Manchester United sacked Michael Carrick on Thursday morning following a troubling start to the new Premier League season, with Mauricio Pochettino eyed as a potential successor

Gary Neville has labelled Manchester United's handling of Michael Carrick's sacking as "disgusting" and highlighted how it "reflects badly" on the club's leadership. United made the decision to part ways with the 45-year-old on Thursday morning following a dreadful start to the season.

At the time of writing, United sit 18th in the Premier League with just one win from their opening 10 mates - their worst start to a campaign in four decades. As a result, the board's patience wore thin with Carrick, making the executive decision to make changes to their coaching structure as a result.

It comes after Sir Jim Ratcliffe attended a senior Ineos staff meeting in Monaco, where Carrick's future is thought to have been discussed alongside Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada. The head coach, meanwhile, took team training at Carrington while waiting to learn his fate.

The club are also said to have reached an agreement in principle to bring in US national team manager, Mauricio Pochettino, on Wednesday, despite Carrick still being at the club at the time. That approach behind-the-scenes ultimately has not sat well with Neville, who has now unleashed a scathing critique of the club he became a legend with as a player.

Speaking with Sky Sports, the player-turned-pundit said: "I think after the Bournemouth game I said at the time that Manchester United effectively watched Michael Carrick resign on the pitch at the end of the game with that lap around, that wave goodbye. I think he was expecting it to come at that point and they were indecisive.

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"They obviously felt that they might be able to get to the international break and there could be some sort of pick-up in results, but it's been a difficult two weeks. Indecision, lack of authority, just basically really poor leadership.

"In the last 24-48 hours it's been spectacularly bad to be in Monaco as an executive and an owner whilst your manager, who's a club legend, is taking training on the pitch and simultaneously approaching the US Soccer Federation to approach Mauricio Pochettino.

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"It's just quite simply disgusting. That falls well below the standard of what you would expect in any other business, in any other industry.

"It would be constructive dismissal and you'd be getting sued. The optics of being in Monaco whilst the team, the staff, the people who are running the club on a day-to-day basis are in Manchester, it's just not good and it reflects badly on the leadership. I don't think anybody comes out of this well at all."

Pochettino is not expected to take up tenure at Old Trafford until next week, given he is currently in the middle of training for a CONCACAF Nations League double header with Haiti in the quarter finals of the competition.

An initial meeting between the two sides takes place in Miami on Saturday, November 14, before they meet once more in Cincinnati on Wednesday, November 18, in a second-leg tie.