Alan Shearer disagrees with Micah Richards and Gary Lineker over Manchester United stars who could play for rivals' top six

Alan Shearer does not believe that many Manchester United players can make it into the top six rivals.

And he was happy to criticize Micah Richards and Gary Lineker.

United lost their third match of the Premier League season on Sunday when they were well defeated 3-0 at home to Tottenham.

They sit 12th with just seven points from six games, but talkSPORT understands Erik ten Hag is ready to stay as boss for at least the next two games.

Despite another summer of big transfer spending, United look well below the standards required to challenge for a top-four finish.

Their traditional top-six rivals Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Spurs have fared better so far this season.

As a result, the Premier League's all-time leading goalscorer Shearer He asked if anyone in United's lineup on Sunday would play for their rivals.

“Let me ask you this: who from that XI would make it into one of the 'best six' in the Premier League?” he questioned about The rest is football podcast.

“(Kobbie) Mainoo comes in, definitely top six,” he said. Richards and Lineker And he added: “I think Fernandes too, for sure.”

“(Bruno) Fernandes when he's singing,” the first said before the second mentioned: “(Marcus) Rashford when he's at his best.”

“I would also choose (Lisandro) Martínez,” Richards added. “He's obviously been inconsistent with injuries and all that sort of stuff, and that would be Alan, if I'm totally honest.”

However, Shearer appeared to disagree with his selections, replying: “By the way, I think you're being generous.”

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With four players chosen, seven of United's XI in their loss to Spurs would miss out: Andre Onana, Noussair Mazraoui, Matthijs de Ligt, Diogo Dalot, Manuel Ugarte, Alejandro Garnacho and Joshua Zirkzee.

Ten Hag's team have a goal difference of minus three and have scored just five goals in their first six Premier League games.

For comparison, that's just a fifth of the total of the league's top scorers, Chelsea, with 15, followed by City with 14 and then Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs with 12.

United also have the worst defense of all the 'top six', having conceded eight goals.

United fell 1-0 after just three minutes when Brennan Johnson capitalized on Micky van de Ven's dazzling run.

Fernandes was sent off for his challenge on James Maddison before the break, and Dejan Kulusevski scored for Spurs' second moments of the second half.

Dominic Solanke completed the scoring with a close-range shot to further aggravate United's start to the season.

The respective Europa League and Premier League trips to Porto and Aston Villa provide a big test for them before the October international break.

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