Last season we got top 4 and won the least important trophy in England, so ?You must have been zoned out last season mate.
Also if you think a manager should show chops of challenging for this city side within one season with OUR squad (recall the big leavers after Ole) then your expectations are the problem, not the manager.
It's hilarious how people are treating last season as some sort of unprecedented success of the post Fergie era. We got top 4 and won League cup. Van Gaal, Mourinho and Ole all finished top 4. Mourinho got 2nd spot and Ole got 3rd and 2nd two season in a row, for God's sake. LVG won an Fa Cup which is far more prestigious than the glorious League Cup Ten Hag won and Mourinho won that same League Cup plus a Europe League trophy. Ole reached a Europe League final which Ten Hag failed to do, and lost on pens, while having a shit luck in other cup competitions draws unlike Ten Hag whose only top 4 team he faced in both his domestic cup runs last season came in the finals.
LVG, Mourinho and Ole were deemed a miserable failure at United. Ten Hag at the same time, achieved nothing more than them and yet considered good enough to be United' savior.
Ten Hag has done feck all more than our previous managers whom all got sacked and he's going to end the same way as them. People treating last season as some sort of a sign we're a title challengers in the making need to look at the whole 10 years and not just half a year under Ralf.
With 2nd season and 400m spent, United should have been closer to the top teams now than close to the bottom half starting season with 6 losses out of 10 games and with their hopes reduced to try and finish top 4 at best. Top 4 isn't gonna be a success or an achievement this season. It's the bare minimum for every manager not named "Erik Ten Hag".