Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has blasted the Glazer family for their role in the team's struggles, with the Red Devils in crisis mode at the start of the 2022-23 campaign.

A disappointing 2021-22 season saw Man United finish down in sixth spot in the Premier League table, but there was optimism around the club over the summer following the arrival of new head coach Erik ten Hag.

The 20-time English champions have made a disastrous start to the new season, though, losing 2-1 at home to Brighton & Hove Albion on the opening weekend before going down 4-0 at Brentford on Saturday.

Man United are currently bottom of the Premier League table ahead of their next game against Liverpool, and Neville slammed the club's owners following the embarrassing defeat in London.

"Joel Glazer's got to get on a plane tomorrow, get over to Manchester and he has got to start and divert the issues away from the club, and tell everyone what the hell his plan is for the football club. What is he doing?" Neville told Sky Sports News.

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"How many times are we going to sit here and say that the players lack leadership and personality? These players have proven that they cannot handle it, so they needed to have a good transfer market. They have not had a good transfer market.

"When a business is failing and it's not performing, it is the owners of that business [who are to blame]. It is really simple. It is failing miserably. They took about £24m out of the club two months ago and they have now got a decrepit, rotting stadium, which is, to be fair, second-rate, when it used to be the best in the world 15-20 years ago.

"You have got a football club where they haven't got a clue. They have bankers in charge of the football club, not making football decisions. They have not appointed a sporting director.

"We can look at the players all you like, but there are that many big things that need to be put right first, they have got to show up and basically face the music. Now is the time. They can't keep hiding in Tampa and thinking that nothing is going to come back to them."

Man United have only brought in three new players during the summer transfer window, with Tyrell Malacia, Lisandro Martinez and Christian Eriksen arriving at Old Trafford.

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"The only money that has been spent on players at United is the money that the club has generated or it has borrowed. It does not come from the family, so let's get this out of our heads that the Glazer family is putting money in every year, just like Roman Abramovich did, like the Saudi Arabians are doing at Newcastle, like Sheikh Mansour has done at Manchester City, who put their hands in their pockets and spend on players," Neville continued.

"They have not done that; they have borrowed and have used the revenue that the club has generated through its incredible fanbase and great commercial operation. That is what happens.

"If us four [Neville, Jamie Redknapp, Karen Carney and Kelly Cates] own that club tomorrow, we could spend the same money every year on that football club through its generations of revenue. That's a fact.

"These owners, since Sir Alex Ferguson left, have proven that they cannot manage a forward-thinking football club. It has been overtaken in every single department and it is painful and woeful."

Man United are still said to be working on a deal for Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong, while Atletico Madrid's Alvaro Morata and Juventus' Adrien Rabiot are also being linked with switches to Old Trafford before the end of the transfer window.