Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand has slammed manager Louis van Gaal for turning his former club into a boring team.
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The defender, who is a TV pundit and journalist nowadays, believes United are far behind Manchester City and Chelsea.
"Right now, I don't see a huge improvement from last season," he told the London Evening Standard.
"We need time this season to really re-evaluate where they are, but, at the moment, I don't see them being title challengers at all.
"They are very far behind Manchester City and they were a huge amount of points behind Chelsea last year, and they are there or thereabouts with Arsenal."
Ferdinand was particularly critical of Van Gaal's boring and possession-based style, which Red Devils' supporters are not used to.
"What is different between the philosophy of Manchester United under Van Gaal and Manchester United under Ferguson? Everything," he added.
"In terms of players, the personnel are completely different, and the way they play. You associate Manchester United with pace and power, explosive fantasy in the final third, but that's not the way it is now.
"Manchester United fans are having to re-educate themselves on what they're going to see. You're not going to see what you saw for the last 25 years.
"It will be a completely different type of football, not football I enjoy watching as much and probably most United fans are like that.
"It's methodical and really slow going side to side, whereas before it was 'bang, go'. It's getting the ball through the team not very quickly, keeping the ball from side to side and waiting for an opening and the time to come for a glaring opportunity to go forward."
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