I'm sure there is a stats site somewhere that can give us solid data but off the top of my head, he's given almost everyone excluding the goalkeepers a fair chance no?
Off the top of my head:
DDG (Henderon no chance given)
Dalot/AWB both featured under Rangnick
Maguire/Linelof/Varane (when fit) featured under Rangnick
I'll give you Bailly, can't remember him playing under Rangnick
Jones, I'll let this one pass without a comment
Shaw/Telles, both featured
McFred/Matic/Pogba/Lingard/Fernandes all featured heavily
Elanga/Rashford/Ronaldo/Sancho all featured
Unless I'm missing anyone obvious, I think everyone has played significantly enough under Rangnick to counter the "oh why is X not playing instead of Y", thats disregarding injuries as well.
The issue is that badly performing players suffer no consequences. We have players like Maguirre claiming he's playing well because he isn't getting dropped - clearly the players aren't getting the message. There is no reason to believe that we would be any worse off if Rangnick dropped players after bad performances, we have been far too shit for that to be possible.
We don't really know this for a fact. He's basically been given a terrible squad and been asked to do anything he can with it.
In the majority of matches I've seen we make counter-productive decisions in player positioning and substitutions. We are not able to deal with the opposition's tactical changes, and often end up overwhelmed. Now the players could work a lot harder, and some of it is probably down to player performances, but some of it is also definitely on the manager and his staff as well
Not to be pedantic but Ole lost at home, with 1 goal more.
Hence worse performance wise and not results wise.
I don't think anyone was expecting us to challenge with only 3 or 4 quality signings. Our squad bar Ronaldo wouldn't get on the bench for City/Liverpool. I know its a tough read but we have to be honest with ourselves, who do you take from United and put him on City/Pool's bench? Not even saying starting 11, just the bench.
Who said anything about competing against City and Liverpool? We're not even capable of top 4 at this point - and that is with two world Cup winners, one of of the greatest players of all time who can still get you a hatrick at the age of 37, and seasoned internationals with finals under their belts.
It depends what his job requirements were. If it was get top 4 at all costs, he would have been given authority to sign at least 1 or 2 players in January. It was clearly stated when he was signed, he was signing for 6 months only. He's here to assess the problems and provide input to the new manager.
I hate to point out the obvious, but he could have done that without being the manager. I'm not necessarily negative towards that part of his job, it could prove very beneficial long term to land ten Hag and replace most of these players, what I do have a problem with is that people seemingly think there is no way anyone in the world could do better than what Ralf has done. Personally I'd rather see Ten Hag come in sooner rather than later so that he can begin work on fixing this mess before this lot go on vacation.
Ralf is a talker and has always been one. His credentials as a DoF are well documented and impressive, but as a manager it's not been great. Truth is we have a sub-par manager with a MLS level coaching team leading a sorry lot of mentally weak and physically unfit players who probably should not have been signed in the first place.
I just hope that this mess will give the board the incentive to give Ten Hag everything he needs, both in staff and player recruitment, because that is the only way this season will have any value going forward.
