Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager

Would you allow ETH to manage the cup final before parting ways?

  • Yes

    Votes: 564 54.0%
  • No, get an interim now

    Votes: 481 46.0%

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Fergie 7ime

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I was just about to start a thread about my concerns that ETH doesn't speak very good english but I foolishly did a little research and his english is great. Why have people been saying that he would need to learn english. That was literally my biggest concern about him and it turns out I was completely wrong.

Now my biggest concern is the club/players not backing him. Business as usual. :D
In which universe is ETH's english 'very good'? Have you seriously ever hear him speak the language? It's absolutely comical and even worse than Van Gaal's. We're hearing stories about the board being blown away by his vision of getting this pile of shit back to where it belongs, but the only thing I'm wondering about is: how the feck did he get it across?
 

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Most of the problematic personalities will be gone by the season end though. Lingard, Pogba, Martial, will be out the door. Possibly Rashford too.
Rashford leaving feels made up. We aren't that proactive. In fact If i could guess I'd say the real battle would be keeping the club from doubling his wages in the summer. Pogba and Martial however likely go but many of the complaints came when they were away from the club, some of the players leaving don't bother me because we already know where we stand with them, they aren't good enough.
 

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I was just about to start a thread about my concerns that ETH doesn't speak very good english but I foolishly did a little research and his english is great. Why have people been saying that he would need to learn english. That was literally my biggest concern about him and it turns out I was completely wrong.

Now my biggest concern is the club/players not backing him. Business as usual. :D
SAF didn't speak English and that turned out allright for us.
 

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When I'm typing his name but leaving out his first name, should I be typing 'ten Hag' or 'Ten Hag'?

Or should it even just be 'Hag'?
 

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Hasn't Klopp been the media darling for years by acting like an overexcited puppy in media interviews and on the touchline?

I say this as someone who, despite the rivallry, has grown to rather like Klopp these days.
 

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When I'm typing his name but leaving out his first name, should I be typing 'ten Hag' or 'Ten Hag'?

Or should it even just be 'Hag'?
Ten Hag.

The 'Ten' is like 'Van de', or 'Van'. So you don't remove it. You wouldn't say Persie when talking about RvP either.
 

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When I'm typing his name but leaving out his first name, should I be typing 'ten Hag' or 'Ten Hag'?

Or should it even just be 'Hag'?
I've learned on here once, from @Cheimoon I think or some other Dutch poster, that if you type the last name alone without the first name, you indeed capitalize it, "Ten Hag". With the first name it's Erik ten Hag.
 

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I've learned on here once, from @Cheimoon I think or some other Dutch poster, that if you type the last name alone without the first name, you indeed capitalize it, "Ten Hag". With the first name it's Erik ten Hag.
Yep, correct. You would also write Edwin van der Sar or otherwise Van der Sar.
 

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If you are bored, put this puzzle together for your own fun :)
This ''leak'' has not come from Ten Hag, this is club that put that out there right after Ralf said last night that we need already 2 modern strikers, so 3 new players is just not enough. Everytime Ralf said that we need more than 3 players. Club has put their spin out there, Erik will do evolution rather than revolution. Glazers dont want to spend money. This summer will be all about 100 m net spend again if we are lucky. Club will totally destroy Ten Hag's reputation in 2 years
 

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This ''leak'' has not come from Ten Hag, this is club that put that out there right after Ralf said last night that we need already 2 modern strikers, so 3 new players is just not enough. Everytime Ralf said that we need more than 3 players. Club has put their spin out there, Erik will do evolution rather than revolution. Glazers dont want to spend money. This summer will be all about 100 m net spend again if we are lucky. Club will totally destroy Ten Hag's reputation in 2 years
To be fair, telling the whole world you need to buy 6/7 new players leading up to the transfer window is not very smart
 

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This ''leak'' has not come from Ten Hag, this is club that put that out there right after Ralf said last night that we need already 2 modern strikers, so 3 new players is just not enough. Everytime Ralf said that we need more than 3 players. Club has put their spin out there, Erik will do evolution rather than revolution. Glazers dont want to spend money. This summer will be all about 100 m net spend again if we are lucky. Club will totally destroy Ten Hag's reputation in 2 years
Think history disagrees with you. We always spend a decent amount when we miss out on CL. With the amount of players leaving and wages being freed up, I think we’ll end up spending a decent amount actually.
 

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This ''leak'' has not come from Ten Hag, this is club that put that out there right after Ralf said last night that we need already 2 modern strikers, so 3 new players is just not enough. Everytime Ralf said that we need more than 3 players. Club has put their spin out there, Erik will do evolution rather than revolution. Glazers dont want to spend money. This summer will be all about 100 m net spend again if we are lucky. Club will totally destroy Ten Hag's reputation in 2 years
This doesn't mean we're only going to sign 3 players, it says at least 3, just that there's players at the club he rates. That evolution/revolution article was ESPN nonsense. Let's just see what happens this summer before we start crying about it.
 
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Good point I completely forgot about Donny.
Think we should all forget about him to be fair, I know he and ten Hag have history but he's not even managed to make an impact for relegation-threatened Everton. I don't think he's got a future at United, let alone one of the core members we build our team around.
 

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This ''leak'' has not come from Ten Hag, this is club that put that out there right after Ralf said last night that we need already 2 modern strikers, so 3 new players is just not enough. Everytime Ralf said that we need more than 3 players. Club has put their spin out there, Erik will do evolution rather than revolution. Glazers dont want to spend money. This summer will be all about 100 m net spend again if we are lucky. Club will totally destroy Ten Hag's reputation in 2 years
Why do you care about Ten Hag's reputation? I think it's realistic to expect ~150Mish to spend and I'm sure Ten Hag will get plenty of control over how it's spent. More than that is impossible, we're not an oil club.

That only gets you 2-3 players, assuming we don't splurge something like 80M on Rice.

Unfortunately, the rumor mill so far seems to suggest we've prioritized striker and CB (and probably DM because it's such a big gaping hole), so that means inadequate signings at RB, RW, CM.