Well he did great work in Hoffenheim as well.
Thing is if you should never judge his club building skills on his coaching skills.
That would be like judging a striker on his goalkeeping skills. Vastly different jobs.
And I worry abit for Ten Hag now. He had Van Der Sar and Overmars in Ajax. Here he has Murtough and Fletcher which so far have shown nothing to suggest they have any clue.
Hoffenheim is not United. These are smaller clubs in Germany.
At United, everything you do is scrutinized. This is a man that stopped managing Schalke when he was failing in 2011 because of fatigue. I don't think he actually had the capacity to do the job despite how smart he sounded when talking about it. I don't think he was prepared for the task and the comments and complaints he keeps providing the press speak to that.
You don't think Ancelotti has had his problems with the Madrid dressing room this season or in the past. Do you think Zidane didn't have to deal with issues within his dressing room. Managers like Luis Enrique and Valverde constantly had to deal with scrutiny both from the press and the dressing room at any sign of a bad performance. You think Bayern's established and cocky locker room with characters like Neuer, Muller, Lewandowski and young ones like Sane aren't difficult to deal with. Even in England, because we don't hear leaks doesn't mean there aren't issues within City and Liverpool's dressing rooms either. That's the nature of being at a big club. Managing those issues is part of the job. Coming out to the press and complaining at every term simply showed how ill suited he was for it. At least with Mourinho, you could always argue that there was an idea behind it. He finished 6th in his first season here ( Mourinho) yet always ensured that he defended the players and didn't give much negativity about the club to the press despite what he might have been thinking. It's only when he had the issues with Pogba in his third season that things started falling apart.
What exactly should Murtough have shown. He's not a manager. He got Varane, Ronaldo and Sancho into the team this summer. What did VDS and Overmars show before being in their roles? Also understand, Ajax are also smaller than United. Yes they are Holland's biggest team, but having national coverage is so much different that running the biggest, most supported team in world football. If you want to berate our leadership team next to Bayern, Madrid or Barca's that's fair. However, the task at a club like this is different to almost any other club
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