Not wrong in his analysis sadly, especially this bit:
"But anyone who has watched those Manchester United players he has been handed will recognise that is a familiar performance, and the people above him should have known that was an unacceptable situation to hand Erik ten Hag that squad
It needed improving more than it has been. There is still time in the window but he needed three or four weeks more to work with them".
https://www.skysports.com/football/...en-hags-first-game-ends-in-defeat-to-brighton
As above, he's entirely correct in his assessment.
You could put any manager in charge of that squad and they'd achieve nothing. There's a handful of players, at best, who are of the required quality to be at a top 4 club. Recruitment has been terrible for the last decade, and the same mistakes are made over and over again.
The club is stricken with a paralysis in terms of football decision making. The faces change but the same problems persist and promoting people "from within" whose faces fit just doubles down on the issue.
United need to look at how other clubs work. Spurs (as an example) made a handful of signings in January - a number of which (perhaps all) would have improved us, and they've moved quickly again in the summer. United need to copy what other clubs are doing and easily have the financial muscle to go out and employ personnel from other clubs to do the job. You can question why they don't do that, but I personally suspect there are too many protected people in there who're worried about the outcome if someone who knows what they're doing comes in and starts asking questions.