Gary Neville full transcript - On Solskjaer sacking, Glazers and Man Utd future

Gary Neville has given his views on the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after Manchester United confirmed that the Norwegian had left the club on Sunday morning.

United's humiliating 4-1 defeat to Watford appeared to be the final straw amongst the club's hierarchy, as Solskjaer bowed out with just one win from his final seven Premier League games.

Neville had received some criticism from fellow pundits and United fans for appearing to support Solskjaer despite the poor performances, but the damage has now been done as the Norwegian departs.

The Sky Sports pundit was the man to hear from this morning, and gave his views on the situation, naturally having a lot to say following such a big decision.

Neville on United:

"In the past he's always had that result to pull him out of the mire.

"This time the results have got worse and worse and worse. The team have been all over the place.

"The first thing is the performances. The team have looked all over the place. I didn't see the game yesterday but I saw the highlights, saw some of the goals, the defending is absolutely woeful. The goalkeepers, the defenders, and that's a back four, a back-five, who have played with each other a number of times.

"Watford aren't the best team in league by a long stretch but they got mauled Manchester United yesterday. Ole couldn't get a performance out of them in the end.

"The players look drained of confidence and I'm not surprised today that it has ended and look, I said a few weeks ago, the worst that could've happened for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is that he became a bridge from what would be quite a dark period to the club to what I think maybe, hopefully, a positive future for the club.

"They need to get the next appointment right and that'll probably be at the end of the season."

Neville on Bruno's 'don't blame Ole gesture':

"In terms of Bruno going over to the fans and saying it's not all on Ole, I think that's absolutely right. Seven or eight weeks ago there was euphoria at Old Trafford and it's just deteriorated.

"I've never been there in a dressing room where the players have felt so drained in confidence. I don't think they are players who don't care. I don't buy that. I think they're a good group of lads. They've looked rudderless on the pitch, rudderless off the pitch."

Neville on appointing an interim boss:

"They haven't planned for this, they haven't prepared for it. It's deteriorated so badly and so quickly.

"If there was a world class manager sat on the shelf ready to go, I think Ole would have gone two or three weeks ago.

"Manchester United's board were never going to appoint Antonio Conte. I don't think he would've been a fit."

Neville on managerial woes:

"This is the third time in the last eight years that a manager has been given a long contract or an extension and been sacked.

"I've had enough, to be honest. The club is run on a business side okay but on the football side it leaves a lot to be desired.

"They've been caught out over the last few weeks. They've been indecisive. I think getting to the end of the season was the right plan but yesterday it was quite clear those players weren't responding to the manager. I don't think the players disliked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer."

Neville on United's plan:

"They don't have a plan for the next manager at this moment in time because obviously they wouldn't be announcing that they're appointing an interim manager to the end of the season or that Carrick would be coming in now.

"We've seen managers lose their jobs in the last few weeks - Nuno, Dean Smith at Aston Villa - where there have been plans in place, ready made replacements to come in. Manchester United haven't got that plan.

"This is the third time in the last eight years that a manager has been given a long term contract or an extension and lost their job within a few months. The planning hasn't been great.

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"I don't want to stick the knife in today to the club, the club's owners, the club's hierarchy but you have to ask serious questions. I've had enough of it.

"The club is ran on a business side, okay, but culturally and from a point of view of football decision making it leaves a lot to be desired.

"The reality of it is, is that they've been caught out again, caught out in the last few weeks. They've not known what to do, they've been indecisive. Before the international break they probably should've made a change if they were going to make it.

"I can see why they were trying to crawl over the line because getting to the end of the season was the right plan but yesterday it was quite clear those players weren't responding to the manager and the manager's not getting a tune out of the players. I don't think the players dislike OGS and I don't think OGS doesn't like the players."

Neville on OGS commitment:

"I've got no doubt that every decision that man has made in the last three years he's been at this club will have been in the best interests of Manchester United.

"He absolutely loves the club so I've got no problems with his effort or his commitment but he couldn't get his team out on the pitch in the last two months to play football very well at all. They were poor.

"The players couldn't bring it upon themselves which tells you there's a lack of leaders and characters in the dressing room that can pull together a performance irrespective of the manager's situation.

"It's a situation we have seen before in football, it'll happen again, where ultimately it comes to the end of a road and you can see it coming and you're hoping there's still that last gasp somewhere.

"You're hoping that they can find that second wind, that third wind. This was a horrific week. Watford have mauled them, they've messed them around, out fought them. When Watford do that to you, it spells the end."

Neville on OGS pride:

"Ole will reflect upon it with sadness at the end but he should be proud of the work he did in the first two or three years.

"I think saying he rebuilt the club is too far but he rebuilt the soul of the club. The was in a dark place at the end of the Jose Mourinho era.

"There were some players who were there for the money, who were mercenary and I think now at least in the dressing room now they're a good bunch of lads, they need to sort themselves out.

They have got to perform and they have Chelsea next Sunday and they'll get battered on live television in front of the whole country next Sunday if they don't sort themselves out."

Neville on behind-the-scenes at Old Trafford

"I hope the problems are just the manager and that something hasn't happened in that changing room in the last couple of months that has made them be as bad as they have and I hope they can pick themselves up under an interim manager.

"Obviously Michael Carrick and then someone else in the next couple of weeks but that dressing room at this moment in time looks absolutely broken.

"They look drained of any confidence, the world is on their shoulders when they play and they've got to go back to thinking when they played as kids because it looks too much for them at the moment.

"I do worry how that dressing room has disintegrated. I'm a little worried how it got so bad so quickly because eight weeks ago it was euphoria in Manchester and literally eight weeks later it is a manager who has lost his job."

Neville on staffing

"What the club have done over the last two or three years is invest heavily, not just in Ole's coaching staff but in general around the football side of the club.

"I suspect the appointment that they make will have to fit into that because it would be a big about turn for them to go back on all those people they've employed.

"They've employed an absolute army of people in recruitment, in coaching, in technical director side, the sporting director side. All questions will be asked in the next few weeks.

"I'm not sure or convinced that Manchester United have got the right football people at the club to deliver them success but the appointment of the next manager will tell us that."

Neville on the possibility of Pochettino

"I think Pochettino has always been a stand out candidate.

"He's been the only name I've really ever mentioned as someone who I've thought really suits Manchester United in terms of its core principles, values, how they play, how he acts and how he behaves.

"He hasn't really been successful as a manager in terms of proven but I do think he has those characteristics and attributes.

"It's too early to talk about a new manager, there's a lot of water to go under the bridge."