Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager

How many of you would be prepared to give ETH 1 more full season to prove himself?

  • Yes

    Votes: 376 26.5%
  • No

    Votes: 1,043 73.5%

  • Total voters
    1,419
  • Poll closed .

altodevil

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This is exactly the sort of cultue change we badly need. Gives a great excuse to move on from unseriables. We can but pray that the fans give him time and have some patience. We could be in the wilderness for a couple of years.

He should not be sacked for no UCL next season.
 

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Weird indeed, not like the team has been letting down the fans for 9 straight years and serving shit regularly on the pitch. How dare the fans don't like these players ?
Exactly this! Some really have their heads buried in sand.
 

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Yes it is, considering he spent hundreds of millions to improve on the guy before, who finished 2nd with better points and won sone cups.

Ole was an absolute car crash and set us back years. Semi finals mean feck all.
Can't believe people are still trying to paint Ole as anything but an unmitigated disaster. The worst manager the club has had since the 70s, and someone who it was painfully obvious was never good enough.

Division in the fanbase needs to stop now Ten Hag is here. I remember being told I'm not a "true mancunian red" because I wanted a better manager in instead of Ole. This kind of dialogue is self destructive. We've got the man we want, and he has a style and plan we can get behind. I'm excited to see us build with him.
 

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Can't believe people are still trying to paint Ole as anything but an unmitigated disaster. The worst manager the club has had since the 70s, and someone who it was painfully obvious was never good enough.

Division in the fanbase needs to stop now Ten Hag is here. I remember being told I'm not a "true mancunian red" because I wanted a better manager in instead of Ole. This kind of dialogue is self destructive. We've got the man we want, and he has a style and plan we can get behind. I'm excited to see us build with him.
Wrong.
 

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Yes it is, considering he spent hundreds of millions to improve on the guy before, who finished 2nd with better points and won sone cups.

Ole was an absolute car crash and set us back years. Semi finals mean feck all.
Don't agree, the Ronaldo signing screwed Ole. End of last season there was alot of positivity we were playing some good stuff the team was full of confidence.

It looked like there was hope, ole wanted to shift us into a more progressive 4-3-3 have us playing and pressing higher up the pitch, convinced cavani to stay another year so he had that hard working CF to help. The Bam suddenly the club drop Ronaldo on him a player compleatly unsuited to what Ole wanted to work towards and the circus and the ego that comes with him and the results were there for all to see.

I'm not saying Ole was some great manager but he certainly was knowhere near as bad as people like you are trying to make out, was it perfect? no of course not but it was the best iv seen us play post fergie, by far the best.
 

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Don't agree, the Ronaldo signing screwed Ole. End of last season there was alot of positivity we were playing some good stuff the team was full of confidence.

It looked like there was hope, ole wanted to shift us into a more progressive 4-3-3 have us playing and pressing higher up the pitch, convinced cavani to stay another year so he had that hard working CF to help. The Bam suddenly the club drop Ronaldo on him a player compleatly unsuited to what Ole wanted to work towards and the circus and the ego that comes with him and the results were there for all to see.

I'm not saying Ole was some great manager but he certainly was knowhere near as bad as people like you are trying to make out, was it perfect? no of course not but it was the best iv seen us play post fergie, by far the best.
Shows how crap we've been for 10 years. Didn't win anything and ultimately left the club at its lowest ebb in modern history. Anyway, this is the ETH thread, and one we should be positive about. That failed project is thankfully behind us all.
 

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Yes it is, considering he spent hundreds of millions to improve on the guy before, who finished 2nd with better points and won sone cups.

Ole was an absolute car crash and set us back years. Semi finals mean feck all.
Didn't the guy before spend hundreds of millions too?
 

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Is this finally it? A proper manager.

Im so excited but at the same time we've been burnt so many times before.

This time just feels different. Ten Hag just exudes an aura. Him taking training hands on is already beginning to show how much disapproval he has of some of the current lot.
 

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Don't agree, the Ronaldo signing screwed Ole. End of last season there was alot of positivity we were playing some good stuff the team was full of confidence.

It looked like there was hope, ole wanted to shift us into a more progressive 4-3-3 have us playing and pressing higher up the pitch, convinced cavani to stay another year so he had that hard working CF to help. The Bam suddenly the club drop Ronaldo on him a player compleatly unsuited to what Ole wanted to work towards and the circus and the ego that comes with him and the results were there for all to see.

I'm not saying Ole was some great manager but he certainly was knowhere near as bad as people like you are trying to make out, was it perfect? no of course not but it was the best iv seen us play post fergie, by far the best.
That didn’t happen at all. The season we ended up second we finished in awful form, with huge doubts about whether we were actually progressing under Ole. Smashed by Liverpool, beaten by Leicester, drew with Fulham and then that horrible EL final where Ole seemed completely out of his depth, not making any subs or tactical changes until it was far too late.
 

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The guy wanted all the new players in by the start of the tour. He's only got a (backup) LB in. More of McFred next season?
 

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Its still only words at this point and we have been burned by those before but can't say these little snippets aren't exciting, really can't wait for preseason, for the formation especially he will want to hit the ground running so it won't be experimentation. Just wish we also weren't so lazy in the transfer market.
 

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Don't agree, the Ronaldo signing screwed Ole. End of last season there was alot of positivity we were playing some good stuff the team was full of confidence.

It looked like there was hope, ole wanted to shift us into a more progressive 4-3-3 have us playing and pressing higher up the pitch, convinced cavani to stay another year so he had that hard working CF to help. The Bam suddenly the club drop Ronaldo on him a player compleatly unsuited to what Ole wanted to work towards and the circus and the ego that comes with him and the results were there for all to see.

I'm not saying Ole was some great manager but he certainly was knowhere near as bad as people like you are trying to make out, was it perfect? no of course not but it was the best iv seen us play post fergie, by far the best.
We were atrocious under him. The absolute worst. You're entitled to your opinion of course but Ole was wank for the majority of his tenure.
 

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If you still think he's worse than 2013 Moyes then there's nothing else to say really, you are titled to your 0.02
Correct. Ole spent hundreds more and with 3x more time ended up the same way. No actual coaching either, by the way, so the players regressed if anything.

My two cents.
 

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BMI would strike me as an odd measure to use in this context.
 

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Ronaldo will be a huge test for ETH and handling his ego along with how he incorporates him in the playing style....with that said, ronaldo wanting to leave has really made it even more difficult for him as there simply isn't very good many CF's out in the market right now that we could purchase and we are already woefully short of goal scoring talent

ETH has his work cut out for him with this current squad of players and our transfer window is not exactly setting the world on fire currently
 

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Why is Malacia constantly called a backup LB?
It was reported when we signed him that he was viewed as a back up and eventual successor to Luke Shaw. That said he’ll still get plenty of opportunities to play and with Shaw’s injury record he could find himself first choice before long.