Erik ten Hag

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    exactly, the lads he’s bought have been injured all season? It’s not his fault that those players who by the way have had generally good injury records have had freakish injuries. Hojlund will be mint, and as you say he’s developed young lads like Mainoo/ Garnacho. Those are the types we need to sign and develop which he has shown he can do.

    the recruitment as has been with every manager before him is crap because we don’t have a football structure in place - a structure that should be signing players not whoever the manager is at the time. The clubs broken - we finally have a structure in place for that to hopefully improve moving forward. Even at city which is the gold standard they’ve had a few questionable signings in recent years, Grealish / Gvardiol at 100m each, Nunes at 50 odd, Phillips at 50 odd etc

    he obviously deserves shit but the lack of complete context given to our season is amusing - weve literally had 6 centre half’s out, 1 fit fullback all season etc That’s not absolving him of blame but certainly bizarre getting to a cup final is labelled as embarrassing.

    also bit of Ferguson style contempt today which I enjoyed.

    “Ten Hag arrived at the press conference and was greeted with "Good afternoon" to which he rightly replied "Good Morning"

    He then followed up on the journalists mistake with “Sharp. I notice not everyone is sharp here,” Ten Hag commented. When he was asked who in the room was not sharp, he retorted, “Oh, the majority, I would say.”

    good to see him pushing back on these halfwits who are suggesting he can’t manage a team when’s he done it across multiple teams and multiple seasons - it’s one down year ffs

    anyway, onwards and upwards. We all want the same thing :)
     
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    Pretty much every Dutch person on the planet is like that. :laugh:
     
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    I really, really hope we're looking back at this time next season thinking what a pillock I am when Hojlund's got 20 League goals, but I doubt it, he's not good enough.
     
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    Is that you, Eric?
     
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    UnitedRoad 32 Years : F*** All

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    Love them :cool:

    he has been dross since he came back from injury, we really need another striker. All of us could have said going into the season with. 20 yr old is daft, look at how the divs manager Alvarez and the scousers Nunez. Crap squad construction as usual, depending on martial ffs


    I do have a soft spot for the fella. Think he’s handled pretty much everything with a level head when some of it has been proper rubbish
     
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    On the plus side:


     
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    Oldham must be thrilled because half of them will no doubt end up there..
     
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    This is where the likes of Mainoo and Garnacho learn their trade.
     
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    Please have him back.


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    :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

    Jose Mourinho would love to manage Manchester United again but the club does not want to reappoint the Portuguese.

    Mourinho has told confidants he would "walk" to Manchester to manage United for a second time, having been sacked by the club in December 2018.

    The two-time Champions League winner is a friend of United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe but Mourinho is not expecting an approach from his former club.

    Incumbent United manager Erik ten Hag presided over a Premier League-era record 13th loss of the season in the 4-0 thrashing by Crystal Palace on Monday night.

    United are eighth in the Premier League table and could finish outside the top seven for the first time since 1990. The 18 defeats United have suffered this term is their most in a season since 1977-78.

    Jose Mourinho wants to manage Manchester United for a second time
     
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    Brian Potter!

    Bigger, better, faster, stronger, rising out of the ashes. A superclub, a King of clubs only this time we'll have it all. A restaurant, a bistro - we'll serve food.

    key questions rather than try to appraise each one is can you make a quality side out of his signings and would any big club be after them?

    Onana
    Malacia
    Martinez
    Evans
    Eriksen
    Casimero
    Mount
    Antony
    Hojlund

    can't actually make an XI out of 10 signings but near enough to gauge, Bayindr not played of the actual signings and a GK so no point sticking in

    can't say as that's a great set of signings, some clubs may want Hojlund at some point but not on what he's done to date, and the rest probably not with Eriksen likely unwanted given his age more than ability

    Garnacho looks a good player, would want to see more of Mainoo. re slabhead and McT, the latter is a decent pro but would only keep him for transition period, I'm sure if a side were built around a few players he could be one but once built would move him on. slabhead can be upgraded upon, may have some solid games but I'm sure the club would sell him first decent offer and assuming the bastard would agree a deal as he is without much doubt going to transfer downwards and best hope of silverware is to go to a lesser league (saudi or eg PSG)

    need to be wary also of older players :

    36 Evans
    32 Eriksen, Casimero
    31 Maguire, Varane
    29 Lindelof (30 in July)
    28 Shaw (29 in July), Martial (29 in December), Onana

    some of ETH's signings are younger but not top notch, isn't exactly Dad's Army but I'd be looking to shift about half of them in the summer if it were my call, or more. To retain players reaching supposed peak or simply should be key players I would take or (mainly) leave most of them, in the call re making a good XI they'd again be wanting and majority have not lived up to expectations
     
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    An utter embarrassment.

    Yet another classless episode of the shit show that is Manchester United. Run by idiots from
    top to bottom - who leaks this the DAY BEFORE a cup final vs city. Deserve everything we get
     
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    :laugh: yeah, whoever, if involved with the club, has leaked that needs a good slapping and sacked on the spot. Awful timing.
     
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    Agreed, but Di Marzio actually broke this story at the start of the week, idk why nobody else picked it up.
     
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    Said it before, but since SAF has departed the entire club has went to total shit.
     
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    Sir Alex still has influence at the club.
     
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    Went to shit before that, he was covering the incompetence

    Never felt so disenfranchised with United in my life. Not even arsed about whether we are good or shit, how we carry ourselves is a proper embarrassment. Tinpot club run by idiots - I thought maybe Ineos would change some of that but it’s more of the same

    I understand the bitterness as he ran the show for 20 years hammering everyone but this desperation to some how put some of this mess at his feet is :D

    he won everything for a long time - get over it.
     

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