Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager

Would you allow ETH to manage the cup final before parting ways?

  • Yes

    Votes: 645 44.5%
  • No, get an interim now

    Votes: 805 55.5%

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Yakuza_devils

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Chelsea is going to sign Felix on loan and we are going for cheap option in Wout.

This could be the different between finishing Top 4 or not. We are really short in quality and quantity in attacking side.
 

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Chelsea is going to sign Felix on loan and we are going for cheap option in Wout.

This could be the different between finishing Top 4 or not. We are really short in quality and quantity in attacking side.
Wout are you on about
 

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Chelsea is going to sign Felix on loan and we are going for cheap option in Wout.

This could be the different between finishing Top 4 or not. We are really short in quality and quantity in attacking side.
We wouldn't pay the money and when you look at our lack of depth it looks a bad decision
 

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We wouldn't pay the money and when you look at our lack of depth it looks a bad decision
The owners are happy to use the club money to pay dividends and interest rates for more than 1 bil. When it comes to the obvious reinforcement needed we have to go for the cheapest option. Hope the club is sold asap with the new owners coming in with ambition to match City and Chelsea owners
 

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The owners are happy to use the club money to pay dividends and interest rates for more than 1 bil. When it comes to the obvious reinforcement needed we have to go for the cheapest option. Hope the club is sold asap with the new owners coming in with ambition to match City and Chelsea owners
There is still not enough concrete info on a sale to stop me thinking why didn't we just give Atletico that £9.5m loan fee.

Damn it this is so not right that Erik couldn't get either player he wanted in this January window. They would have helped out massively in this fixture pile up.
 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

Football club acting like a football club:


Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

Football club acting like a football club:


Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

Hopefully ETH will be here now for as much time as fergie was. This needs to be our long term manager! Give him what the hell he wants and needs to be successful. Unlike our previous managers ETH transfer targets are going to suit his style of play which is pressing and attacking football so even if it came to eventually changing manager then we should just target a manager with that brand of football so the players will fit the style of play already. It ain’t rocket science.
 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

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Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

It's the sensible way to approach things and I don't think it's a sign that he is in danger or that he isn't in a safe position. Pep and Klopp don't get full autonomy when it comes to transfers, there needs to be a structure from the top for continuity regardless of who the manager is.

What if our form falls off a cliff in the next 18 months, something serious happens to ETH or for one reason or another he isn't happy at the club and wants to leave. If he's not doing well we might have overcommitted on his ideas and if we are doing well it might all fall apart when he leaves. Murtough and co should be the ones leading on the direction of the club with input from ETH but if it's all on ETH then there's a danger things come tumbling down at some point.
 

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Chelsea is going to sign Felix on loan and we are going for cheap option in Wout.

This could be the different between finishing Top 4 or not. We are really short in quality and quantity in attacking side.
When you want to solve a jigsaw puzzle it doesn't matter how big or shiny the piece is. All that matters is whether it fits flawlessly.
 

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Best decision this club have made in years, signing this guy. :cool:
Now need to back him bigly.
If there's anything we're good at, it's giving managers time. I hope and think this guys here for the long haul.
 

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There needs to be a balance, you can’t purely just buy off the managers say, but he also needs to want the players being bought. We’ve made the same mistake over and over buying seemingly off the current managers whims and it’s cost us hundreds of millions of pounds.
 

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There needs to be a balance, you can’t purely just buy off the managers say, but he also needs to want the players being bought. We’ve made the same mistake over and over buying seemingly off the current managers whims and it’s cost us hundreds of millions of pounds.
There have been plenty of players that have come in that the manager at the time probably didn't ask for specifically
 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

Football club acting like a football club:


Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

It's only a risk if you keep appointing managers with completely different styles of football. Hopefully we're past that now, even if EtH did leave in the next couple of years.
 

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It's the sensible way to approach things and I don't think it's a sign that he is in danger or that he isn't in a safe position. Pep and Klopp don't get full autonomy when it comes to transfers, there needs to be a structure from the top for continuity regardless of who the manager is.

What if our form falls off a cliff in the next 18 months, something serious happens to ETH or for one reason or another he isn't happy at the club and wants to leave. If he's not doing well we might have overcommitted on his ideas and if we are doing well it might all fall apart when he leaves. Murtough and co should be the ones leading on the direction of the club with input from ETH but if it's all on ETH then there's a danger things come tumbling down at some point.
While this is obviously true it doesn't really matter because we dont have capable people at the top. So why not just let Ten Hag get the people in? As if Fletcher/Arnold whoever would know any better.
 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

Football club acting like a football club:


Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

Its the same copy-paste article from "The Athletic"(Written by Ornstein) few seasons ago when Ole was the manager and our "brilliant" Scouting system filtered 800 RB's just to bring us AWB. I don't consider this article more than a public relations attention seeking report.
 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

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Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

Incoming Adnan with the wall-of-text essay defence...
 

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The Athletic has a new piece on the recruitment at Manchester United and from the quotes gathered its all over the place...

Football club acting like a football club:


Ten Hag not as safe as we think with new owners potentially coming in?

Hard to believe the second tweet when the club went and spent £150m on 2 if his former players at Ajax
 

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Hard to believe the second tweet when the club went and spent £150m on 2 if his former players at Ajax
Well they are right it is a long term risk but it doesn't mean it's not a risk worth taking. Maybe United is a club that only responds to a managers singular vision, like Fergie, rather than a DOF+coach.

Or maybe we need a ten hag visionary type now with the control to embed a proper footballing philosophy and the next manager - hopefully a long way off - can be a DOF/coach combo whose job is to maintain and evolve it, like at places with defined footballing styles like Ajax or Barca.

who knows though. I think ten hag is mad enough to think he can embed a new style, for the long term, ie I reckon he wants to be our Cruyff. I hope so.
 
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Ole would've picked the best 11 tonight and this is a big difference between him and ETH

ETH picked a much weakened team but the identity of the team didn't change, and we still got the result
 

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Another sign of progress? When we played City under Ole the odds were around 7-8 for United to win. Now it's around 4.
 

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We play, we score, we don't concede. Hopefully, we can keep the form against Citeh.
 

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Only been here for about 6 months and he’s got us into the top 4. Playing some good football and into the semi finals of 1 cup! He’s working miracles so far.
 

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6 straight wins across the Xmas/New Year period is great going. Even though we didn’t play anyone that you would consider good, we still had to play them all within basically a 3 week period and the usual thing that happens is we draw or lose somewhere in those 6 games, even when we were flying under SAF.

One loss since early October, and that was when Villa activated new manager bounce against us.
 
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He’s doing a phenomenal job. We just look like a team now. Which we haven’t for possibly LVG but we never looked like a good team under LVG.
 

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Ole would've picked the best 11 tonight and this is a big difference between him and ETH

ETH picked a much weakened team but the identity of the team didn't change, and we still got the result
That's because we finally have a much needed identity! Under Ole, it was all just hit and hope.
 

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I wake up in a sweat dreaming about when people were on here saying we don’t need hipster managers like ETH in the club, and Solskjaer was the guy, as he played Maguire, AWB, Fred and McTominay constantly :nervous: