Aftermath of Everton-Defeat: Man United sucked into vacuum of negativity - Jenas

Manchester United Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stunned at the 4 - 0 loss at Everton

Body language tells you a lot about a team, and from watching Manchester United for the first five minutes against Everton, it was obvious what kind of performance we were going to see from them.


United have got a lot of talented players but, right from the start of Sunday's embarrassing 4-0 defeat, they showed no heart, no desire and no will to win. They were woeful.

Everyone was guilty. Even Marcus Rashford, who has got one of the best attitudes of anyone at the club, got sucked in by what I would describe as a vacuum of negativity.

It was the kind of half-hearted display you might expect to see right at the end of the season from a team that have not had a great time of things and do not have anything to play for.

That was not the case with United, because a top-four place was on the table, but there was so little intensity from them. I did not see the work ethic you would expect from a team fighting to be in the Champions League next year.

It is displays like this that make me think there were some players out there who do not care - only a few, but that is enough - and have their eyes on a move elsewhere.

They are the ones who might have the quality to be a United player but are not up to the challenge, who are thinking 'this is not my problem because I am not going to be here much longer - this is your problem'.

That is the situation that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has got to sort out over the summer, and it will make things even harder for him if United are not in the Champions League next season.

I don't see how they will finish in the top four now and, if they do end up in the Europa League, I can already see some of their players being straight on the phone to their agents saying 'get me out of here because I want Champions League football'.
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