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MAN UTD’S CONFLICT: 4 stars in fᴜrious dressing room bust-up after nightmare start to season continued with Brighton hammering fratricide

Football — 09/19/2023

FOUR Manchester United stars were involved in a furious dressing-room bust-up after Saturday’s home defeat to Brighton.

And United legend Gary Neville claims unhappy players could be “BUGS” creating “discomfort and uncertainty” for Erik ten Hag’s strugglers.

Bruno Fernandes confronted Scott McTominay after the Brighton defeat

Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof also had a falling out

Gary Neville believes Erik ten Hag has some ‘bugs’ in his squad

SunSport can reveal captain Bruno Fernandes confronted fellow midfielder Scott McTominay after United’s third defeat in four games.

While centre-back pairing Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof also lost it with each other following a calamitous defensive display.

Manager Ten Hag tried to restore order as the post-mortem began on a shocking 3-1 defeat that sparked boos from disgruntled fans.

Jadon Sancho has been excluded from first-team practices by the 53-year-old Dutch manager.

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Ten Hag also removed Harry Maguire from his starting XI and deprived him of the captaincy. He was already without Mason Greenwood and Antony due to issues off the field.

And in a TikTok video, ex-England full-back Neville said: “How popular is Sancho in the dressing room? How popular is Maguire?

“Ten Hag has got some bugs in there that we don’t know from the outside what discomfort and uncertainty is being created on the inside.

“You’ve got a player who’s probably changing in the first-team dressing room but is over with the academy. You’ve got Harry, who was captain of these players 12 months ago but has now almost been alienated to the third, fourth, fifth centre-half.

“So Ten Hag has some situations in there and I don’t know the damage that is having.

“There has been many a manager since Sir Alex Ferguson left, good managers who have found challenges at United.

“I’m hoping it’s just a difficult start to the season and not a repeat of what we’ve seen previously — where it started to become challenging for Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, David Moyes, Ralf Rangnick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.”

Following their poorest Premier League start ever, United will play Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

With just six points from five games, they are now in 13th place.