OPINION
Phil Jones’ sixth Manchester United appearance of the season could not really have gone any worse. The team lost 2-1 at Valencia, he scored a calamitous own goal and was also at fault for the other one conceded by the visitors when Carlos Soler pounced on his headed clearance to strike home a fizzing low finish amid slack marking. Now 26 and in his eighth season at the club he joined as a teenager for a fee of nearly £20million that looked pricey at the time and now looks ludicrous, it is safe to say Jones will never live up to the huge expectation foisted upon him soon after his arrival, when Sir Alex Ferguson hailed him as a potential great. Maybe Fergie had been on the red wine when he made that comment. Jones looked punch-drunk in Spain last night as he showed in a centre-back partnership with Eric Bailly why he is very much a second-string player these days. It’s fair to say a broad section of United fans were fuming at his performance.
This Is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
Phil Jones is stealing a living at our club #MUFC
— Crispin (@dtrouble) December 12, 2018
Phil Jones is an absolute fraud. He should never play for United again – injury prone, unpredictable, no sense of positioning, lack of pace and a complete lack of ability to be a top centre-half. Shocking. Pogba also proved how useless and lazy he is tonight – get both out! https://t.co/G2cfOohyqu
— Daf Jones (@dafjonesmusic) December 13, 2018
He’s stolen a lad’s career. Somewhere there’s a lad who could have put in shifts whereby you’d accept them. It’s a disgrace every time he pulls on the shirt. And for England.
— Rob Jeffries (@RobJeffries) December 12, 2018
Phil Jones is a clown how he’s still playing for the club I don’t know cost us the cup final and cost us the game tonight he’s a liability
— Phil Wingate ????? (@Phizza_Monster) December 12, 2018
He’s a fraud, I had to change channel I can’t be asked to watch frauds such as Phil Jones https://t.co/CscCiFwRr7
— Rick Sanchez (@RickSanchezDJ) December 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/watson_mufc/status/1072970183013224454
Phil Jones is the worst ever player who plays consistently to wear a united shirt and it’s not even close. He has been at the club longer than ronaldo and cantona were.?
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— Harrison (@harrison_j01) December 12, 2018
I'm saying it for the umpteenth time that Phil jones is the worst English ratbag ever to pull on a Manchester united shirt..
— ? (@Official_Oreva) December 12, 2018
Phil Jones has to be the worst player ever to wear a United shirt
— Padiman (@freshoutabobi) December 12, 2018
https://twitter.com/ksekoni_/status/1072984042683990016