Erik Ten Hag: Press Conference in Bangkok

[Infra-red]

Ten Hag has avoided getting drawn in to the English media's Ronaldo obsession.

On a side note, the English media really are tiresome. Ten questions so far, six of them have been the same question on Ronaldo worded in six different ways. Two questions asking whether he's unhappy at the lack of signings and only two questions related to the actual football.

 

[Real Name]

I bet he's great at poker.

 

[Real Name]

Stop with Ronaldo questions!!!!

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Bit of waste of time , Journalists only want to talk about Ronaldo.

If he had given them something worth printing, they would all then claim it as an exclusive.

 

[Fortitude]

Not sure what was the fuss about his accent or English. Maybe he sounds funny in Dutch, but in English, he's perfectly fine.

 

[Infra-red]

Jesus. More Ronaldo questions. Just move on, you boring hack twats.

 

[KiD MoYeS]

Pointless presser. Ronaldo not for sale and Maguire captain the only two points worth noting.

 

[Mickeza]

He’s the anti-Ragnick - gives nothing away. Laurie has also completely got the wrong end of the stick - he’s saying he hasn’t spoken to him since his family issue - not him wanting to leave - the impression I got was he hasn’t told him anything about wanting to leave.

 

[Real Name]

Not sure what was the fuss about his accent or English. Maybe he sounds funny in Dutch, but in English, he's perfectly fine.

Like how he says season.

 

[Dante]

The only things we learned were that Maguire would be captain, and that Ten Hag wants to bring in reinforcements for midfield and attack. Bit of a damp squib of a press conference to be honest.

 

[RonaldoVII]

Pointless presser. Ronaldo not for sale and Maguire captain the only two points worth noting.

And he wants new players in midfield

 

[Real Name]

The state of that studio.

Embarrassing for the club.

 

[Ayoba]

Why are you guys surprised? Ofcourse the presser was going to be all about Ronaldo!

 

[MancFanFromManc]

He's really good in his pressers. Havent seen him tripped up (or even close to yet). Top marks so far Eric!!

 

[Wayne's World]

fecking embarrassing this club. Any wonder we are going nowhere as a football club.

Get these shit owners out of the club

 

[RedPed]

I don't blame them pressing on Ronaldo. He's either staying or he isn't. He's either on leave for personal reasons or he's gone awol. Ten Hag's just admitted that the long chat he had was before Ronaldo went awol so that was a bit misleading.

Ronaldo is the biggest draw, so what do people expect?

 

[Fortitude]

Like how he says season.

The added h's are pretty generic for Dutch folk speaking English; there's certainly nothing weird or unique about him, especially not contrasted to how he was said to speak Dutch like a bumpkin.

 

[Real Name]

fecking embarrassing this club. Any wonder we are going nowhere as a football club.

Get these shit owners out of the club

Indeed.

Horrible all around.

 

[leontas]

"Erik, bear with me, while I find a roundabout way of asking the same question about Cristiano Ronaldo that's already been asked 8 times."

Good to see that he didn't give away much. Would've preferred to see him stamp out the questions after the 3rd try.

 

[Mainoldo]

Flex asking a question. That’s going to boil some piss with the top reds.

That’s not fair on top reds. I think you meant those who are racist

A shame it’s still like this.

 

[Real Name]

The added h's are pretty generic for Dutch folk speaking English; there's certainly nothing weird or unique about him, especially not contrasted to how he was said to speak Dutch like a bumpkin.

Just a theme for the media and fans to talk about too much.

 

[Mickeza]

I don't blame them pressing on Ronaldo. He's either staying or he isn't. He's either on leave for personal reasons or he's gone awol. Ten Hag's just admitted that the long chat he had was before Ronaldo went awol so that was a bit misleading.

Ronaldo is the biggest draw, so what do people expect?

What? He’s specifically said he hasn’t gone awol and has a family issue.

 

[Flexdegea]

fecking embarrassing this club. Any wonder we are going nowhere as a football club.

Get these shit owners out of the club

What


This is so random I need to hear more

 

[Real Name]

I don't blame them pressing on Ronaldo. He's either staying or he isn't. He's either on leave for personal reasons or he's gone awol. Ten Hag's just admitted that the long chat he had was before Ronaldo went awol so that was a bit misleading.

Ronaldo is the biggest draw, so what do people expect?

Well to stop with Ronaldo questions after asking 5 of those already.

 

[Bestietom]

Ten Hag quite good with answering the media. He doesn't seem phased about the way transfers are going YET.

 

[pascell]

I don't blame them pressing on Ronaldo. He's either staying or he isn't. He's either on leave for personal reasons or he's gone awol. Ten Hag's just admitted that the long chat he had was before Ronaldo went awol so that was a bit misleading.

Ronaldo is the biggest draw, so what do people expect?

He can't leave if there's no bid, until one arrives that's acceptable, he'll be a United player.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

The state of that studio.

Embarrassing for the club.

fecking embarrassing this club. Any wonder we are going nowhere as a football club.

Get these shit owners out of the club

Indeed.

Horrible all around.

All this from a standard press conference in Bangkok?

 

[JB7]

They kept asking about Ronaldo because while he is mostly giving a straight bat on a couple of occasions he did drop a tiny bit more information, nothing overly interesting but I'd say enough for them to believe they might get a proper quote if they kept at it. However he handles himself well, he's clear and concise and I particularly enjoyed his calmness when they were pushing the issue.

That’s not fair on top reds. I think you meant those who are racist

A shame it’s still like this.

Disliking one of the frauds off a shite fan channel makes you a racist?

 

[Judas]

fecking embarrassing this club. Any wonder we are going nowhere as a football club.

Get these shit owners out of the club

Is this in the right thread? Why the rage over this?!

 

[El Jefe]

The complete opposite of Ralf. Zero soundbites for the media and I love it.

He just wants to do his talking on the pitch u like the clown we had last season.

 

[Pickle85]

Shaw with a dig at Rangnick nice and early

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Chucking previous coaches under the bus when he's underperformed massively. He's not wrong about poor coaching before ETH but given how bad he was last season you'd think he'd keep his head down and just get working.

 

[Xaviboy]

Lads what he say about transfers/new players?

 

[Adam-Utd]

A small thing but thanking the translator at the end shows what a classy, respectful man ETH is.

I really like what I see and hear from him so far.

 

[Robbie Boy]

All this from a standard press conference in Bangkok?

 

[Mickeza]

Lads what he say about transfers/new players?

We have a good squad and will only bring in the right players. When pressed he said we need to strengthen midfield and attack. So basically everything Ducker etc have been reporting correlates.

 

[Mainoldo]

They kept asking about Ronaldo because while he is mostly giving a straight bat on a couple of occasions he did drop a tiny bit more information, nothing overly interesting but I'd say enough for them to believe they might get a proper quote if they kept at it. However he handles himself well, he's clear and concise and I particularly enjoyed his calmness when they were pushing the issue.


Disliking one of the frauds off a shite fan channel makes you a racist?

Disliking a black man doing what a lot people do, for no apparent reason except for being a ‘fraud’. Yeah I would think it has racial undertone.

Unless people can identity why he’s a fraud ?

 

[TheReligion]

The state of that studio.

Embarrassing for the club.

fecking embarrassing this club. Any wonder we are going nowhere as a football club.

Get these shit owners out of the club

Indeed.

Horrible all around.

Get a room you two!

Embarrassing

 

[lefty_jakobz]

He said Maguire will be captain because “he has achieved great success”. Hopefully he gets him playing better than he has shown so far.

 

[pascell]

Lads what he say about transfers/new players?

Nothing, 90% of questions were about Ronaldo. The other 10% on tomorrow's game and Maguire being captain next season.

 

[RedPed]

What? He’s specifically said he hasn’t gone awol and has a family issue.

He said that he'd had a really long chat with Ronaldo and that everything was fine. So I'd assumed that he was aware of what was going on behind the scenes and everything was all good.

But the journo rightly clarified that by asking if that long chat had occurred before or after Ronaldo went awol. Turns out it was actually before and he's not spoken to Ronaldo since he requested the personal leave.