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Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager

Should ETH be kept on or fired by INEOS


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"United have now lost back-to-back games at Old Trafford by three or more goals for the first time since 1962 and have lost five of their first 10 home games in a season for the first time since 1930." ESPN.

Didn't know we still had records like those to be broken.
 

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Getting hard to defend unfortunately, sympathies to the fans that paid to watch that thrashing. I still think there are some things out of his control like injuries and the ownership and maybe under different circumstances it could have worked out.

That quote about having to conform to the personnel opens the door for for the Glazers to come in and say some nonsense like we want a manager that has a clear way of playing, vision, or philosophy. Knowing damn well they're probably forcing him to play Rashford and won't sell Maguire.
 

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Calmed down a bit after the weekend and today. I think we should stick by ETH because I don't want these dogshit players to get another clean slate. I would throw these fecks out first and then decide what to do with the manager.
How do we get rid of these players when they are on such big contracts. Just out of interest who is the caretaker manager if they pull trigger or don't the club even know that either.
 
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Is there something in place here at United that caps what a manager can do? Is there stipulations that certain players have to play?

How important is the academy stat? Is a manager allowed to break that of for the good of the team?

I am curious.
Well if he’s saying he can’t play the way he did at ajax and he has to be more direct then that says they’ve told him how they want him to play and he’s not use to playing that way.
 

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The Dutch Moyes. Even Moyes was better. Haven’t seen such a clueless coach at United in my life ever.
 

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Calmed down a bit after the weekend and today. I think we should stick by ETH because I don't want these dogshit players to get another clean slate. I would throw these fecks out first and then decide what to do with the manager.
tonight 7 of these “dogshit” players were who he has brought to the club.

what exactly do you mean? People keep saying it as though it’s a team he’s inherited when by large it’s a team he’s created.

The only players getting a clean slate are who many would consider our best two, Bruno and Rashford.
 

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and the cycle continues.. We added another couple of overpaid mediocre players who the next manager has to play, and can only try to build another counter attacking team.. regardless of who the manager is we won’t see anything else than a blip of good form at best.
 

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I am ok for him to be sacked today, at the end of the day he couldn't produce results, regardless of any mitigating circumstances, there were still a lot of questionable decisions that caused these terrible performances.


However, the players are absolutely playing terribly and not working hard enough, they commit easy mistakes and always make wrong decisions all the time and can't focus or retain concentration for 30 mins let alone 90 mins, they are shell shocked from the humiliating defeats they suffer every season home and away from all the types of teams, they also suffer from the constant criticism from media or from fans online (deserved for the most part) and there is no hope for them at all, I am confident if we had Pep or Klopp they will fail miserably with this lot, no manager can do anything long term with this bunch.

We have to get rid of most of them really and start fresh really, Antony is absolutely shit for this level, Bruno is not good enough, as is Rashford, Sancho is useless and has always been useless, Cas and Varane are done and past it for this level and should be shipped, Eriksen is too lightweight, Amrabat is too pedestrian, and of course the dross like McTominay, Lindelof, Maguire, Dalot, VdB, and Martial are totally pointless players, Mount isn't what we needed and that basically leaves us with nothing but a skeleton team and bare bones.
 

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I think we should drop the inverted winger shit that doesn't contribute anything. Until now I still don't understand why so many clubs want to do that. Yes you increase wingers rate of scoring but I believe that should only be reserved for the selected truly world class players that can contribute more to goals than assist eg. Prime CR7.
Otherwise just stick to their winger role and get to byline to cross the ball for attackers to finish. Get back to basics.
Now we have 2 inverted wingers who neither contribute to goals or passing to our attackers. This simply nullified the entire attack options, not just the wings are affected. Our strikers will have nothing to feed on and rendered useless. I don't blame Holjund much because he really do not get much chance in the game to convert those goals. Our strikers have to conjure out something special to even score.
 

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I am ok for him to be sacked today, at the end of the day he couldn't produce results, regardless of any mitigating circumstances, there were still a lot of questionable decisions that caused these terrible performances.


However, the players are absolutely playing terribly and not working hard enough, they commit easy mistakes and always make wrong decisions all the time and can't focus or retain concentration for 30 mins let alone 90 mins, they are shell shocked from the humiliating defeats they suffer every season home and away from all the types of teams, they also suffer from the constant criticism from media or from fans online (deserved for the most part) and there is no hope for them at all, I am confident if we had Pep or Klopp they will fail miserably with this lot, no manager can do anything long term with this bunch.

We have to get rid of most of them really and start fresh really, Antony is absolutely shit for this level, Bruno is not good enough, as is Rashford, Sancho is useless and has always been useless, Cas and Varane are done and past it for this level and should be shipped, Eriksen is too lightweight, Amrabat is too pedestrian, and of course the dross like McTominay, Lindelof, Maguire, Dalot, VdB, and Martial are totally pointless players, Mount isn't what we needed and that basically leaves us with nothing but a skeleton team and bare bones.
Yeah I was just about to say how many players does that actually leave us with,think it's Onana,AWB,Martinez,Shaw,Kobbie,Garnacho & Hojlund which is seriously damning
 

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Generally in favour of giving managers time, but this just isnt working. Maybe hes not a bad manager, but hes not the right manager for us, and that all that matters really

Regardless of how poor the footballing structure is, a decent coach would have us puncing around our weight class, and right now we certainly are not.
 

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Unlike Ole, I do think ETH will land a job at another club after us and will possibly thrive. It does look like its nearing the end on his reign.
 

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Please explain why all the managers have failed at similar stages, lost some of the players, everyone is underperforming? Whatever is going on behind closed doors; the down spiral and failure of all the managers and the destruction of this club has not been all the fault of the managers.
So because I don’t believe crackpot conspiracies, that translates to “the destruction of this club is all fault of the managers”?
 

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Time to copy City and bring in the best team available at every position from top to bottom. Get rid of everyone bar the tea lady.
 

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Time to copy City and bring in the best team available at every position from top to bottom. Get rid of everyone bar the tea lady.
Unfortunately we don’t have owners who actually care about bringing in the best in class
 

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Unlike Ole, I do think ETH will land a job at another club after us and will possibly thrive. It does look like its nearing the end on his reign.
That's generally not a reason to keep a manager though. Plenty of managers work well one place, but not another. I think the question you have to ask right now, is whether Ten Hag is elite enough, smart enough and good enough at building a cohesive team to suffer through this sort of form for another window or two. If he is not capable of building and managing a team that consistently can challenge for titles and win the premier league, then he is quite simply not the right manager.

So far very little suggests he is at that level.
 

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He needs to go. Absolute failure from top to bottom. Sticking with him is as bad as giving a new contract to Bailly. He showed that he has no clue what he is doing and will continue to do so.
 

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Calmed down a bit after the weekend and today. I think we should stick by ETH because I don't want these dogshit players to get another clean slate. I would throw these fecks out first and then decide what to do with the manager.
How are we gonna throw them all out? We can't just delete all their contracts over night. The only thing he could do is drop a couple players and start some youth players from next game on. He could try Mainoo and Gore. We can't get much worse then we are now anyway, it might work. I would love to see them both as starters but he won't do that.
 

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Generally in favour of giving managers time, but this just isnt working. Maybe hes not a bad manager, but hes not the right manager for us, and that all that matters really

Regardless of how poor the footballing structure is, a decent coach would have us puncing around our weight class, and right now we certainly are not.
I think I agree with this. We all saw glimpses of what Ten Hag is capable of -- I thought last season we punched well above our weight on top of the whole Ronaldo situation -- but for whatever reason things are just not working for him. Of course injuries to key players and sheer rotten luck have both played a big role but what we're seeing right now is indefensible.

My only fear is we'll go on a deeper slump if he leaves and the signs of it being a real possibility are everywhere, given how disinterested our players are looking.
 

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This. How are players going to feel motivated when the manager treats a long-time servant of the club like some disposable piece of tissue? Especially for the senior players.

He/they should have addressed it publically or at least brought him back to celebrate his career. No goodbyes etc.
Why are we blaming ETH for DDG exit? It's clear that ETH didn't want him, but the club should have addressed it, not the manager.
 

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That First half was as bad as it gets, Newcastle's second string just played us off the park. Second half was better but the damage was already done.

It is quite clear now that Ten Hag simply isn't up to the task. There is no defending him what has been served this season is now compleatly unacceptable.

Blame the players for sure but the buck stops with the manager. Only four out of last night's starting 11 have played for other managers, so you would think you would at least be able to see something of a coherent plan. In the first half at the very least there wasn't one.

People used to say we were badly coached and tactically inept under Ole, Ole was a tactical genius next to this clown.

We don't create chances, we don't score and we can't defend. There is no identity and no clear tactical plans, the players have no idea what they are doing and some have possibly given up altogether. We need a reset before this season is compleatly lost.
 

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I’m kind of sick of sacking managers at this point. As much as I think it’s not working with ETH, I would rather just keep him just to prove a point to the players.

Players sucked - Ole sacked
Players sucked - Rangnick left
Players sucked - ETH also about to be sacked?

There’s one common denominator here but no one wants to feck them off.
 

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Why are we blaming ETH for DDG exit? It's clear that ETH didn't want him, but the club should have addressed it, not the manager.
ETH has been fault for many things but DDG situation was not be on him and nor I believe it was even a fecking Situation either it's just giving players another excuse for this Shit show gee Club and Manager were mean to my mate how can we perform in such environment .
 

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Other clubs do sack “underperforming” managers, of course, but they can’t be used as a model for what Utd should do. Just generally, with most club’s, adequate performance looks different to what is required at Utd. It wasn’t enough for many of our fans that we won a trophy, reached another final and got 3rd in the league.

The best thing might be to sack the manager but you only have to look at where that policy has landed us to know that it’s a long shot. The thing we haven’t done is stick with a manager through the rough times and see a rebuild through to the end.
But why? Why is United so special? We're hardly the first fallen giant. We haven't even fallen as much as some big clubs of the past have. We still more or less regularly finish 2nd or 3rd. We don't need a rebuild from the ground up to at least play some decent football.

Where this "policy" of sacking underpeforming managers has landed us might as well be higher than if we had stuck with any of the past managers. Really, which manager we should have stuck with? Don't you think there's a danger of creating an even bigger mess that way. That's exactly the point of asking questions right now, not because we're impatient for success.
 

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I’m kind of sick of sacking managers at this point. As much as I think it’s not working with ETH, I would rather just keep him just to prove a point to the players.

Players sucked - Ole sacked
Players sucked - Rangnick left
Players sucked - ETH also about to be sacked?

There’s one common denominator here but no one wants to feck them off.
Think it's more of a case we can't get these players out who are on huge contracts
 

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Do people think there is any truth in his pre season training leading to those back 4 injuries
 

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It was quite damning for ETH that our players seem clueless even when they are trying. We were pressuring them hard in the second half but had absolutely no idea how to create chances.
 

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We have to get rid of most of them really and start fresh really,
Antony is absolutely shit for this level, Bruno is not good enough, as is Rashford, Sancho is useless and has always been useless, Cas and Varane are done and past it for this level and should be shipped, Eriksen is too lightweight, Amrabat is too pedestrian, and of course the dross like McTominay, Lindelof, Maguire, Dalot, VdB, and Martial are totally pointless players, Mount isn't what we needed and that basically leaves us with nothing but a skeleton team and bare bones.
Many have said it but how is this even possible? Let's get real.

This isn't some kind of Playstation game with a re-boot.
 

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You don't have to get rid of the players. You can just back the manager until they realize their subpar performances won't result in the manager getting sacked.
 

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Many have said it but how is this even possible? Let's get real.

This isn't some kind of Playstation game with a re-boot.
Yeah that's exactly my point it's just not a remotely realistic possibility in our situation
 

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Why are we blaming ETH for DDG exit? It's clear that ETH didn't want him, but the club should have addressed it, not the manager.
Its an issue of priority when any organisation is managed under a budget. Then we look at his priorities and judge whether it has made any difference. He clearly didn't fancy DDG who would not allow him to play his ETH ball.

First transfer priority was Mount. Then later Onana. How much have they contributed to the vision of what ETH wants at United?
 

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I have calm down a bit after last night, but not a great deal!
What good will sacking the manager do, who would we bring in? would it make any difference ? they would still have to use the same pool of players.
The summer transfers were IMHO shocking and did not add to the squad.
We are clueless in all departments.
Something needs to happen, but sacking the manager, not sure that's the right route to take.
 

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Chelsea did it. City did it. Even Liverpool did it. Arse did it. You just need support from the top level (and some money)
Our problem is the top level are obsessed with players all about commercial value
 

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That’s on the club. Bench them until the club sells them. You don’t give in to sulkers. These fecking kids need to learn they cannot always get what they want by throwing their toys out.
That's my issue. Even if we bring another manager, we most likely see an improve for a few months. But come next year, we ll see the same issues.

But we won't be able to change it if we don't hire more competent upper management. Let's take Rashford. A player who has underperformed 2 out of the 3 last years. And yet only just few months ago, we renewed him. Good luck getting rid of him.
 

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It was quite damning for ETH that our players seem clueless even when they are trying. We were pressuring them hard in the second half but had absolutely no idea how to create chances.
That's because ETH has created a Frankenstein's monster of a footballing vision now. Arteta stuck with his vision for 2 crappy seasons and it eventually paid off.
 

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I have calm down a bit after last night, but not a great deal!
What good will sacking the manager do, who would we bring in? would it make any difference ? they would still have to use the same pool of players.
The summer transfers were IMHO shocking and did not add to the squad.
We are clueless in all departments.
Something needs to happen, but sacking the manager, not sure that's the right route to take.
Honestly not a clue who can get this lot to actually work hard for the team at all times
 

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But why? Why is United so special? We're hardly the first fallen giant. We haven't even fallen as much as some big clubs of the past have. We still more or less regularly finish 2nd or 3rd. We don't need a rebuild from the ground up to at least play some decent football.

Where this "policy" of sacking underpeforming managers has landed us might as well be higher than if we had stuck with any of the past managers. Really, which manager we should have stuck with? Don't you think there's a danger of creating an even bigger mess that way. That's exactly the point of asking questions right now, not because we're impatient for success.
We actually do unless We address that this cycle of mediocrity would continue to occur , but all this should happen irrespective of manager in charge if they aren't upto it Replace them but this squad needs complete gutting and there should be no Holy Cows focus on bringing well rounded highly technical young hungry players capable of adapting to most systems and raise the talent quotient of the squad so that coaches or manager doesn't have to be all and end all .

And direction needs to driven by higher Ups and the owners they would need to take immense financial hit but it seems it's the only way which hasn't been tried burn it all down to build it up .
 

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Its an issue of priority when any organisation is managed under a budget. Then we look at his priorities and judge whether it has made any difference. He clearly didn't fancy DDG who would not allow him to play his ETH ball.

First transfer priority was Mount. Then later Onana. How much have they contributed to the vision of what ETH wants at United?
I don't get your point. I wanted DGG gone, and the fact that he is unemployed speak for itself, but I didn't like how we waited till the last day of his contract to make it public, but that falls under other people's responsibility, not the manager.

Gk was a priority and we did not treat it such. As always, the club failed to scout a replacement for a position that they should have known the last 4 years we need a new guy, so instead the club just bought who the manager knows, while not being clear with DDG.