Barnet head coach Edgar Davids has invited Everton captain Phil Neville to Bees’ training ground after the former Manchester United midfielder commented on club’s facilities.

In an interview with the Liverpool Echo, Neville said: "I think it'd be good for your experience to coach and manage down there, to go through the types of things that Edgar Davids is going through at the moment (at Barnet) because he's been used to the best things in life and now he's got to really coach.

"He won't have 20 balls, he'll probably have five or six, he won't have many cones, they'll be training on a park pitch where there's maybe dogs running across the training pitch and this is where he'll have to learn his trade again."

Barnet have heavily invested in The Hive Football Centre and Davids, who has won 74 caps for the Netherlands, encouraged Neville to visit the facility in Edgware.

The Dutchman told Barnet’s website: “I invited him down for the day on Twitter. It is just a little bit of banter.

Everybody knows we have a great complex here at The Hive and I am sure his intentions were good.

“I hope he can make the trip down to North London to see how we are getting on and what we have here.

“The Hive is definitely one of the best training complexes I have played at. It is very highly regarded and so is the academy we have here. Both are a very high level.”