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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...

Ten Hag's biggest problem so far is his recruitment. They did not try hard for Frenkie when we had financial issues(he wanted to stay but the club wanted him out) and bought Mount for 60-70 million. Frenkie, Bruno and Casemiro would have worked for sure.

This is on Ten Hag for picking a terrible job to begin with. He's someone who can't be the face of a club necessarily, at Ajax he had an incredible structure with Overmars leading it, and he just had to stick to coaching for the most part. I am aware of his work at Utrecht where he focused a lot more on squad building, but Utrecht vs United are very different situations.

Because he's massively out of his depth in this league

should have said that at the interview

Well, maybe you should.

But you even signed a bunch of Ajax players to do just that...

Aka: "my players can't form a team that can regularly score goals while not conceding"

We can tell.

Man realises it after transferring almost entire ex-Ajax squad here

I have to say I'm genuinely really f****** surprised to me that he is failing to at united like he really genuinely is the manager where I thought they would turn it around his Ajax was so f****** good. But I do genuinely think the failures also partially down to him I mean quotes like that just absolutely won't help but I'm sure there's also just a really toxic psychological structure in a lot of these Manchester United players. Curse words are blurred because I'm using speech to text

Ronaldo is the problem

Oh 😃

Ten Hag is a really poor man's Guardiola, he was able to hit the ground running at his first big job because the club had an identity, he was familiar with it and he had the right type of players to start implementing his brand of football. The difference is that when Guardiola went to City he actually had a good club structure, a vision of what he wanted to do and the talent to make adjustments to evolve his style accordingly. Ten Hag came into a mess and does not seem to have the talent to implement a cohesive idea from scratch into a club and without the proper structure there is no one to help him do it either.

Come back man, we will take you back with open arms

So what is his solution? He’s hired to be the coach with a rebuild plan yet he seems he has no ideas, no style, no motivation. Is he asking to be sacked?

It's so joever

Small brain here - why is this even a discussion? Ten Hag has a collection of some of the best footballers in the world. They are skilled and athletic. He was hired for his style of football and success at Ajax. He should make them adapt to his play style, or they sit the bench. Simple as that.

This is eerily starting to resemble quotes from previous Man Utd managers when things started to turn sour. In all honesty, I don't see Ten Hag making it to next season, especially with how poor Utd perform against top teams in the PL and in Europe. The injury crisis hasn't helped, but overall the team looks worse this season than the prior one.

narrator: "they play the football they played at Ajax there"