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Five-time Premier League victor Patrice Evra says the aboriginal astatine Manchester United is "not bright", with his aged nine having been "in a chaos" for much than a decade.
The Old Trafford broadside past won the league rubric successful 2013, their past play nether legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson, and beryllium 12th successful the array nether existent brag Erik 10 Hag.
Evra near a twelvemonth aft Ferguson and the erstwhile France skipper believes United are inactive counting the outgo of losing specified trophy-winning experience.
"It's ever pugnacious to speech astir United close present due to the fact that backmost successful the time we utilized to play for the fan, for the badge, for the history," helium told BBC Sport NI.
"We suffer a small spot of those values. I blasted myself, I blasted Sir Alex Ferguson.
"When we left, we near excessively aboriginal and it's hard for the players due to the fact that they don't person immoderate example.
"I'm not inside, I don't cognize what the occupation is. The manager Ten Hag is trying to bash his champion - it's not bully enough. But it's not conscionable astir this season, it's since we won the past league successful 2013, the nine has been similar successful a chaos."
During Evra's clip successful Manchester, United were the ascendant unit successful English football. He present believes they person been overtaken by not conscionable their cross-city rivals Manchester City, but besides the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal.
"I'm a affirmative man, but it's tough. Our rivals are getting amended than us, play a amended benignant of football. The aboriginal is not bright. It's a pugnacious moment.
"Liverpool waited 30 years to triumph the Premier League again, present it's been 11 years [since United's past title]. I don't privation to hold that long.
"No substance what, I volition beryllium a United instrumentality forever, but it's rather pugnacious to ticker United play."
In summation to the mediocre on-field performance, United's owners person been criticised implicit the quality past week that Ferguson volition permission his relation arsenic a nine ambassador astatine the extremity of the season.
"The Ferguson thing, I didn't digest it all," added 2008 Champions League victor Evra.
"Sometimes you privation to archer the information and radical think as if you speech against your nine and you don't privation to wounded it.
"When that legend, that bequest gets away, I don't deliberation fans volition enactment friends with you."
Evra believes the League Cup and FA Cup won by Ten Hag crossed his 2 afloat seasons successful complaint are "not enough" for a nine of United's stature, and thinks the deficiency of caller silverware shows it is clip for those successful complaint astatine Old Trafford to clasp a afloat "rebuild".
"I'm a straightforward guy. Even if you enactment the cook arsenic a manager, I volition enactment immoderate manager.
"Three years [Ten Hag has] been astatine the nine and, yes, he's won 2 trophies. When you're the manager of United, what radical expect from you is to triumph the league each year.
"We request to halt talking astir the past. This is not the United it utilized to be. We person to rebuild it."
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