he needs his own coaching setup, he can't do it all himself or let Ted Lasso do it ffs
Erik ten Hag - Ajax Manager
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Ted Lasso as he’s known amongst the players.
I think all of the above should be big priority
Midfield has to come first though
Surely he has connections, why can't he find his own coaches to bring with him? Leaving it up to us to provide him with coaches isn't fecking advisable, case in point Eric Ramsey the most pointless set-piece coach of all time.
Why is the Portuguese a big deal? Granted we have a fair number of Portuguese/Brazilian players, but they all seem to speak pretty decent English?
Unless it means they're bringing Antony with them
Ye he’s the most pointless coach ever. Just sits there on the bench with his earphones in.
What Ajax fans are these?
New fitness coach needed as well. Must be worst team in league for ground covered on games.
100%, definitely need upgrading the midfield starting with a DM, ten Hag will probably sign a midfielder first as he wants to play by controlling the games and we can’t do that without a solid midfield… also signing a DM will automatically make the back line look a bit better.
Sounds like Olé!
Its true !
He gave a good interview this morning on Sky talking about coaching, recruitment, tactics etc.
Who needs a plan B if your plan A is so effective? How many gameplans have Klopp and Pep? Not to say ten Hag will do this but I'd much prefer us to have a manager who tries to master a gameplan, rather than be ok at a few different ones.
I remember this post and another where you said you were critical too on ETH. Can you expand on that and whether you think he can take us to the levels of Klopp and Pep?
Yes! Curious since our season is just over.
I would be astonished if at least one full back doesn't come in.
Three, Armas is staying according to one of the tweets.Two bald frauds
Its absolutely a massive deal, and hinders our ability to play out the back and play a high line well.
We should try to sell AWB and buy Tariq Lamptey.
We're a total mess so ten Hag is brave coming to United. At least it'll be a fresh start for us so who knows, maybe we'll improve over next year or two.
He genuinely is a Pep Guardiola is my idol
Great shout. Lamptey would be cheap and looks good in the PL so minimal risk.
Would he be cheap?
Nope.
Won't be cheap plus injury prone and barely tested in back 4 hardly worth the risk .
Somehow I don't think so, how much did Palace get for AWB?
I agree. Brighton demanded £50m for Ben White, they're letting Dan Ashworth sit on his arse at home for months rather than letting Newcastle nick him on the cheap.
They're not going to sell Lamptey for less that £35-40m I would imagine.
Out:
Ralf Rangnick (interim manager)
Chris Armas (assistant manager)
Mike Phelan (TBD)*
*has to be out, wtf does he do?
In:
EtH (Bald Savior JC)
Mitchell van der Gaag (Bald Savior Apostle)
Unknown:
Sascha Lense (sports psychologist)
Martyn Pert (strength and conditioning)
Eric Ramsay (set piece / specialist coach)
Richard Hartis (goalkeeping)
Richard Hawkins (human performance/sports science)
Michael Clegg (strength and power)? - sound duplicative with Pert
Edward Leng (sports scientist/analyst)
Someone next to Murtough (like Paul Mitchell) needs to assess the other coaches or first team staff categorized in the unknown. The fitness and recovery of the players, and natural body type, has to be matched with/made a collective effort with scouting/player identification and sustained if not improved by training/fitness coaches.
Ralf Rangnick (interim manager)
Chris Armas (assistant manager)
Mike Phelan (TBD)*
*has to be out, wtf does he do?
In:
EtH (Bald Savior JC)
Mitchell van der Gaag (Bald Savior Apostle)
Unknown:
Sascha Lense (sports psychologist)
Martyn Pert (strength and conditioning)
Eric Ramsay (set piece / specialist coach)
Richard Hartis (goalkeeping)
Richard Hawkins (human performance/sports science)
Michael Clegg (strength and power)? - sound duplicative with Pert
Edward Leng (sports scientist/analyst)
Someone next to Murtough (like Paul Mitchell) needs to assess the other coaches or first team staff categorized in the unknown. The fitness and recovery of the players, and natural body type, has to be matched with/made a collective effort with scouting/player identification and sustained if not improved by training/fitness coaches.
I don’t think he would cost north of 30 million which isn’t exactly expensive in today’s market. He’s shown he can play better defense than Dalot and he’s very good going forward, so clear upgrade over AWB too.
The club needs to stop forcing coaches on the manager. Let the manager select who he wants to work with. If he’s not keen on Armas, chuck him out. I also fail to see where any of the existing coaches, even those Rangnick brought in, have any clout to continue their job, especially the fitness coaches. We look more unfit than when Jose was in charge. Ole was supposed to correct that and could not. Are the players just lazy as feck or is there deeper problems? Not to mentioned this fecked up year with the WC in the middle of the season. What a ridiculous decision by FIFA to allow that to happen. Clubs are going to be injury laden come the new year 2023.
I don't think the club has ever forced a coach on a manager, even when they should have, when Moyes infamously ignored Ferguson's recommendation to keep the existing staff in favour of installing, as he came to be known, "Feck off" Round.
Every one of those useless feckwits need to replaced, they have obviously done a bang up job so far!
Completely new ideas and fresh faces are required otherwise ETH is hamstrung from day one.
Except we don’t have players with the ability to play out from the back. De Gea to Maguire, Maguire to De Gea, De Gea to AWB, AWB to De Gea - repeat until De Gea kicks it long to nobody.
Ten Hag needs to be able to bring in who the hell he wants to help him get us back on track… he should be allowed to get rid of who he wants and sign who he wants. He’s definitely bringing in his assistant from Ajax but another important Coach he needs to bring with him is his fitness coach, I’m assuming he has one at Ajax, they look miles fitter then our lot. It feels like we haven’t got one or had one in years… surely people from the board should be checking that staff are doing there jobs properly? Fitness coaches are suppose to make your team fit and raring to go but that’s not the case with us, there all lazy… sack him! Club needs re organising from top to bottom.
You’re the third person I’ve seen suggest this.
we will swap one weakness with the polar opposite. One can’t attack and the other can’t defend. No thanks
It's worth mentioning that he doesn't have a staff, he used Ajax's staff, at the exception of his assistant who wasn't with him at Ajax initially.
I know it's not always reliable, but I wonder what the Moneyball stats system would say who is the best full back available at this time?