INEOS and Dave Brailsford were very vocal about meeting the players and finding out about their drive/hunger or whatever words you want to use.
Hearing the rumours of players delaying contract (most likely 100% bollocks tbh) but if true that should be a huge red flag and those individuals need to be binned off asap.
You give 110% no matter who the managers is ffs!
This is the really weird thing about work - we expect footballers to accept conditions we won't in our own working lives unless we have no choice.
If your job is shit or making you unhappy, you aren't likely to stick it out nor give your all to it for any longer than you have to. You might even phone it in whilst actively taking every opportunity to go for interviews elsewhere until you secure new employment. Football is a job, and to a lot of players, logically something they always have eyes on swivel towards their next move or choice of action.
Besides, contracts state they are coming in to play football and yet they're suited up for basketball every game; I'm sure some of the players hate what they are being asked to do and will be considering their options should ten Hag stay. If they can't get parity elsewhere, their equivalent of being 'forced' to stay will be put into practice.
Loyalty also goes both ways and the club might be seen as having a duty to correct conditions otherwise it's not an environment some players will want to be in anyway.
Apart from the inordinate wage we pay, I can't imagine most are enjoying being dragged over coals for every game we lose, being called all sorts and constantly having their professionalism called into question. I should imagine the environment to be incredibly toxic and not a pleasure like it should be.
It's also ironic that these stupid contracts have us bound and sealed when both parties might otherwise want away from each other - for as many as we want culled, it may well be as many praying to be culled; fully paid up and out the door.