Ajax final game is 15/5, ours is 22/5. Will he manage our last game?
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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I read hes coming straight after thevseason ends in holland and spending 3-4 weeks working at utd, then 2week hol then back to work fully. Now thats a great start by any remit.
Lazy bastard. Just finish the Mickey Mouse league already
I'm looking forward to pre season though. Will be nice to see something a bit different. No one said it was natural for anything, you’re just making shit up so you can argue with yourself about things people haven’t said or things you think people are thinking, Mystic Meg.We’ll see an immediate improvement when Ten Hag gets here because the players know they have to perform, I’m not worried about that. I’m worried about what happens when they decide (again) that they don’t think he’s good enough to win things, or they think he’s too mean to them and won’t take the fall when they want to feck off to Dubai or not train for ‘personal reasons’
Who do you think wanted Fellaini? Our first post Fergie signing.
That one was 100% moyes without a doubt. But you could argue that’s because they failed to sign who he actually wanted, didn’t he want like Thiago but the club failed so he panicked and just rushed into a signing in the last minutes of deadline day.
Nonsense. The man has been very successful on restructuring football clubs. Something we could desperately use.
He's out of his depth managing us though, as predicted.
The minute that starts happening then ten Hag will need to be ruthless and show them the doors… they won’t all be like that, it’s normally like a group of them but 1 player starts it of and then others follow them. At the minute the players are saying everyone is excited about him joining and there looking forward to playing exciting football.
We’ll see an immediate improvement when Ten Hag gets here because the players know they have to perform, I’m not worried about that. I’m worried about what happens when they decide (again) that they don’t think he’s good enough to win things, or they think he’s too mean to them and won’t take the fall when they want to feck off to Dubai or not train for ‘personal reasons’
FFS
our first two signings post-Fergie were Fellaini and Mata, which is absolute mental when you think about it
Fellaini the massive lump (albeit quite an effective one), and Mata the highly technical Spaniard suited to a possession game..
I mean what the feck were they thinking?
Maybe I don't know. Maybe he wanted to sign both.
But then maybe Fellaini shouldn't be the next step if you don't get Thiago.
Main point is that the post Fergie managers absolutely have been given players they wanted. Some of them are very obvious.
Moyes and Fellaini. LvG with Depay, Di Maria and Blind. Mourinho with Matic and I'd say Pogba.
They are just the very obvious one's, I'm guessing they also wanted a bunch of the others signed. I remember Jose praising the club for getting Sanchez.
The same will happen for ETH. I like the idea of the manager getting final say. We just need a manager who is crystal clear on what type of player he wants and then rigidly sticks to it.
The post Fergie managers have been all over the place in terms of types of players signed.
Yeah I've said this before.
If anything sums up our decision making it's those two being the first signings.
You couldn't find two players more unsuited to playing with each other. Should never be in the same team.
And that's carried on since. Signing Lukaku when we've wide players who don't want to cross a ball etc.
Every manager does this from time to time. Fergie and Berbatov. Pep and Mendy. Players who just don't fit that managers typical blueprint.
But we've become experts at it. It's almost like we've purposely tried to jam together players who don't suit playing together.
So ETH has to sort that out first and foremost. Which tbf is what Ralf keeps saying.
Pick a style and recruit towards it.
After so much misery, I do find it staggering some still want to feel like there's no hope.
Can we possibly miss the Europa Conference? Would it be a blessing to give ETH just domestic games to worry about?
Not entirely sure you understand what you’ve been arguing.
We’ll see an immediate improvement when Ten Hag gets here because the players know they have to perform, I’m not worried about that. I’m worried about what happens when they decide (again) that they don’t think he’s good enough to win things, or they think he’s too mean to them and won’t take the fall when they want to feck off to Dubai or not train for ‘personal reasons’
I want to be in the EL, if we end up in the conference it helps no one, a total hindrance.
What? Fergie was the one that wanted Thiago, he tried to get him from Barcelonas academy years earlier and he had him lined up the summer he retired, Moyes didn’t agree on the club proceeding without him scouting him first, because he wanted to make sure he was the right player for him.
ETH will live or die ( metaphorically !) by the recruitment at the club. Getting rid of Woodward and his mini-me Judge has got to be a big boost though. The knee jerk signings , inflated contracts to 'preserve value' and the whole 'we can only work on one transfer at a time' small time nonsense is hopefully in the past. The biggest hole in the side is midfield and I think we should concentrate on up to 3 new signings there this summer to at least be competitive there. Looking forward to the summer window to be honest with my muppet T shirt.
Perfect opportunity to play young lads and see how they do, Leicester couldn't make the final in it,
I think that’s what we’re all hoping for mate. We need someone to be ruthless and clear out these absolute jokers. My only reservation is that previous managers have tried to do the same and been fired after boardroom decisions were made to keep certain players like Martial over the manager.
I really hope things improve but the proof will be in the pudding around January I reckon. It’s all dependant on how many bodies we clear this summer and how many we bring in.
Gaslighting 101
Just play the reserves and fringe players. Good opportunity to rest players like Ronaldo and focus on the league mostly
Who’s this bloke?
He makes it seems like joining United is stepping into World War III. Well guess what? we are probably the most generous & rich club in the world, handing out contracts and spending money like Santa during Xmas. Not holding anyone that were given those money accountable and never pressured anyone to become better. We just vibin. That is the modern ManUnited. Cant see your grandkids if you join United? I doubt it. Mike Phelan sees whoever he wants anytime he wants, Fletcher hangs out with the boys during training despite being a director because he wants to and has to (in his mind anyway), Lingard leaks info everywhere and talks shit about the club and yet the club will always respect him - he can take days off whenever he wants. Same goes for Rashford and Pogba.
Whats so scary about it?
The pressure and the intensity of that can be off putting for certain individuals.
Think the fans end up the biggest problem, we have to ignore the s**t stirring media for a start. There will be a lot of ups and down and fans have to realise it. This is going to take time and the club have to specify this to the media.
ETH worked under him a few times earlier in his career, at Twente for example before McClaren
Let’s be realistic instead of setting him up to fail with unrealistic experience expectations.
his first job is get rid of a lot of players and somehow fashion a “team” together to follow instructions and the systems coached. Our first expectation should be to see proper progress, not just in terms of results but in terms of what we see on the pitch, effort, working for the collective purpose.
THEN if we’re seeing that we can turn our hopes to progress in competitions. I’m certainly not going to deem him a failure or expect too much from first season which is ground zero for me. There’s nothing left of the club fergie built. It’s a huge job
He was an utter failure in Russia and their fans couldn’t have been happier to be rid of him.
When you're DoF at Lokomotiv Moscow, with Ralf's body of work, you're practically retired.
He's going to regret joining us. Career suicide of sorts. Totally understand why he took it.Till the snakes head has been removed, we are still going to be in an endless cycle of mediocrity. Those motherfkrs are still going to take their dividends and use the club as an ATM. Utterly shameless owners. Literally the worst we could have bar the obvious others.
Dodgy fax machine again?
So you're just going to ignore everything he's done previously at Leipzig and Hoffenheim.
The Red Bull clubs were financially doped to the eyeballs, they were far far richer than any of the clubs they competed against in the lower divisions. If Ralf really is some sort of club building extraordinaire how did he end up in Russia?
You’re just making shit up he was only there 4 months before he joined us
Yeah, I’m definitely making shit up. Took over a team that finished 3rd, ripped everything up and got out of there as fast as he could.
https://www.goal.com/en-gb/amp/news...ow-fraud-russian-football/blt909ec78f3d342918
I'd love to know which foaming at the mouth, Ole in returnee you are.