Erik ten Hag | 2022/23 & 2023/24

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That result has made reality hit that he is not going to be pep/klopp levels of managerial ability

and by your very sound logic I would presume Sir Alex was not at pep/klopp levels of ability due to losing 6-1 at home to city, 6-3 to southampton, 5-0 to newcastle etc?
 
I don’t think he always gets it right. But I do think he is good at learning from mistakes. I think we can all agree without any disrespect to his previous employers that this is by far the biggest job he’s had. It’s a huge job in so many ways but mostly in the sheer amount of graft required to transform the club into a winning club. A defeat, even our worst ever defeat, doesn’t really detract from his fundamental qualities imo.

He’s more of a master mason than an artist. He’s practical minded and has to work his way to solutions. I think our club will be transformed under ETH but it won’t get rebuilt in a day. It’s a long term job. Which I like (just cut out the frickin’ 7-0 thrashings, will ya?).
 
just crazy people are actually saying to sack EtH over this game. So many of the goals were just down to stupid individual mistakes and players losing their heads. But what do you expect i guess people love to go to the extremes.
I don’t think anyone is being serious about sacking ETH after this. Take those comments with a pinch of salt. I mean I am absolutely furious but mostly with the players. I would have picked a different team and a different formation but that’s just standard fan waffle.
 
If you were in ETHs position this morning what would you be thinking? What actions would you be taking?

i’d make them lie in a circle around me, their heads a couple of foot away from my feet. i’d tell them the star player from yesterday is about to get the star treatment. then i’d tell them they’re not allowed to move, just like they didn’t move yesterday when liverpool were tearing us apart. i’d then slowly spin in a circle, chanting “fan justice, fan justice,” as arcs of warm piss splattered down on their faces.
 
I don’t think anyone is being serious about sacking ETH after this. Take those comments with a pinch of salt. I mean I am absolutely furious but mostly with the players. I would have picked a different team and a different formation but that’s just standard fan waffle.

My take is those comments were made by oxygen thieves.
 
i’d make them lie in a circle around me, their heads a couple of foot away from my feet. i’d tell them the star player from yesterday is about to get the star treatment. then i’d tell them they’re not allowed to move, just like they didn’t move yesterday when liverpool were tearing us apart. i’d then slowly spin in a circle, chanting “fan justice, fan justice,” as arcs of warm piss splattered down on their faces.

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If you were in ETHs position this morning what would you be thinking? What actions would you be taking?

Id drop Bruno for a couple games, seriously. He needs a rest and to calm the feck down. Id have serious words with Varane and Casemiro about standards slipping. Id also kick Gary Neville square in the bollocks, but id do that most days anyway. Oh Id also tell the Glazers to get fecked
 
I'm surprised there are people who would be willing to sack a manager over one game. A historically bad performance but you sack managers for a string of bad performances. That was a freak 45 minutes.

Nah losing 7-0 to our biggest rivals is simply not something you brush under the carpet at all. It's a total embarrassment.

But as I said there were valid reasons for it and the fact we won the cup last week too takes some of the edge away.

Had we lost to Newcastle and still lost 7-0 there would be lots of Ten Hag out calls today. Thankfully we didn't and we won the final.

I still think he's a top manager and pleased we have him but he can't repeat this again. 6 at City and 7 at Liverpool needs to stop. Even if we have to play defensively. We can't get hammered again like that.
 
That result has made reality hit that he is not going to be pep/klopp levels of managerial ability

While I disagree with you at this point, it is worth stating that Pep and Klopp is a very high standard to hold a manager to. Pep is one of the greatest managers in history, and Klopp is probably second only behind him as the best manager in the last decade (I don't think there's another manager who could have had a team like Liverpool competing with Pep's city). It's a bit like people back in the day saying that a manager wasn't going to hit SAF's level of managerial ability. They probably would not, because he was an anomaly. Some managers are anomalies, just as some players are.

No one thought Pep or Klopp would hit the levels that they did when they got their first crack at a big club either, so time will tell how high ETH's peak will be. At this point he is the most exciting 'new' manager in world football for me.

That being said, our manager doesn't have to be in the undisputed top two managers in the world. It's perfectly acceptable for our manager to be a Luis Enrique/Ancelloti/Heynckes/Simeone level of manager who wins things and is considered very good but probably isn't considered the best of the best.
 
Nonsense. Klopp went to City early in his tenure and got smashed 5/0. I remember a dominant powerful Bayern side under Pep getting humiliated 4/0 at home to Real. These managers played their game and continued to do so afterwards. Our own Fergie played the best team of its era in a CL final with a pro active approach even if it meant a midfield of Carrick, Park, Valencia and Giggs. It was 3/1 but was probably one of the most one sided batterings we ever had, more so than the 6/1 to City. Top pro active managers get so much out of their teams but in exchange, they do have these freakish days when out of miscalculation or misfortune, everything that can go bad, does go bad on the day. It hurts that for us it happened at the worst ground possible against the worst opponent possible and the scoreline was really freakish with 7 goals out of 8 shots but it's no different than the aforementioned examples when it's just a horrible, horrible day at the office.
Exactly. People are completely blowing this out of proportion. It's one bloody game, and it's not like United lost more points or Liverpool gained more because it was 7-0 instead of 2-1 or whatever.
 
For all the moaning about squad depth, you have to remember that we were denied the opportunity to add significantly to the squad in January while only being given loan signings. While ETH has done wonders with what he has , there must be some difficult conversations had about yesterday. I would expect that a good chunk of the ire and frustration that we feel today is directed at the owners and board for ignoring the manager's needs and not strengthening the squad properly to see out the rest of the season in light of the club's expectations.

Pretty much this
 
just crazy people are actually saying to sack EtH over this game. So many of the goals were just down to stupid individual mistakes and players losing their heads. But what do you expect i guess people love to go to the extremes.

I know it's not the same people, but it's either title race or sack ETH.. Just reactionary nonsense both ways
 
Might be the most bizarre 45 minutes of football I have ever watched honestly.

Absolutely. The same 3 of Varane, Licha and Casemiro hadn't conceded one open goal in 8 games, and then they go on to concede 5 in one game. Just crazy
 
i’d make them lie in a circle around me, their heads a couple of foot away from my feet. i’d tell them the star player from yesterday is about to get the star treatment. then i’d tell them they’re not allowed to move, just like they didn’t move yesterday when liverpool were tearing us apart. i’d then slowly spin in a circle, chanting “fan justice, fan justice,” as arcs of warm piss splattered down on their faces.
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i’d make them lie in a circle around me, their heads a couple of foot away from my feet. i’d tell them the star player from yesterday is about to get the star treatment. then i’d tell them they’re not allowed to move, just like they didn’t move yesterday when liverpool were tearing us apart. i’d then slowly spin in a circle, chanting “fan justice, fan justice,” as arcs of warm piss splattered down on their faces.
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just crazy people are actually saying to sack EtH over this game. So many of the goals were just down to stupid individual mistakes and players losing their heads. But what do you expect i guess people love to go to the extremes.

Haven't seen one person actually say sack him.

I made a comment that's the type of result that can get you the sack if you don't have credit in the bank. Thankfully he does.

I also said that had we lost at Wembley and then followed it with that yesterday there would be a lot of people very angry today with him. It's a results business at the end of the and losing 7-0 to them lot isn't acceptable.

I think he will come back from this as it's the type of manager is. I certainly don't want him to get sacked either.
 
For all the mistakes he made in the match yesterday it's like many are forgetting in the first half we had the better chances and Liverpool barely had a shot on goal. We could have just as easily gone in at the break in front. The second half was purely down to the players heads going an giving up. That is not on Ten Haag to me. He made his mistakes but we were still in the game in the second half untill we conceded the second. After all he has done so far this season i can't blame him too much for yesterday. It's on the players.
 
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Yep not much difference between letting in 6 or 7. Horrific performances obviously but an unlucky deflection or a bad bounce can make it 7 instead of 6, or save you from letting in a 7th. Doesn't really change what the manager has achieved in the majority of their other games.
Except for the fact we were down to 10 men in that game. The similarity was still going forward at 3/4 goals down rather than damage limitation - the manager should have got that message across fairly easily.
 
For all the mistakes he made in the match yesterday it's like many are forgetting in the first half we had the better chances and Liverpool barely had a shot on goal. We could have just as easily gone in at the break in front. The second half was purely down to the players heads going an giving up. That is not on Ten Haag to me. He made his mistakes but we were still in the game in the second half untill we conceded the second. After all he has done so far this season i can't blame him too much for yesterday. It's on the players.
Agreed. Shocking individual errors and sloppiness. Lack of squad depth meant he couldn't rest key players who were having niggles yesterday.
 
Back to basics time for ETH. Get players back in their best positions. Weghorst up front, Rashford left and Bruno No.10.

Too much messing about from him yesterday.
Weghorst’s best position is watching the game from the stands. He should not make the squad, let alone start.
 
Carry on losing your shit then. Changes nothing and brings nothing onto the table.

We can only hope that to see a reaction from these players.
Dude, people are allowed to be upset when their favourite team gets ripped to shreds by their biggest and bitterest rivals to a degree that they've literally never been ripped to shreds by those rivals before. Everyone will get back on the positive train soon enough, allow them time to be annoyed.
 
I trust him to find out why the heads went yesterday and to address it. It was numbing yesterday, now it just seems like some bizarre collective brainfart.

I mean, six goals in one half after a decent showing first 45 is baffling.
 
Weghorst’s best position is watching the game from the stands. He should not make the squad, let alone start.

I'd probably agree but if he is on the pitch it can't be as a 10. No other big club has a Wout at 10.
 
For EtH, I think he needs a lot more from the likes of Sancho, Antony, Dalot, McTominay, Wout (he's done really well to ease the workload on Rashford but there's no goals and barely even any shots), Lindelof etc. I said in another thread that i'm not giving up on Sancho or Antony but it's frustrating that neither of them seem capable of putting a good five-ten matches together and finally claiming that RW spot.

We're playing the same key players constantly amid stories (might not be true) that Rashford, Varane, Casemiro are all playing with knocks. We need the squad to step up and show the manager that they can be trusted.
 
The squad still needs to be gutted just as it did when he took over. That’s the lesson to take from this, don’t settle, don’t get carried away by some of these players, don’t dish out lots of new contracts to too many of them.

This was always going to take 3 summer windows to fix and there are still 2 to go.
 
Same here. Nobody watching that first 40 would have seen a 4-0 let alone a 7-0
Yeah the half time analysis on French TV was more to the tone of "Utd have been quite good, Liverpool were lively early on but faded and capitalized on a defensive error, but they're gonna have to be careful of the comeback, it's likely Utd will score". Which also kinda helps the distanciation from the result: it's an absolute freak occurrence that doesn't really say much about our season, nor does it say much about Liverpool's.
 
i’d make them lie in a circle around me, their heads a couple of foot away from my feet. i’d tell them the star player from yesterday is about to get the star treatment. then i’d tell them they’re not allowed to move, just like they didn’t move yesterday when liverpool were tearing us apart. i’d then slowly spin in a circle, chanting “fan justice, fan justice,” as arcs of warm piss splattered down on their faces.
:lol: Considering all the stories that have find out from United players and ex players over the last few years, I dare say a couple of them would enjoy that as much as you!
 
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