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Manchester United legend Gary Neville has demanded that the club learn from the ill-fated reign of Jose Mourinho and ensure the club's philosophy is always the priority.Mourinho led the club to two trophies in two-and-a-half years at the club, but pursued a more pragmatic and often defensive philosophy on the pitch.Neville believes the club must permanently return to the ideas of attacking football and youth production that he believes are the absolute core of its identity.Speaking on his Sky Sports Gary Neville Podcast, Neville said: 'No one should ever be allowed to enter Manchester United's training ground or Old Trafford ever again to shape their own philosophy.That is done.'Manchester United's philosophy is so deep and so meaningful, it's like Barcelona's and it's like Ajax's.'At Manchester United you play fast, attacking football in an entertaining way.You bring young players through and give them belief.And you win.'To be honest with you, the third one sometimes goes in cycles.The winning actually comes as a result of doing the first two right.The third one doesn't always happen.Sometimes you can go years without winning trophies.You can go years without winning things and picking up titles.' The full-back, who played 602 games for the club over 19 seasons, conceded that he felt the managers brought in since Sir Alex Ferguson's departure would succeed.Yet Neville believes the likes of Louis van Gaal and Mourinho should not have been able to alter the club's philosophy and identity the way they did.'I supported David Moyes, I supported Louis van Gaal and I supported Jose Mourinho.I thought they would win at the football club and I said it at the time.I'm not sitting here backtracking, thinking Manchester United made a bad decision by appointing Jose Mourinho.'I thought this was perfect for the club because he cuts across everything and he does win.He did win to be fair to him.In the first season he won two trophies, but the league was what he was brought in to win.'I thought Louis van Gaal would win as well.The money that has been spent is incredible, but what I have found difficult over the last seven years is the breach of philosophy.Yes, I think young players have still played, but it seems that they've allowed managers to pull the club from pillar to post.'No one should ever be allowed to enter Manchester United Football Club ever again and adopt a different philosophy to the one the club has.'What Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has done in a month, irrespective of the how the club do this season, has shown Manchester United that.' Solskjaer has begun re-establishing the club's core identity, with the likes of Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard proving key beneficiaries.Rashofrd has scored in three consecutive games for the first time in his career, and is on the verge of making 10 successive starts also for the first time.Neville said: 'I like watching it, that's it.I want to go to the ground again.About six to eight weeks ago there was a game in midweek and I stayed at home and watched it on television.I didn't want to go and there were many fans like that.'We can't be in that position as Manchester United fans.We have to think there's a game on at Old Trafford and I want to go.That's how Manchester United fans will be thinking now because when you watch Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Paul Pogba running from box to box like they are, you're electrified.'There was one counter-attack in the first half at Wembley where they sprinted forward from one box to the other and I thought 'Wow! I'm watching red shirts run from box to box in three seconds, passing quickly' and that's what you want to see.' Neville went on to insist that winning was a by-product of adhering to other aspects of the club philosophy, and was not necessarily the sole priority.He admitted that the highly successful period under Ferguson may have coloured the perceptions of younger fans.He added: 'I don't expect to see winning football as a Manchester United fan every week.I don't expect them to win titles every year.There are a group of fans that grew up in the Sir Alex Ferguson years who have been spoiled.They will think we have to win titles every single year as a football club.'I grew up in the late Seventies and Eighties when Manchester United never won a title, so for 15 or 16 years of my life, Manchester United were always the pretenders.They were the side that always threatened, but never delivered.'So, it's not always about winning, but I was always enthralled by going to watch.What I've seen at times in the last five or six years is you can win, you can lose, and you can draw, but you can never be bored watching a football team 'There have been times when I think the fans have become bored by watching the club play and that's something you can never have.And that's for every club.Fans go to games, paying the money that they pay to get that release form a hard-wor
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