Former Manchester United striker Louis Saha says it is unfair to blame the club's plight on Paul Pogba.

Saha thinks United's recruitment is the reason behind the club sitting in 12th on the Premier League table with nine points from eight games.

Saha told The Athletic: "Now, you look, and the excuse is, 'Pogba hasn't played.' It is crazy to put a club in this position. I'm sorry but you can't put the blame on [Marcus] Rashford, you can't put the blame on [Anthony] Martial, you can't put the blame on the newcomers.

"Who is big enough in that squad to be saying, 'This is falling down'? Apart from Pogba. It is unfair on him, unfair on the squad. It is right that I hear Gary Neville complain about the chemistry that has been built. You could put any manager in right now; I'm sorry, he will struggle.

"You can say, alright he should not have allowed [Romelu] Lukaku and [Alexis] Sanchez to leave but the damage was already done because those guys didn't want to stay. So it is better to actually clean up in some ways, let's say, with respect.

"But the actual power of the United history, the United set-up, has been fettered by three or four transfer windows. It was like a shotgun in two feet. They put themselves in that situation, not giving the platform to fight back."