Nani says Ferguson would have punished United’s current indiscipline

Goal reports former Manchester United winger Nani said Sir Alex Ferguson would have been quick to punish the kind of indiscipline the Old Trafford squad are facing. Nani, who represented the club between 2007 and 2015 and won 12 trophies including four league titles, recalled being dropped for a number of games after Ferguson realised he was not behaving correctly "behind the scenes." In quotes carried by the Daily Mail, when asked if United’s current crop of players would get away with their behaviour in Ferguson’s era, the 39-year-old said: "No way, not a chance.

If someone needed it, he would put a player to one side for a game, and usually they would learn straight away. If you were in trouble for any kind of bad behaviour, you would only play again when you changed. You need to accept the rules and then you need to follow the rules. For us in that time, that was the key.

Nobody was bigger than the club. No player, not Ronaldo, not Rooney, not Giggs, nobody. If you’re behaviour wasn’t good enough, you were punished." Nani added that the treatment happened to him early on: "It actually happened to me during one of my first weeks. I played one fantastic game and then I went several weeks without playing.

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