Roy Keane reacts to Matic’s claims about Man Utd training culture

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Roy Keane has admitted that it turns his stomach to hear about Jadon Sancho and Paul Pogba being regularly late for Manchester United training.

This has been a turbulent few days for United, starting with the awful 1-0 defeat at Newcastle United.

Then we had reports about Erik ten Hag losing parts of the United dressing room, which resulted in certain journalists being banned.

The chaos has been quietened a little by the 2-1 win over Chelsea on Wednesday night but there have been more claims about the culture around the training ground.

Nemanja Matic sheds light on Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho

The source this time is former United midfielder Nemanja Matic, who is now playing in France with Rennes.

The Serbian was quoted earlier this week as saying that players were late for training at United ‘almost every day’.

Matic praised the professional attitude at Chelsea but highlighted that United players were regularly late for training at Carrington.

Paul Pogba and Jadon Sancho were named as two main culprits with Matic claiming that the fine system collected a staggering £75,000 in one season.

United fans probably aren’t too surprised after hearing those names but Roy Keane – unsurprisingly – isn’t happy.

Roy Keane comments on Manchester United culture

Keane is one of the absolute great leaders in United history and certainly wouldn’t stand for players being late for training.

Keane has now told Stick to Football that the latest claims aren’t a big surprise as the culture around Carrington has been spoken about for a long time.

The Irishman accepts that players can be late occasionally but feels that it just shouldn’t happen on a regular basis.

Keane added that hearing players turning up late so regularly turns his stomach, seemingly expecting much more from United players.

“We’ve heard it over the last few years, again we talk about the culture of the training ground,” said Keane. “Whatever about the money, but players just being blasé about it and being late, whatever about the fines and whatever they’re doing with the money, but this idea of lads being constantly late for training… it shouldn’t happen, stating the obvious.”

“A player can be late for training, obviously; you can be stuck in traffic or a car breaks down, but if that’s a regular occurrence, then that’s not good… it turns my stomach,” he added.

Pogba has gone and Sancho is now being exiled under Ten Hag, but United still need to bring a stronger culture around training in terms of attitude and application.

Ten Hag can’t afford to have his players turning up late and not taking training seriously, so we can only hope to hear less of these stories moving forward.