Leeds United legend Johnny Giles says Jose Mourinho has Manchester United's players going backwards.

He wrote for Irish Independent: "It's all about progress. No football club can flourish without it and Jose Mourinho is failing in that fundamental pursuit.

"That's why he is blaming everybody else. He is not doing his job well.

"His latest rant points to nothing else. In it, he lashed players, individually and collectively and by doing so, damned himself. It's his job to improve them and quite clearly, they are moving in the opposite direction.

"Each point he made in his attack on Luke Shaw and other unnamed players who he now believes do not have the “personality" to play for Manchester United, has a ready made answer and one which Mourinho cannot deny.

"Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard and the unfortunate Luke Shaw seem to be going backwards.

"I don't know these lads so I don't know whether they have the 'personality' to handle big games at a big club like Manchester United but I know what I see on a football pitch and Mourinho's decision to chop and change for the Champions League clash with Sevilla after beating Liverpool at Old Trafford had nothing to do with the players.

"That was his call and it was the wrong decision."