I can't believe some fans are turning on him already because the people above him are inept at their jobs and are botching the window. He's not here to run the club, he's here to be the head coach. It's Murtough and Arnold's responsibility to sort out our dysfunctional recruitment strategy and get him the players he needs.
Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24
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Alex Ferguson, a proud socialist from a working class family and community, was right wing? I don't think you know what that phrase even means.
Read up on Fergie, jesus christ.
I think people are maybe confusing right wing with authoritarian.
Correct
I’m a fan and can’t think of any player we have that I’d be overly upset if they were to leave.
Good part about transfers, signing players that are the right players and not signing players for the sake of it. Got to be patient and the part about FDJ someone from behind the camera answered for him before he answered himself, which was interesting.
Good, well said. Some of our fans want any old signings as long as they are new. That will just make this circle keep on going. Get the right players
I want one of those lineups you look back on in 10 years and think "What a squad" like when you see 08/09: VDS, Neville/Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Tevez, Ronaldo.
Not just average option Cs, and I hope fans start to see that.
Definitely.
And that's an old quote too, they are just sticking to the plan - not signing players just for the sake of it,.
how? Like Moyes if he has a terrible first 3 months..has to ditch his style for what our current players are better at (also happened before) the blame all goes on him, the worse the results the more he’s questioned as never been good enough in the first place. Those above him survive time and time again so it’s all on the manager. Hence every pleb from Merson to Sounness is saying it’s the biggest risk of his career, not because he’s only got to worry about himself, but mainly because he’s trying to succeed where all others have failed, largely because the main transfer targets were not delivered to the then manager…starting way back as far as the Cesc saga, mou certainly had the rug pulled, last season we certainly could have brought in a striker around Jan…it’s endless
PL hasn't even started yet and some of the fans are already criticizing the manager. Unbelievable.
What the hell is this?
Fair enough
I am not attached to a single player at this club right now, we could sell every single first team player and I wouldn't be upset.
Let the EtH purge happen.
Right wing?
What are you people talking about?
What are you people talking about?
By right wing I mean - ruling with an Iron fist. Total control over all aspects of the organisation.
Sack Ten Hag. Hire Boris.
Its a new interview but yeah he's said that before
Think you mean authoritarian. And yes, it's exactly the kind of manager we need.
As yes, the famous Labour supporting, anti-sectarian, liberal, rightwing Sir Alex "I believe the Tories have always been about looking after their own rich types and always will be" Ferguson.
Edit: ah you've already clarified what you meant. I'll put my pitchfork away.
Apolitical and centrist, right?
I’m not talking anou
yes and yes - that’s exactly what I meant.
glad that’s cleared up! Phew caf nearly went nuclear then.
This thread is already taking a nose dive before the season even starts 
I can appreciate this to be fair. But also part of attracting the right players is to be competing in the Champions League, and that is going to be very difficult to achieve with the current squad. I trust Ten Hag to rebuild but I do think some shorter term upgrades should also be considered in the transfer market.
Don't worry
When you said right wing it gives it a political angle... and being right wing doesn't necessarily mean you will be authoritarian. It's political belief versus a certain personality trait. The latter is what you were referring to.
This is one thing I think ten Hag deserves credit for. We haven't signed enough players yet but you can see the rationale behind all of the ones we have signed so far. That hasn't always been the case.
His top target also makes a lot of sense and the main reason he hasn't signed is due to factors outside of his control. It'd look a lot rosier if he didn't have to contend with two unfortunate scenarios surrounding de Jong and Ronaldo.
But that's the problem. We've had short fixes before and ended up with nothing.
Fans just have to accept that it will take time to get back on track. There's nothing we can do about that. Just support the manager because he will need us to be sensible and not react to every bad result. Otherwise we're going around in circles and never getting anywhere.
Thats fair. I don't like the alternatives that popped up thus far either.
Makes sense, thanks for clearing it up.
Will it affect his plans for GW1 regarding players who left early?
No, Ronaldo wont start anyways and the rest were not playing
He still did say others shouldn’t have left too.
Who is turning on him?
Maybe the recruitment guys also know more than yourself and dannyrhinos?
Maybe they are well aware that this will be done as soon as the wage issue is resolved? In that case, why move on? Because redcafe is shitting it’s collective pants?
Not allowed to watch the video because of country restrictions. What does it say roughly?
EtH saying it always rains in Manchester and that he's always dreamed of managing Real Madrid.
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