Michael Carrick made the decision to drop Bruno Fernandes after his comments last week

Former West Ham, Crystal Palace and Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew feels Michael Carrick 'cut his nose to spite his face' by dropping Bruno Fernandes for Manchester United's defeat to Bournemouth. The Portuguese playmaker hit out at Carrick's tactics following the dismal 4-1 defeat to Como in the Champions League and was an unused substitute for the defeat to the Cherries.

However, Pardew felt Carrick should have still played Fernandes. Speaking to TalkSPORT, Pardew said: "I'm thinking I would have played him, personally. There is this other side of the football coin where you go, you don't cut off your nose to spite your face.

"You could still be strong by playing him. You say, ‘well, yes, I heard what he said. In my opinion, he's wrong and I'm still not finished.’

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"There might be some discipline coming his way on the back of a win, if you know what I mean. So you could turn it around a little bit and still win as the manager, but I don't know what's gone on on the training ground.

"Has Fernandes disrespected Michael on the bus, on the training ground from that evening to this game? Was there an incident? Was he sort of going, ‘the manager isn’t good enough’ in the background and the staff have told him?

"All those things I'm not privy to, and unless I was, I can't make that decision. I can only give you the foresight of what happens."

Pardew now feels the decision to drop Fernandes will only cause him more problems. The former Newcastle boss said: "I can think of examples.

"Joey Barton, when I first went to Newcastle, my first day, he said to me, ‘you're not good enough to be manager here,’ but I played him in the game that came up next against Liverpool and we won.

"Then we went on from there and we were fine. We worked together, he didn't need to apologise. Joey isn’t the type to apologise.

"So that's an example where I could have just left Joey out. He's not with me, I'll leave him out. So you can use it, but you have to understand where you were.

"I watched Joey that week in training. He was on it, he was up for it. I could see that. So I knew that actually his playing side of it, he was going to give us something.

"And I think that the whole Fernandes one now is in leaving him out and losing the game now becomes even more of an issue."