Pressing cannot just be relegated to one area of the pitch, which is exactly what you're doing.
Yesterday we tried to high press - what Ten Hag is trying to achieve - and we were ripped apart. You're just missing the context.
To be wholly competent at pressing, one can't say "Oh, we're only good at pressing in our own half". That is not what pressing is. It's entirely holistic and if you can't high press or press beyond your own half, how on earth can you say with a straight face that these players can press? They've not shown a single example the past year.
Liverpool was not an example of high pressing, that was an example of drawing them into our own half and pressing with limited space behind the players. Can they do that? Yes. We were able to do that under Ole.
But that's (a) not pressing in its entirety, (b) not what Ten Hag or Rangnick wanted, (c) we don't need Rashford/Sancho/Fernandes to step out inside our own half and (d) won't get us anywhere in the long run - we need to learn how to press and that includes, crucially, pressing beyond our own half.
Your so muddled here.
As I keep saying to you, pressing in its entirety, is a structured cohesive method of putting pressure on the opponent's who have the ball, it happens all over the pitch, not just high up the pitch.
You claim these players can't press yet then counteract that by saying the very same players pressed at Liverpool.
Good teams counter the other team, a high press doesn't always win every game, hence the need for deeper pressing, that's how we won the Liverpool game.
So, the players can press, you've even said it yourself.
The same aspect of a deep press can be taken into a higher press, it's a structure, one which we used at Arsenal, we actually engaged much higher up the pitch in that game, just Arsenal were extremely good at countering the press hence the reason we dropped back into a shape and played on the counter (again, good teams adapt and adjust depending on the situation),
A high press isn't always needed to win a game.
I actually don't think we tried to high press yesterday at all, we gave the back line of City too easy a game by not engaging high, seemed tactical to me but the City midfield use of the ball was alas exceptional, ours wasn't.
We tried to play on the counter and kept trying killer balls leading to an inordinate amount of turnovers in the first half.
I comprehend what you are saying, I just think you are applying a high press as the only way to press, when it quite clearly isn't.