, and come back the next day and do it again.'”

Next up in the Premier League is Manchester United at home vs Bournemouth. If the weekend results go their way, they might be level on points with Manchester City, last season’s triple champions, and six points behind league leaders Arsenal.