Former Manchester United coach Phil Neville says David Moyes found a squad resistant to change last season.

Neville also says Moyes should've been more ruthless in the first transfer window.

"There was a resistance to change," he told the Daily Mail. "But look, Alex Ferguson was God. And had I still been a player I would have probably been the same. I'd have been saying 'this is what we do and this is how we've been successful'.

"If you asked the players about our training, I think they'd say they enjoyed it. But it was probably the resistance to change that was the big thing; someone else coming in and trying to do things a little bit differently, although only a little bit differently.

"At the same time it was also probably a team that had come to the end of its shelf life, so perhaps we should have been more ruthless with that team in terms of recruitment.

"But then you're taking over a team that has just won the league by 11 points, and you don't change that.

"Our first transfer window was probably the beginning of the end, in that we didn't bring in the freshness that we needed.

"From then onwards it was an uphill struggle. I don't think we ever got the team playing to the level David Moyes wanted them to play. We couldn't get the momentum you need to win trophies.

"The biggest disappointment was losing that League Cup game to Sunderland. If we had gone on to win a trophy, beating Manchester City, things could have been very different. That was the turning point. Everything seemed a struggle and a fight after that.

"I've thought long and hard about last season. Maybe we could have been more ruthless in the first transfer window. Maybe the gaffer needed to understand United quicker than he did. But that's hard. That's why he needed time. He should have been given more time."