Erik ten Hag | Currently unemployed

"United players say they are unable to understand Ten Hag's instructions and want an English manager"
These newer generation players call themselves tech savvy with instagram and onlyfans but they dont even know google translate. The education system has failed all of us
 
Is Bravo Sanchez available? Sounds exotic! What’s his record like?! :D

Impressed as manager of Celta Vigo before securing a move to Fiorentina where he helped them win their first cup trophy in years. A move to Lyon followed and after more cup triumph he became Watford manager. It ended in failure after just 17 weeks and he now manages Valencia and has them going steady in the Europa League.
 
United need real leaders, some clear ones like individualists and real workers. Then that mix of players must have time to develop. The problem now is that I can not really see who the real leaders are, says Schweinsteiger.


- But scared? No. I was more scared under Ole Gunnar Solskjær since I then never knew what we got. Yes, United could win games then too, but it was often because of individual performances and not so often because of the team. There was something missing at the base then.

I also think that Erik's team, with the ball, will be much more exciting to watch than Ralf Rangnicks United is. The key, however, is what I have already mentioned - he needs players who are not selfish, players who put the collective first.

- Now, when everyone in United does their job and follows the game plan, it looks very good, but they are not mentally strong enough to complete it through 90 minutes.

- Rangnick's system is really quite simple. It's about pressure and then scoring less than six seconds after winning the ball. The problem in United is that there are individual players who like to have six seconds with the ball alone before they center it further, says Schweinsteiger.
Not a top red, nor Ole inner :smirk:
 
Article says ETH camp have concerns he may not get it due to experience. It says we’ve spoken to poch already - there would be no fee involved as PSG willing to let him go. A third manager has also been interviewed - not Enrique or Lopetegui…so who is the mystery candidate!?
Not a chance do PSG let Poch walk for free.

If anything they'd probably take a big compensation fee then sign ETH themselves :lol:

It's all paper talk i'm sure of it. Poch can't have been impressing us recently at his time with PSG. If that's how he handles a big club in a 1 horse race?
 
Now you know why the players want poch instead. Lazy fecks.

Imagine his first training session with half our players screwing up 5 yard passes and rashford running into brick walls and not tracking back.

That first training should be telecast live on mutv :lol:.

Why would they want Poch if they are lazy? He’s the last manager you’d want
 
Now you know why the players want poch instead. Lazy fecks.

Imagine his first training session with half our players screwing up 5 yard passes and rashford running into brick walls and not tracking back.

That first training should be telecast live on mutv :lol:.
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Poch will be more amenable to player power.

By most accounts Pochettino isn't amenable at all. I don't understand why some are trying to paint Pochettino in a way that is opposite to everything we know about him, he is a disciplinarian, he expects to be the only boss and acts like it. Which could explain why he has been more comfortable with younger players, it's similar to someone like Van Gaal.
 
It’s good to have information about football as a fan but I feel like these days we get way too much. Every bloody step of this process is being narrated like it’s a bad movie. Bring back the days where shit happened and we could enjoy being surprised then got a chance to read about the details after the event.
 
It’s good to have information about football as a fan but I feel like these days we get way too much. Every bloody step of this process is being narrated like it’s a bad movie. Bring back the days where shit happened and we could enjoy being surprised then got a chance to read about the details after the event.
Fr. All the info is useless. If they sign or not, we'll find out for certain in a matter of weeks anyway. Football journalism exists to almost no benefit
 
Article says ETH camp have concerns he may not get it due to experience. It says we’ve spoken to poch already - there would be no fee involved as PSG willing to let him go. A third manager has also been interviewed - not Enrique or Lopetegui…so who is the mystery candidate!?
Hassenhuttl or Potter
 
It’s good to have information about football as a fan but I feel like these days we get way too much. Every bloody step of this process is being narrated like it’s a bad movie. Bring back the days where shit happened and we could enjoy being surprised then got a chance to read about the details after the event.
Yes many times I think about this. Social media and news leaks nowadays kills the excitement and gets us closer and closer to the possible occurrence.
 
Media is desperate for it to happen, he made a lot of friends in his Spurs days. Just hope this isn't coercion from the club.
Honestly there is no chance the BBC is going to be influenced by United to back one option over another.
 
Honestly there is no chance the BBC is going to be influenced by United to back one option over another.
It's the first option then. Poch's stock has taken an almighty hit since the CL final in 2019.
 
It's the first option then. Poch's stock has taken an almighty hit since the CL final in 2019.
Or Cateret Analytics think Poch would do better in his first season at United compared to ETH, thereby disagreeing with many posters!
 
By most accounts Pochettino isn't amenable at all. I don't understand why some are trying to paint Pochettino in a way that is opposite to everything we know about him, he is a disciplinarian, he expects to be the only boss and acts like it. Which could explain why he has been more comfortable with younger players, it's similar to someone like Van Gaal.


Not sure about Disciplinarian, near sure widely reported he quite loose with players regarding time keeping etc, likes to give them responsibility and freedom to make the right choices, that is exactly which this squad doesn't need.
 
Or Cateret Analytics think Poch would do better in his first season at United compared to ETH, thereby disagreeing with many posters!


Heard about the attacking football be better than Hags and knew it was a puff piece :lol:
 
Or maybe the ABU's want poch because of obvious reasons.
Absolutely, they defo do not want to see us get our own version of Pep/Klopp. Not saying ETH guarantees that but Poch completely rules that scenario our for another 3 years.
 
Not sure about Disciplinarian, near sure widely reported he quite loose with players regarding time keeping etc, likes to give them responsibility and freedom to make the right choices, that is exactly which this squad doesn't need.

He isn't loose at all, it's quite the opposite. We are talking about a guy that instated mandatory greatings and handshakes for his players and staff. In fact at both PSG and Tottenham, the first thing that he demanded were discipline and respect.

The one guarantee that you have about Pochettino is that he isn't loose.
 
Says it all that we are considering two entirely different options - one a system manager with a clear philosophy, the other a man manager with no discernible identity or style of play. Madness that shows we are no way near finding a winning structure until someone comes in and demands it.
 
Says it all that we are considering two entirely different options - one a system manager with a clear philosophy, the other a man manager with no discernible identity or style of play. Madness that shows we are no way near finding a winning structure until someone comes in and demands it.

It's interesting because I suspect that you have ten Hag as the system manager and Pochettino has the manager without a discernible identity. If my assumption is correct then you are wrong. Ten Hag is the one that you will have more difficulties to link to a system because he has tweaked things heavily for all the different teams and groups of players at his disposal, while he has a core philosophy that can be linked to Cruijff, he isn't as dogmatic as Pochettino.

Now Pochettino is the one that is more tied to a system. His ideal formation is a 4231 and the base of his tactics has always been to rely on a high line, regaining possession high and trying to score quickly. Now his weakness has remained the same, it is that if his team can't capitalize on early turnovers, they struggle a lot when it comes to create chances against set defenses or low blocks which leads to high and sterile possession rates.
Pochettino is the one that has a very clear formula and it also leads to a constant since his Southampton days, his teams have a high floor and relatively low ceiling.