Tony Cascarino has delivered a stinging criticism of Manchester United likening them to the 1990's Liverpool side after their defeat to Middlesbrough.
Anthony Elanga missed the decisive penalty in Friday's shootout to send the Championship side in the fifth round of the FA Cup, likely extending United's trophy drought to five years.
"There are so many things you have to get right and challenges for a football club to have success, and Manchester United feel like they’ve been sleepwalking for a long time," Cascarino told talkSPORT.
"It’s not just on the playing side, it’s all different aspects of the football club you’ve got to get spot on.
"Liverpool went through a similar period in the 90s and going into the 2000s, they were years without regularly winning things.
"They were always battling. They won the Champions League with Rafa Benitez and they won other trophies with other managers, Gerard Houllier won a few.
"But they were not the Liverpool they are now – always challenging to win the league. Okay, they’re a tad short from where Man City are right now, but they are competing to win it.
"United don’t even look close to that, and sometimes it can take an eternity to get the right man in."
The former Chelsea forward continued: "Man United had a long time before Fergie, a time of stress and pain and changing the managers and a conveyor belt of players coming in and going out.
"Under Fergie, success for the football club was challenging to win titles, and they did – the Premier League and the Champions League – the top honour.
"But now it feels like success for Man United is just qualifying for the Champions League.
"If you go to Old Trafford now, it’s not the Manchester United of years gone by. I know people call me a dinosaur, but it’s so different.
"The game against Middlesbrough, it was a tin hat job from the very first minute. They did dominate in the early stages in the game, but they paid the ultimate price for that performance."
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