Christian Eriksen slammed for what he has done after leaving Man Utd

Former Manchester United ace Christian Eriksen has been slammed for spending his time as a free agent with Malmo. Ex-Denmark international and Real Madrid midfielder Thomas Gravesen has taken aim at Eriksen and questioned his ambitions.

The 33-year-old left Old Trafford at the end of the season after his contract expired. And having yet to find a club, Eriksen has been keeping up his fitness by training with Swedish side Malmo.

The ex-Spurs star has yet to find a new team despite being able to engage with prospective clubs since the beginning of the year. Eriksen was not selected for Denmark's World Cup qualifiers against Scotland and Greece, after scoring in June friendlies against Northern Ireland and Lithuania. The playmaker is said to have turned down the chance of joining Wrexham, while reports suggested that Burnley were also interested in adding Eriksenamid competition from across Europe. The transfer window is shut, but as a free agent Eriksen can still find a new club.

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And Gravesen is aghast at the preparations that Eriksen is currently undertaking. Eriksen is training with Malmo, but perhaps has little chance of a deal with the club having already been required to submit their Europa League squad.

"It is incomprehensible to me that he chooses Malmo," Gravesen said in a recent interview with Fotboll Skanalen. "It is not a club that he can go to because he cannot sign a contract with them and we have some clubs in Denmark that are much, much better than Malmo.

"This looks like a friendly thing, where Christian Eriksen is over and having fun with some friends. Where is the ambition to play football?

"We talk about him being without a club for three months, but he has been without a club since January because he has been able to sign a contract with a new club ever since. He has been dragging his feet on it for a long time.

"If he wants to play for the national team, what signal does this send? What signal does going up and having fun with friends in Malmo send?

"I don’t understand it. It seems frivolous in some ways. If he had ambitions, he would have gone to a higher-level club. For me, it is not ambitious enough to go to Malmo and have fun. Who sees him there?"

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