Can you find me that quote?
How do you know what hurts the players?
Or are you just projecting your thin skin, onto them?
Football players are tough. They have to be to play in front of tens of thousands of opposition fans at away grounds. Not to mention the mental toughness to make it to the top and past so many other aspiring players.
If you want to criticize a group of people, criticize the fans. How many negative Dalot post / tweets / instagrams have we seen in the last week? All way more critical than anything an ex United pundit has said.
Butt and scholes did that few days ago in the podcast.
Scholes: “Martinez against Haaland,” followed by a wince.
To which Butt responded: “Haaland would pick Martinez up and run with him. You know when you see a dad at school running down the road with a little toddler.”
Scholes concluded: “He’d score, then throw him in the net.”
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And this is what Eriksen had to say after leaving the club:
Ex-Manchester United midfielder Christian Eriksen has claimed that former players in prominent media positions don’t “help” the current squad when opinions become too “negative”.
Eriksen suggested that fans are likely to “follow their heroes on TV”—the likes of Gary Neville, Roy Keane and Paul Scholes who have been ruthlessly critical of their former club in recent years.
“You see how big the club is, how much people want to be involved with the club, even on the media attention. I think even now we speak about United here. It’s just the power of the club,” the Denmark international, now at Wolfsburg after leaving Old Trafford in the summer, told ESPN.
“Obviously the more opinionated, the more feelings towards the club are negative, the tougher it is, because the fans follow their heroes on the TV and it doesn’t help the players at the club.”
