Manchester United hero Rio Ferdinand blames the club and management for the failures of Ravel Morrison, now of Sheffield United.

A string of off-field issues hindered his progress and the midfielder left Old Trafford in 2012 without making a league appearance, joining West Ham where he also failed to make the grade.

"I used to tell him to come to my house but Sir Alex wanted me to step away from doing stuff with Ravel because he felt the club could deal with the situation," Ferdinand told the Beautiful Game Podcast.

"But this goes back to my earlier point about Gavin [Rose, Dulwich Hamlet manager]. If Gavin was at Manchester United back then, then I don't think Ravel slips through the net, I think Ravel becomes a £100m player.

"But there wasn't someone like that at United then and even now I don't see people like that at clubs. People from the estates, from the streets with similar backgrounds to these players so they can talk to them.

"I know Ravel was talking to someone [allocated by the club] that was told to look after him, walking this guy from through the park and telling him what he wanted to hear and then going and doing what he wanted to do. because he could get away with it.

"But Gavin is the type of person that would see through it and pull him up straight away to tell him 'listen, calm yourself down this is how you need to move' and that's it.

"It's a tricky situation sometimes these kids home lives are different from what you know. Yeah we're all from an estate but once you close doors you don't know what happens behind there so you need experience to get the best out of someone."