To be fair to him, not that he deserves it, Rangnick hasn't got a very impressive CV as a coach - he has an impressive CV as a director of football and football academic. He seems more like an appointment meant to increase the football knowledge at the club and to start that process on the training ground. Someone - probably Murtough - has realised that the only man who has a genuine chance at changing the culture at the club is the manager, and with that in mind has brought Rangnick in to start that process on the training ground and then carry it on into management in a consultancy role. It's a high risk/high reward appointment made possible by the fact that PSG didn't agree to sell us Pochettino.
They aren't wrong when they say he doesn't have an impressive CV, because he doesn't. He's won like 4 trophies in his career and has never managed a top club.
I don't think it's a massive secret that for many, many years players who come here generally perform worse than they did at their previous clubs. Hopefully this changes soon, because it is infuriating to watch player after player come in the door and just be worse than they were when we signed them...
He'll have to adapt - and I think he'll want to.
I think that at former clubs money was a limiting factor that had to be worked around - hence why there's a lot of "hidden gems" that came through. It's probably more down to necessity than anything else. Given a larger budget it would make sense to both sign hidden gems with the potential to become world beaters and the more high reputation players available (Sancho, Haaland, Bellingham (At this point we might as well just buy Dortmund). There's also an element of media handling that comes with being a Man Utd player, which established players tend to have experience with and that can overwhelm players with less experience. You need to strike a good balance and give prospects a chance to learn what it's like before throwing them into the deep-end.
RB Leipzig's most expensive player ever is Naby Keita for €29.7M, ours us Paul Pogba at €105M, and we regularly sign players for €20M that might one day have the potential to play for the first team. I would imagine that anyone who takes a serious look at the club's transfer potential would conclude that while spending €30M would be considered a significant investment at RB Leipzig with all the expectations that come with it, at Man Utd that's about average for a squad-player these days. This of course opens up for the possibility of signing high potential players without much fanfare or media attention and allowing them to grow into top players (Mejbri €5M+, Adama Diallo €15M+) while signing top reputation players to carry the "burden" we heap onto the players (Pogba €105M, Bruno €63M, Maguire €87M, Sancho €85M). I think this is a dream scenario for any footballing executive/co-director of football/transfer policy director w/e Rangnick will become. Given our transfer capabilities we should be doing a hell of a lot better than we currently are, and have a much deeper talent pool at the club than we currently see.
