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Oh joy, we've reached the part of the cycle where the depressing quotes start, with the manager lowering already rock bottom expectations...
Nothing depressing about this. All he's saying is that Ajax have a particular brand of football and he adapted to it. United have never played that style and don't have the players for it, so it doesn't make sense to try to do the exact same thing he did before.
Then why did he buy the Ajax players?
He bought 2 Ajax players in total.
At Ajax he got the same amount of players from Benfica and from Sevilla, but they weren’t playing like them either.
Wasn’t he brought in to implement that style? And wasn’t he given all that money to sign the players to implement that style? It’s kinda weird to say it can’t be done after 3 transfer periods.
United's 2 biggest and 'best' players in Rashford and Bruno simply cannot play possession-based football. That's not their strength. Ten Hag's issue is that he bought in some players precisely to play possession-based football (e.g. his new goalkeeper) but then also has players who can't cope with it (e.g. Maguire and Evans right in front of the GK).
United wanted Ole to create an attacking transition team, and from everything ETH has said this summer, he's trying to create the same thing.
He’s adapting to the United ‘shit’ brand of football. He’s a plonker for trying to play counter attacking football at a top side. Camping in all game at home against city is a disgrace
Yeah, the problem is that is the job he was brought in to do and they are just now figuring that out. Now what? Let him go and hire a manager that plays United style? Who would that be?