Rio Ferdinand believes Manchester United’s players should be embarrassed by their performances after they crashed out of the Champions League on Tuesday evening.
United now face the prospect of playing in the Europa League after they slipped to a 3-2 defeat to Wolfsburg in their final game of the Champions League group stage.
“It’s embarrassing, I was in a squad that went in the Europa League, it’s an embarrassment,” the former United defender told BT Sport.
“You don’t want to come out of your house, you don’t want to walk around Manchester, people looking at you and thinking you’re not good enough, questioning you as an individual, as a team who didn’t get through the group stages that you should have, on paper.”
United took an early through Anthony Martial and while a late Josuha Guilavogui own goal looked to have given United a lifeline, Naldo’s winner in the 84th minute sealed victory for Wolfsburg.
And Ferdinand believes United’s squad requires a significant overhaul if they are to progress in Europe.
“If you strip it back and look at this squad, this squad needs a real hard looking at,” said Ferdinand.
“There’s no pace in the squad, no power, there doesn’t seem to be great resilience at times, the leaders you look for in situations like this, at the moment it looks like people are looking around at each other rather than being the man to stand up and saying ‘I’m going to drag you through the forces’.
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