Christian Eriksen has criticised the role that former Manchester United players in the media can play in increasing pressure on the current squad. The Denmark international, who is now at Wolfsburg after leaving Old Trafford in the summer, told ESPN that negative commentary from high-profile ex-players can make life harder for those still at the club.<\/p>\n
“You see how big the club is, how much people want to be involved with the club, even on the media attention. I think even now we speak about United here. It\u2019s just the power of the club,” Eriksen said. He added: “Obviously the more opinionated, the more feelings towards the club are negative, the tougher it is, because the fans follow their heroes on the TV and it doesn\u2019t help the players at the club.” <\/p>\n
Eriksen also called for a more measured assessment of United\u2019s recent record. The club have not won the Premier League since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013 but have continued to collect domestic and European cup trophies more frequently than many rivals. The Red Devils picked up the FA Cup little over a year ago and the League Cup the season before that. There have been other FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League successes, making it five trophies in the last 12 years. In pure numbers, it\u2019s only two fewer trophies than Liverpool, albeit not similar Premier League or Champions League successes, and one more than Arsenal.<\/p>\n
“I think obviously [fans] want to get back to being stable as a top club, but even being there, winning the FA Cup and the Carabao in the last two seasons is something that any other club would be proud of to have done,” Eriksen said. “Then there is also the size and the image and the feeling at United\u2014it\u2019s like it\u2019s not good enough. I think hopefully that will change. Even the Carabao is a small thing, but at that moment it is a big thing.” <\/p>\n
His comments underline the tension between a club\u2019s global profile and the expectations placed on players by supporters influenced by media voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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