Scholes: Having a sporting director [Rangnick] as coach is not right

Ralf Rangnick is not the ideal coach for Manchester United, said Paul Scholes after the Red Devils' bad performance continued against Southampton on Saturday. 

Che Adams equalized Jadon Sancho's opening at Old Trafford as United drew their second

game in a row. 

Burnley halted the Red Devils to a 0-0 draw in midweek, after a penalty shootout loss to Middlesbrough in the

on February 4.

Man Utd had led at halftime in all three games, with the two Premier League ties marking only the second occasion in the tournament's history that they have missed winning successive games after leading at halftime.

United are now in fifth place, giving their opponents a chance to leapfrog them in the

qualifying chase. 

Rangnick took over as temporary manager for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in November, with the previous RB Leipzig trainer and director also expected to take on a consulting role until 2024. 

United, on the other hand, have scored fewer goals per match under Rangnick than they have under any other coach in Premier League history (1.4 – 14 goals in 10 games), and their recent form has fueled conjecture that the players do not believe in his philosophy. 

Rangnick rejected these accusations in his pre-game press conference, but United legend Scholes has been underwhelmed by what he has seen thus far.

"That's the feeling around the place [quiet inside Old Trafford] there's a lack of interest now with how the season's been," Scholes said in his role as a pundit on BT Sport.

"It's been a bad seven days, it's really been a bad six or seven months.

"The sacking of Ole was coming, we all knew that, but where was the plan? There has to be a plan, there has to be an elite, top coach into the football club to revive the football club.

"It's Manchester United, they should have the best of everything, and to not have a plan and bring what is a sporting director... he's coached a team two years out of the last 10.

"Don't get me wrong, I like the man, he comes across well, but he's looked like he's lacked coaching in the last five or six years. They're a team of individuals, you look at the difference today in United to Southampton.

"Southampton were brilliant, the coaching, methods, passages of play, it was fantastic.

"One team have got a proper coach, the other team has a sporting director, which isn't right for Manchester United."

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