"Nerves" are, I would have thought, "in Luke himself" and a fundamental aspect of one's disposition.
If he is disposed to anxiety and crises of confidence, then the likes of Mourinho and van Gaal and the Man U milieu in general will have been experienced as non-nurturing, almost frankly hostile.
Poor bugger made a "good" but wrong choice of club.
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