Every new signing we kid ourselves saying "this new player will help Ten Hag play how he wants" or words to that effect. But every new player comes in and makes no difference to how we play. Why can every other team play the football they want to play, to varying quality across the league, but we cannot? I am someone who likes Ten Hag but I suspect he struggles with the Premier League. He may end up in the Bundesliga or another league and do well in the future, but after 5 transfer windows and a bunch of new players he does not know how to get us to play.
I get the argument some have about maybe the players are just not that good. Maybe, but they are not woeful players and at the end of the day, this is ETH's team and his players. On paper we are obviously not good enough to win the league, but at this point no-one is expecting that. Our players are better than the performances and league position show, though.