Neville claims that Weghorst has ‘brought more profit’ to Man Utd than Ronaldo

Gary Neville insists Wout Weghorst has “brought more profit” to Man Utd than Cristiano Ronaldo despite not being “good enough”.

Ronaldo left at the end of November after he and Man Utd decided to terminate his contract following .

The Red Devils managed without a centre-forward until the end of January when they brought in Weghorst on a loan until the end of the season from Championship leaders Burnley.

Erik ten Hag was attempting to take some of the goalscoring burden away from Marcus Rashford – who has scored 27 goals in all competitions – but Weghorst has only scored two goals since arriving and none in the Premier League.

at Man Utd but Neville admits that the Red Devils have been better with Weghorst than with Ronaldo.

Neville said on Sky Sports: “Since Sunday that seems to have been a moment, he has played basically every moment since coming in.

“I called him a placeholder because United didn’t invest in a striker United would want.

“This experiment has to stop, Weghorst has to come out, it can no longer go on, the reason he continues to play and why Ronaldo is no longer at the club, you see his 19 starts against Ronaldo’s 19 starts.

“Weghorst has 12 wins, four draws, three defeats, he has only scored two goals but the team has scored 37 goals, with Ronaldo it was 19 starts, they won three less games, drawn three, lost four more with him in the team, he scored 11 but the team itself only scored 23, they are massive differences.

“It is the strangeness of football is having a player who isn’t good enough to be a Manchester United forward but has brought more profit to the team. I believe he (Ronaldo) is the greatest player of all time.”

Neville added: “I think ultimately the reason he left Ronaldo out was because of the stats, I think it is clear Weghorst isn’t fit to lace Ronaldo’s boots but those are stark stats playing in same period with same team-mates, he was really poor on Sunday, he shouldn’t be there, but the reason he is there is because of those stats.”

Jamie Carragher asked Neville: “So is he better for United than Ronaldo?”

To which Neville refused to give a definitive answer, the Man Utd legend continued: “I don’t think either of them at this moment in time should play for Man United. It is more important who Ten Hag picks.

“I don’t know who I would pick, you would move it game to game. If I was playing at Old Trafford I’d play Ronaldo, away from home probably Weghorst.”