{"id":739604,"date":"2022-01-07T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/ralf-rangnick-downplays-talk-of-unrest-at-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:18:36","slug":"ralf-rangnick-downplays-talk-of-unrest-at-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/ralf-rangnick-downplays-talk-of-unrest-at-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralf Rangnick downplays talk of unrest at Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester \u2014 Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick has downplayed reports of dressing room discontent at Old Trafford, saying unrest is inevitable with a deep squad.<\/p>\n

The German has suggested the squad he inherited is too big, with many players unhappy at their lack of playing time.<\/p>\n

United suffered a demoralising 1-0 home defeat to Wolves on Monday that could prove costly in their bid to finish in the Premier League’s top four.<\/p>\n

The Mirror newspaper reported on Thursday that as many as 17 players wanted to leave the club, who are 22 points behind leaders Manchester City.<\/p>\n

“If you have that many players and 10 outfield players can play and three being substituted, then of course you have quite a number of players — in our case 12, 13, 14 players who don’t even play, or not even being in the squad,” said Rangnick on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Then those players are not happy about that situation. It’s obvious, it’s clear.<\/p>\n

“In total, we have a big squad. I tend to explain to players every two or three weeks why they are not playing but obviously I cannot do that every game and that is an issue in our team as well as in other clubs.”<\/p>\n

Paul Pogba and Edinson Cavani are the two highest-profile stars out of contract at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Anthony Martial looks set to leave in January, with Sevilla reportedly close to agreeing a loan deal for the France international.<\/p>\n

Dean Henderson, Jesse Lingard, Juan Mata and Donny van de Beek could also move on in search of more first-team action.<\/p>\n

“We have players with contracts expiring in the summer,” said Rangnick. “We have maybe also one or two players who still want to leave, although they are under contract.<\/p>\n

“It’s about the players dealing with that in a professional way. Everybody has the chance and the option to show in training, to show up and then get a chance to play.<\/p>\n

“If this is not the case then of course the player together with club and the agents, they need to discuss the situation.”<\/p>\n

Monday’s FA Cup third-round clash with Aston Villa could have been an opportunity for Rangnick to use some of his fringe players.<\/p>\n

But the pressure is on the German not to crash out of the competition at the first hurdle after suffering the first defeat of his short reign against Wolves.<\/p>\n

AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester \u2014 Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick has downplayed reports of dressing room discontent at Old Trafford, saying unrest is inevitable with a deep squad. The German has suggested the squad he inherited is too big, with many players unhappy at their lack of playing time. United suffered a demoralising 1-0 home defeat to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}