As an analyst, he's an absolute trainwreck.
He's supposed to be analysing Man United games but he has a blind spot as big as the whole pitch in front of him when it comes to his former club.
His only former club, I might add, because here we have a guy who in all of his career only witnessed one dressing room, one club, and one manager. He knows shit about football, as a whole, even though he always likes to point to his experience as a player when analysing things.
He's intellectually incapable of dealing with the situation.
Think about it, faced with the question of whether there are better managers for Man United out there than Solskjaer, he actually says that because the club "has gone down that road before" (of hiring 'top managers on paper'?!) they're hesitant to do it now.
I'm puzzled how someone's reasoning could be so stupid. Because Man United hired managers with 'top CVs' in van Gaal and Mourinho before and it didn't work, they're now hesitant towards hiring someone like Conte. How does that make any sense?
First of all, both van Gaal and Mourinho were beyond past it when they were hired and had giant flashing warning signs pointing to their massive, massive flaws.
And then, because they didn't work out, you now can't hire a manager with top experience in the future? Like, ever?
Bizarre. This guy doesn't actually understand that hiring, and sacking, managers is a basic, elementary process within running a club. Ànd of course, you need to hire the best you can get. But because he's only ever played under one manager, he has no grasp on the issue whatsoever.
And then Roy Keane alongside, whose whole train of thought is how this would never have happened when he was still playing for Man United and how these players now are just "so, so poor", all coated in this annoying expression of Irish Catholic contempt and moral judgement, you are witnessing a punditing farce of the highest order.
Can't they employ some people who are actually neutral and competent?