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Erik ten Hag - Ajax Manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
Probably Mazraoui, since the moneyball approach also takes into account the cost of the player.
Ooh. An Ajax player...
Bayern bound with Raiola as his agent so probably not very moneyball at all.
Why should they? I mean it’s not even his coaching team really, just a few cobbled together and Fletcher helping out. But you knew that surely?
Sascha was brought in by RR, so he is probably leaving with Armas too.
IMO, I think he coaching Staff are merely a support staff to the Head Coach, from what we've been told about ETH, he is a "Hands-On" coach, very detailed and meticulous, and spends long periods of time on coaching and training his players, he will certainly set the tone of the training sessions, and his Assistant, Van der Gaag will be his trusted no.2 to help him lead these trainings.
The rest will follow ETH's plan & vision, so I don't see it as an issue if the current coaches are retained next season (except for the 2 hired by RR & Phelan), but I think it's best if most of the existing football coaches are replaced and new competent ones brought in if possible (based on ETH's preferences of course), the current coaches should only be retained if a replacement cannot be found.
The non coaching staff, like the ones from Sports Science or Analysts, they should stay if there's a value in keeping them, I don't think they work with the players directly anyway.
There's also the Medical Staff, we played less games than the likes of Liverpool and city who went deep into domestic cups and CL, yet we have multiple injuries throughout the season, I wonder if RR would recommend an overhaul of the Medical Department.
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Seems on odd day to announce today. I guess it gives him the chance to get back to preparing Ajax for Saturday and it's 48hrs since the disaster.
Yeah needs all the hire and fire power that Guardiola and Klopp were given straight away
I would love to have heard the brutal assessment he delivered. I doubt he'd have taken the job if they're not going to let him attempt to fix it.
I think this is the most promising part, he sounds like he wants to fix the club, not just the first team.
I think this is the most promising part, he sounds like he wants to fix the club, not just the first team.
Can we finish this?
I saw someone else suggest that also and I agree. I had been thinking that United is a kind of graveyard for reputations, but actually, things are so low now that expectations are at the bottom as well. A new coach hence has free reign to do whatever they want, and the fanbase will be happy with anything that looks new and different. As long as there is gradual and continuous progress in performances, Ten Hag might be allowed some two years of middling results before real complaints would start again about not winning prizes etc. That's pretty much a free ride for a fulsome rebuild (no need to 'build a plane while flying'), while United also has the money to fund it. And after all that, if it fails, most people will likely blame the players againl and if it succeeds, Ten Hag is a hero.
There are probably some nuances I could add here, but all in all, that's a pretty nice scenario to walk into for Ten Hag.
Think we may need a RB even more than a CB. Although we can use Laird if ETH wants
It's not the United way. You know that.
We should announce him via a Sanchez parody video, playing a broken Piano or something.
You would think that they are going to give him full power to get it done because if they don’t and are just hoping his skills as a mgr will fix this they will be setting you back for more and more years. Also you better hope he’s not thinking that his ability as a mgr alone will be enough to change it for the better. He needs to change the culture and get rid of a bunch of players and really recruit well. It needs to change because I have never seen a united or Liverpool team give up in any match in any era of our rivalry until your team this season.
Nope, we'll put it wide
choked on my coffee ....
I'm hoping an imminent announcement means we will thrash Arsenal this weekend as the team gets a renewed sense of energy ..one can dream I guess
Is an Oblak/DDG swap in the cards?
No, he's bad with his feet. Make no sense for Ten Hag.
Keeping faith in this lot
There was? Where?
I'd rather he was the one breaking the piano, while Stormzy looked on tearfully at a shirt numbered "6" but bearing no name.
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Oblak?
Erik Ten Hag's Red army.
Playing football.
The busty babes.
Playing football.
The busty babes.
But he has won the league almost every season, which makes him quite successful. As long the team keeps winning, doesn't matter when and how he makes his subs. And even if its a one-trick, as long as that gives off high return on a consistent basis- he can stick to it. I'd worry if his tactics stopped working and then he didn't have a backup plan at all.
I reckon all top managers do have backup plans and can adapt to game situations. But they also have their own style, philosophy, and tactics which hardly changes. It would be mad to expect a manager to play 4-2-3-1 high press and possession game one week, and then suddenly change to 3-5-2 low block counter attack the next. That almost never happens.
Which one is it? Or is it the United way to put it wide?
can anyone tell me how he actually plays? ive seen lots of things just said with no evidence. is he press first or possession first? lot of people saying he will start garner but seems alvarez is an out and out holding midfield (but de jong wasnt before that). has he played a variety of styles at ajax depending on what players he had to sell each summer? plays a target man and natural wingers at the moment, without conventional full backs?
He plays high line and expects his back four and keeper to be capable to play progressive passess, he uses inverted full backs, he's more flexible in attack as he has played with false 9 and traditional 9 before. For more information, read below. I think De Jong and Alvarez situation or even false 9 and traditional no 9 shows he can adapt with different type of midfielders and attackers as long as they works hard and can play quick football. But one thing that hasn't change is how he expects his back four and keeper to play progressive passes.
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threads looks very good thanks a million
Announcement imminent apparently
Rumours on twitter that this will be official in a couple of mins time...
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I look forward to the official announcement
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