Pressure!! Eriksen Accuses Ex-United Players Of Causing Huge Damage

Christian Eriksen has accused former Manchester United players in prominent media positions of not helping the current squad as he claims their opinions on the team are too “negative”.

The likes of Gary Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Roy Keane and Paul Scholes—have been critical of their former club in recent years and Eriksen believes some words are not meant to be said on air.

According to the Denmark international, fans are likely to follow their heroes on TV and hearing a negative opinion about the club won’t help.

“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.”

Christian Eriksen left Manchester United as a free agent last summer and moved to VfL Wolfsburg. (Photo by Rene Nijhuis/MB Media/Getty Images)

Eriksen suggested it was time for people to be “realistic” about United, who have failed to win a Premier League title since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 but have continued to triumph in cup competitions at a quicker rate than the vast majority of clubs.

“I think obviously [fans] want to get back to being stable as a top club, but even being there, winning the FA Cup and the Carabao in the last two seasons is something that any other club would be proud of to have done,” Eriksen said.

“Then there is also the size and the image and the feeling at United—it’s like it’s not good enough. I think hopefully that will change. Even the Carabao is a small thing, but at that moment it is a big thing.”

While United have failed to win the Premier League since 2013, the Red Devils have picked up some Cup titles.

United won the FA Cup little over a year ago and the League [Carabao] Cup the season before that. There have been other FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League successes, making it five trophies in the last 12 years.

Talking of pure numbers, United are only two fewer trophies than Liverpool, albeit not similar Premier League or Champions League successes, and one more than Arsenal.