Former Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand has slammed manager Jose Mourinho over his recent comments concerning the club’s youngsters.
Prior to a goal was draw against Crystal Palace on Saturday, Mourinho had publicly berated Luke Shaw, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard. He accused the players of lacking maturity.
Reacting to Mourning’s comments, Ferdinand believes the manager was wrong to have publicly slated the players.
“When you get comments that come out of the club in a press conference or an interview that he done in the week where he’s hammering four or five of the young players at the club, saying their mentality isn’t right, what do you expect? Ferdinand told BT Sport.
“Do you expect to have players on your side or do you expect your players to go ‘hold on a minute, my manager is hammering me in public again.
“I just don’t think it’s right for a football manager to be doing that.
“I don’t think you’re going to get productivity out of those kind of comments. I don’t think it’s proactive for the club.
“What he’s said, that might be true. He’s behind closed doors, he sees these boys day in, day out.
“He might look at those 4 or 5 kids and go, ‘you know what, this is exactly how I feel about you.’ He’s got that right to say that.
“But I think behind closed doors, in the changing room embarrass them in front of the team.
“You don’t get positivity doing that publicly and the fans don’t like that either.”
