The past week has been one to forget at Old Trafford - on and off the field. This is the story of what happened and when...
Chief executive Richard Arnold held a meeting with the club’s executive leadership in the first week of August to inform them that the plan was for Greenwood to return to the first-team squad.’s report, United insisted that a decision “had not yet been made” but still faced internal unrest and external criticism for their willingness to bring back a player accused of sexual and physical abuse.
“It is not about the midfield, it is about the back and the front, that is why we were open,” Ten Hag said. “They didn’t run. Or they run in the wrong moment — too late. Especially the front didn’t recover.“First 35 minutes, we were so good in the game, dominated totally, we should have scored minimum once, but I think two. They were nowhere, nothing, and then things happened in the game, then they got distracted, not doing their jobs anymore.
Gary Neville, the long-time United full-back and now influential Sky Sports pundit, agreed that United had reached the correct decision but described their handling of the process as “pretty horrible”, saying: There have been tensions between the women’s team and United because of the way they were thrust into the story, with a suggestion their opinion would be an important factor in the decision-making process. Players Mary Earps, Ella Toone and Katie Zelem, the captain, received abuse online from fans wanting Greenwood’s return when it was publicly perceived they would cast votes on the matter.
However that had a knock-on effect for a behind-closed-doors friendly against Burnley played at United’s Carrington base the following day. A United side lost 3-0 to last season’s Championship title winners, a scoreline that set social media abuzz, although there was important context behind the result that was missed due to the fixture’s secretive nature.
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