Fires Back at Jose Mourinho for Hammering his Young Players in Public

Ferdinand has clapped back at Jose Mourinho's criticism of his Manchester United players saying that it is having a negative effect on performances of the young players.

He said,

“Do you expect to have players on your side or do you expect your players to go ‘hold on a minute, my manager is hammering me in public again’?

“I just don’t think it’s right for a football manager to be doing that. I don’t think you’re going to get productivity out of those kind of comments. I don’t think it’s proactive for the club.

“What he’s said might be true. He’s behind closed doors, he sees these boys day in, day out. He might look at those four or five kids and go ‘you know what, this is exactly how I feel about you’. He’s got that right to say that.

“But I think behind closed doors, in the changing room, embarrass them in front of the team. You don’t get positivity doing that publicly and the fans don’t like that either.”

Indeed, many United fans were calling for Mourinho to be sacked after his side's lacklustre start to the season.

The Portuguese coach looked to have turned things around with impressive wins over Newcastle, Everton, Bournemouth and Juventus, but the 3-1 defeat to Manchester City before the international break and the latest 0-0 draw with Palace spells fresh trouble for the Reds' boss.