When Phil Neville arrived at Inter Miami back in 2021, he would have been hoping that it would be the start of a fairytale partnership with his former teammate and friend David Beckham.
However, fast forward a couple of years and the appointment now looks to have been misguided, with the former England defender's spell having turned into nothing short of a nightmare at the club owned by his former Manchester United colleague. Although the duo had shared years of success as players at Old Trafford, they were unable to recreate the magic of yesteryear, with Beckham having been left with seldom choice but to wield the axe after Neville's side fell to a fourth straight defeat in MLS on Wednesday.
In truth, the project as a whole seems to be at the teething stage, with the club still in its infancy having only been inducted into the league back in March of 2020. That said, the halting of action as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic within the same month would prove prescient of what the next three years would, ultimately, have in store, with tangible progress having been stop-start in the period since.
