What's more annoying with Neville is he dichotomy of his behaviour. When watching United games, he's almost repulsed at what he sees. At the same time, he still talks about how much money has been spent constantly despite how bad the football being witnessed on the pitch is. Yet whenever he's faced with a question on whether to sack the manager, he always folds. He doesn't seem to understand that because United is a hard job, doesn't mean you can accept a rubbish manager.
We seem to be the only team in the world that actually follows this idea of giving managers time, and we've always struggled as a result. We're constantly throwing seasons away, yet acting like we aren't giving managers time. Moyes was horrible in his season here. An ambitious club would have sacked him in November, as there was still a chance to get back in the race for top 4 or even the title and compete in Europe. Instead, we kept him until April, destroying any chance of recovering the season. Then we had LVG. We allowed him to waste his first few months destroying the squad and employing a 352 formation that wasn't working. He kept at this till the end of December 2014. He then had a 433 that marginally worked, scrapped it, went on to destroy our squads for another summer, and adopt one of the most boring 4231's you will ever see. By December, after already being kicked out of Europe, it was clear his time was up. We had a chance to be rid of him and maybe secure top 4, but instead, we persisted with him providing terrible football until the end of the season. We then had Mourinho, who truly wasn't supported the way he should have been. However, he started 2018/2019 horribly and it was obvious that he wanted the sack. It took us until December to make that decision, again completely destroying our League campaign. We persisted with Ole, even though it was clear he was a bit of a novice, and instead of relieving him at the end of 18/19, used sentiment to give him a full time contract when other managers were available. At the time, we knew Ole did not have the experience or tactical nous to compete with Pep and Klopp, but kept him on. Now we're here with Ten Hag. He had the worst season I've seen a big club have in recent memory, yet because he won the FA Cup, fan sentiment kept him on.
All of this shows that at United, managers have always been kept on far longer than they should have been. Yet the media narrative drawn by people like Neville has always been to give managers time, whilst not having the same line of thinking about other clubs. There is always this need to make sacking look dirty when its United, yet permissable for other clubs. This is what makes his discussions on United so annoying. It's clear he doesn't enjoy the football or think Ten Hag is good enough. Yet is holding the club to a standard of giving him time out of some weird sense of respect rather than the actual good of the club.
