there was a rumour that Dortmund were interested in Ten Hag a few weeks ago
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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No wonder we're shit if we have Dan Marino playing in midfield
Perhaps, although the Ajax team he took over hadn't won the league for years, nor have they been anywhere near as successful since.
Besides, even if you're right, the same argument can be made for Pep, so there's clearly a market for managers like that.
That has to be a joke
To be honest, I only quoted you just to prove you were lying when you said you would put me on the ignore list few days ago. You are so amusing.
ETH performance today
good - subbing off antony early
bad-
starting antony
subbing off Mainoo and bringing in McT
not bringing in gore or hannibal once eriksen lost his legs
reguilon left and dalot right should have started, awb has lost his pace since injury
but the biggest, why can't our players make a simple short pass and find their teammates, there were so many missed passes right into forrest players.
good - subbing off antony early
bad-
starting antony
subbing off Mainoo and bringing in McT
not bringing in gore or hannibal once eriksen lost his legs
reguilon left and dalot right should have started, awb has lost his pace since injury
but the biggest, why can't our players make a simple short pass and find their teammates, there were so many missed passes right into forrest players.
Laces were out.
Deserves the sack for that alone
He was lost there, gotta admit. It’s just a poorer version of Ole ball.
Where are the fans claiming he relied on individual brilliance? It obviously isn’t that easy to have attackers shine through like that
Where are the fans claiming he relied on individual brilliance? It obviously isn’t that easy to have attackers shine through like that
Uncalled for, have a word with yourself ffs
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Yes, a very strange move. Perhaps a sign of desperation: just try something, anything.
Thanks for giving it a go, Erik. Best of luck in your future endeavours.
Our problems on the pitch are not hard to see. Whether or not he is clued up on football itself, I would imagine so. I doubt Ratcliffe would trust him with the role he's given over INEOS Sport as a whole if he couldn't. I would imagine the main reason he is there is to be a face of the takeover. The football INEOS people involved with us will be watching too, no doubt.
Ole had multiple job offers, he just didn't take any up. That's been reported about plenty.
As a counter point to your suggestion, just look at Emery. His reputation was in tatters after Arsenal, and now he's at a point where plenty on here want him to take over from ETH, because he moved to a club that wasn't a circus and rebuilt his reputation.
Me too. It broke me. It lost us the game. He has to go
This just proves his weird obsession with Scott McTominay. What a weirdo. A player who was about to leave last summer is now his ultimate card apparently.
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If even one of his signings from the summer worked out he could have survived, but they've all been duds. There is literally nothing we can point to right now that gives ETH an advantage from your average Joe, in our current situation. The best managers dig deep and find solutions. He's just digging and digging another hole for himself on an almost weekly basis.
If the sub is done on purpose, it means ETH sabotages himself. oh well, he is asking for the sack.
They absolutely have gone the same way with every manager. With Moyes it took a few months, with LVG a season and a bit, with Mou it took 18 months or so, with Ole it took a couple of seasons, with Rangnick it took about 45 minutes, but the wheels always fall off, and each time we appoint a manager with a contradictory style and then wonder why there's no consistency or method, rather than just madness.
Made me aven fecking madder when fecking McTominay left us wide open for their winner
He's sacking himself and maybe it's what he wants.
Autocorrect makes worse decisions than ETH.This should be the final nail for any supporters clinging on. Clueless and stubborn. Let’s start 2024 fresh.
Times up I reckon. He just seems to be throwing shit at the wall hoping it sticks. We can't sustain any sort of consistency. You would think after watching that 2nd half performance against Villa that we could kick on but as usual it's back to square one.
The worst thing about it all is the stubborness and arrogance. Same with Van Gaal but the results were never this bad and at least had a functioning (if incredibly tedious) system.
Have to say managing United is quite a handy gig.
You can do extremely shite and worse than the guy you replaced but still you're given millions of chances more to continue than you've actually earned.
If other top teams like Real Madrid found themselves in our situation for 10 years straight they'd probably have had 3 times the managers we had because they don't accept failure.
You can do extremely shite and worse than the guy you replaced but still you're given millions of chances more to continue than you've actually earned.
If other top teams like Real Madrid found themselves in our situation for 10 years straight they'd probably have had 3 times the managers we had because they don't accept failure.
Hopefully he takes McT with him. He’s absolutely terrible. I rage every time I see him pretend to get involved. It’s all meaningless bluster. Yellow card. Falls over. Fouls over and over and loses the ball over and over. DM for Manchester United??? Fred was an absolute beast to get us second beside that travesty
I've been wanting him to succeed here and I still do but if you can't get your team to play attacking football without the opposition playing a suicidal high line like Villa did (which plenty of people at the time said was absolutely ridiculous from them) then it's not going to work out here.
It goes back to those stupid DNA comments from him and about making the team the best transition team in the world. Nobody but NOBODY wanted that here, nobody wanted a continuation of Ole's blueprint. Most people wanted you to implement what you did at Ajax and if it meant ripping the team apart and starting again to do it then so be it. What a waste of time if this project fails, which it is doing. Again, i want him to do well but patience is wearing thin.
It goes back to those stupid DNA comments from him and about making the team the best transition team in the world. Nobody but NOBODY wanted that here, nobody wanted a continuation of Ole's blueprint. Most people wanted you to implement what you did at Ajax and if it meant ripping the team apart and starting again to do it then so be it. What a waste of time if this project fails, which it is doing. Again, i want him to do well but patience is wearing thin.
And ETH had good pedigree before us, excellent even. Arsenal were a mess from top to bottom then, and clubs recognise that as a factor in why Emery failed, and he made mistakes too. We're also a mess, and other clubs will recognise that, he may not go directly to another European giant but he'll be managing around the top level for years to come.
Rambling about injuries on Sky right now.
What I don't like is we looked bothered to score only after conceding.
Tbh Emery hasn't managed a top team since failing at Arsenal either and he was better than ETH
I'm not reading that. What he says and what he does rarely match up anyway.
I really, really wanted him to do well. This feeling is shite. So shite that I've broken out the Ferrero Rocher.
Time for Erik to move on. He has got all the resources to put together the team of his choice and ended up chosing mediocre players from Eredivisie.
I would be glad to see him leave and take his soy-boys Antony, Malacia, Martinez and Onana with him back to Netherlands.
I would be glad to see him leave and take his soy-boys Antony, Malacia, Martinez and Onana with him back to Netherlands.