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Allardyce questions Lingard place at Man Utd

Former England manager Sam Allardyce believes Jesse Lingard needs to do more to warrant his place at Manchester United.

Allardyce doesn't believe Lingard deserves his place in his team.

"From a personal point of view and a manager's point of view, the warning signs would have been bought up by now," Allardyce told talkSPORT.

“The player would have been called in and I would have said to him, 'you haven't got a lot of time to put this right before your place is taken by somebody else'.

“As a manager you have to be ruthless, you have to make these decisions and you have to try to explain to a player in the best way you can.

“At Manchester United Lingard has got to be an eight-to-ten goal a season man in his position, and maybe six or eight assists as well I would think."

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