Evra insisted that the former Middlesbrough manager's body of work deserves more credit than it is receiving from the punditry circle. He urged the squad and the fanbase to ignore the "noise" generated by those who once shared the dressing room with the current manager, who guided them to a 2-0 win over Manchester City in his first game in charge, followed by a 3-2 victory at Arsenal.
The former left-back saved his sharpest barbs for Neville, referencing the pundit's disastrous spell at Valencia, where he managed just 10 wins from 28 matches in charge. "I said to Neville: 'It's easy to talk on TV. When you were at Valencia, they asked you for paella, and you gave them fish and chips'," he added. "After three months, they said goodbye. So for them to possibly kill the career of a manager, it's a little bit too much."