Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has openly criticised new manager David Moyes about how he does things around the club.
The veteran defender has voiced his displeasure at how Moyes deals with the players on match-days and he has revealed that he doesn’t announce the team until minutes before kick-off.
Moyes’s start to life at Old Trafford hasn’t been successful as his side sit ninth in the league and 12 points behind league leaders Arsenal already.
Ferdinand, who has been revealed as one of the BBC members for the Summer World Cup, has recently given an interview to BT Sport, and he admitted that Moyes’ ways are very different to Sir Alex Ferguson’s and it’s a lot harder working under the former-Everton boss.
‘This manager’s a bit different in that he doesn’t name the team beforehand. You don’t really get to know the team. The old manager used to give you a kind of a little bit of an idea if you’d be playing and stuff.
‘When you know you’re playing the intensity goes up a little bit more on matchday and that’s what you need to try and make sure you’re doing even if you don’t know you’ll be playing to try and get to that intensity you’d be at when you know you’re playing.
‘It’s hard… it’s hard to do that mentally because you spend a lot of nervous energy thinking “Am I playing?” or “Am I not playing?” and you’re just going round in circles in your head and turning into a madman.’
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
