Manchester United legend and Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville is not at all inclined towards the club appointing Ralf Rangnick on a permanent basis as manager regardless of his results and is insistent that they need a top-class manager to avoid getting \u2018beat up\u2019 against the Premier League\u2019s top three.<\/p>\n
This is in view of the fact that the Red Devils have won a major match away over Leeds on Sunday to move four points clear of the marauders closing in on the fourth position as many among the chasing pack have multiple games in hand to close the gap.<\/p>\n
Rangnick is yet unbeaten in his last seven league matches despite sacrificing several leads recently and has creditably only lost once since taking over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at the helm as manager \u2013 but former United stalwart Neville still feels the German tactician is best suited to an advisory role in a sport directorial capacity and says United need to appoint a \u2018great\u2019 manager to compete with the likes of Liverpool, City and Chelsea.<\/p>\n
Speaking after United\u2019s 4-2 win at Elland Road, he said on The Gary Neville Podcast:<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t think he gets the job at the end of the season come what may now.<\/p>\n
\u2018I think there was maybe a feeling at the beginning that if he went like that [upturn in form] then that could happen, but that isn\u2019t going to happen. Manchester United will have a new manager next season.\u2019<\/p>\n
When asked if Rangnick will have a say in the appointment of his replacement, Neville opined: \u2018I think he will because what he\u2019s got is a real good view of the personalities, characters, performance levels and training levels of the current group of players.<\/p>\n
\u2018So he\u2019s in a strong position to be able to advise. He\u2019s probably in the strongest position to be able to advise because he\u2019s having day-to-day contact with them.<\/p>\n
\u2018He\u2019s seeing them, how they cope with disappointment, how they cope with atmospheres, how they cope with big games, how they cope with training, how they cope with three games in a week.<\/p>\n
\u2018Can they meet the demands of the club? Have they got the quality? He\u2019s seeing that and I think he\u2019ll judge that.<\/p>\n
\u2018People say he\u2019s a sporting director and he\u2019s a coach, but the reality of it is his position as coach is short term. His position in assisting the club and constructing their new methodology moving forward and their new structure moving forward is a longer term position for two years.<\/p>\n
\u2018So I\u2019d rather him get that bit right, I\u2019d rather the sort of short-term suffer for the longer term perspective being right. I think he\u2019s got good experience around building structures in football clubs and Manchester United do need that.<\/p>\n
\u2018And in the summer they\u2019ve got big appointments to make, namely the manager. The manager has got to be right next season to take on Thomas Tuchel, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, because if you don\u2019t take on those three with a manager who can face them like-for-like, you\u2019ll get beat up.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s been proven over the last few years that great managers in this league will bring you great things, and Manchester United need a great manager to compete with the ones that are at that level in this league at this moment in time.\u2019<\/p>\n
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