Tässä vielä tuo koko lainaus, jossa Neville puhui tuosta alemmalle puoliskolle sijoittumisesta:
"...even in this early stage, where the first points are coming from"
GN: "As I sit here now, Dave, and I think there's a massive decision to make on Cristiano Ronaldo. I think they are damned if they do and they are damned if they don't. I think a few weeks ago, before the season started, before these two results, I said the best thing to do is to facilitate a move out of the club for Cristiano Ronaldo. Because obviously he is not happy and the club is not happy with him. The problem is now, I think if they lose him, then there's nothing left in terms of the actual goal-scoring part of the pitch. I genuinely think that if they don't bring players in in this next couple of weeks, or if they bring poor players in, and he leaves, I genuinely think they could finish in the bottom half of the table. I think that's a bottom half of the table team. That's a massive statement here tonight. I might look stupid at the end of the season..."
"...They finished second in the Europa league final 15 months ago, the same players we were watching on Saturday. They're absolutely demoralized and shot to pieces and I think it's really bad in there. And I thought Erik Ten Hag, in preseason, had got them into a confident level, but actually, what's happened is that basically they've gone back to default and the old things have come back".
"The coach is obviously a fantastic coach. He's proven that over the last few years. However, he's been dealt a really bad hand. To not get the players in that he wanted at the start of the season is a shocker, an absolute shocker".
Mä en näe tuossa oikeastaan mitään sellaista, josta voisin olla eri mieltä. On perusteltua epäillä, ettei United saa tuotua pelaajia sisään tai että sisään tuotavat pelaajat voisivat olla heikkoja JA että Ronaldo lähtee. Tällaisessa tilanteessa pahin uhkakuva on oikeasti paha. Toisaalta Neville on oikeassa siinäkin, että Ronaldon jääminen olisi Unitedille sekin todella huono asia.
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