In player terms, Weghorst is at the end of his career. In managerial terms, Ten Hag has his prime ahead of him. Weghorst has had PL experience before he came to us, by the way.
Player comparisons are so shite. Should I say Vardy was crap because he peaked at 26/27 with a PL debut?
I am not saying that he won’t ever learn anything new, but he is basically the finished article. He is older than Pep, for crying out loud, older than Fergie after he had won his second title with us, as old as Ancelotti when he won his third UCL (and had his fourth UCL final), older than Mourinho when we hired him, you get my point. He is basically at the age when many top managers start declining, not at an age when promising managers start winning titles.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that he won’t ever win anything, the likes of Ranieri and Spalletti won their first league in their sixties. But in any profession of life, most people do their best work in twenties, thirties and fourties, while in fifties and thereafter it is more using their collected experience to do/continue doing great work. That is my point, this is not a manager who will now reinvent himself and drastically change the way he plays, more like a finished product who at best might refine parts of his game. And that is why the comparisons with Arteta are absurd, Arteta was basically a baby in terms of managers, so obviously he would be making massive mistakes while learning. It was his first managerial job, on his thirties. Very different to EtH now.