We're so out of ideas in attack. Sancho and Rashford are just pure passengers
Erik ten Hag - Manchester United manager
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
In the sense of utter collapse, then of course it is.
There isn't actually a combination of 11 players in this squad that can consistently win Premier league matches. They have a fecking attacking mid playing DM because their CM's literally can't pass the ball or play their positions properly. You can put anyone in charge of them, it won't matter.
And we are playing Liverpool next. When was the first time we lost the first 3 games of the season?
Maybe we will see a turnaround then, but a good coach will be doing much better than this especially against Brentford and Brighton
Should have been banned ages ago..
I remember once saying ETH could go the way of De Boer at Palace. Then convinced myself otherwise.
This is smeg.
This is smeg.
Liverpool next week eh? Not looking forward to that at all.
The point is in this game we played good football, went a man down and collapsed. In this it has been utter humiliation from the first minute.
He needs a proper DoF. Who will back him but at the same time, say to him no when is needed.
Spending 60 mil on Martinez and pairing him with Maguire was a disaster from the start
Spending 60 mil on Martinez and pairing him with Maguire was a disaster from the start
Well, looks like there is a huge gap between Dutch league and PL
Feel for Martinez actually, not his fault. This is on ETH
No, don't think De Boer was ever 4-0 down
We set him up to fail.
horrible transfer window and unable to get the targets he wants.
horrible transfer window and unable to get the targets he wants.
They have to play some sort of style though. Every style has been tried with this squad and it’s the same results. What’s the difference between this and Brighton last season when they weren’t asked to press high or play it out? It’s players strolling about not giving anything a chance. Nothing can succeed here.
Sancho is a prime example. All he does is walk slowly to the edge of the box and play a slide rule 5 yard box to the byline. Rinse and repeat.
Rashford run in at an angle, feint to go on outside and cut in. They fail doing the same thing over and over again and (imo) flat out refuse to follow any sort of game plan
I’m by no means judging him yet, especially because one of the players I have defended a ton, DDG, has massively let him down here today. But the Martinez signing already looks a disaster.
He's an excellent manager but our squad is mid table standard at best.
According to some intelligent posters here there’s nothing wrong with our transfer window.
Tbf the United fans on redcafe got no clue either. We all wanted LvG, Jose, Ralf and EtH.
Arrogant enough to want no input from the previous victim of this squad? Good lad. Here's your reward. Made his own fecking bed, so better hope this magical coaching formula comes good at some point
Wait what the feck, I just tuned into the match. Poor Erik 
Wasn't impressed one bit by that Martinez signing, good technically but midget in PL in that position is a nightmare. We did not need spend over 50m on him. Worse of all he pairs him with an absolute trashcan. It honestly seems out of all the previous managers this guy is the most daft and that shocks me incredibly.
He showed himself to be a promising head coach. That was it.
He wasn't managing Ajax.
It takes time to implement anything, but we look like LVG 2.0, passing it around and getting nervous when we lose the ball
Maybe playing on the break is best suited for us after all.
Maybe playing on the break is best suited for us after all.
who would you play in midfield instead? Who would be an improvement?
He shouldn’t be the one signing players. Look at Spurs. The DoF signs the players to make a team so that the manager’s job is to manage the players. At Ajax he had that. At United he doesn’t.
Every defensive signing is a disaster because we expose every defensive player we have.
Support Ten Hag no matter what, I've seen enough to know this is about the players. Get rid of them all.
He was so good that none of the other big teams considered hiring him
Same. Looks like I know nothing. A quality manager wouldnt lose his first two games like this even with a bad crop of players. The fact that he’s targeting all his ex-players doesnt sit well either. Dont think he’ll turn this around but what do I know eh
Hi Erik. Any chance of managing the team? A sub? Change of formation? Anything.
Imagine blaming this on the manager.
Was a very strange signing
Maybe the club are the ones who did not want Ragnick to give ETH a proper handover.
We need to move him into DM
I thought this guy has a clue. Clueless manager for a clueless team.
It was a terrible, terrible signing considering the state of the rest of the team. The only we reason we could justify signing another CB was if he was planning to play 3 at the back. But he wasn't.
We needed a RB and central midfielders. We've not signed a single one of those.
No quite excellent, he's very stubborn and wants to play a certain way. The squad isn't even mid table and needs investing. But Ten Hag is also to blame to try and play his style with this pile of garbage.
Either the board will have to spend a lot of money to let Ten Hag play his favored style or they have to get rid of him.
Agreed. We should start sacking players.
OK I am starting to worry. No game plan, below average players being targeted (so we have even more deadwood), fortunes spent on a baby CB and chasing a Barca player the whole summer who doesn’t even want to join us.
Correct. It's lunacy to expect him to be in charge of recruitment.
Martínez is looking like a dud but it's the club's fault for putting ETH in the position where he's responsible for identifying transfer targets.