Not gonna lie, I'm pessimistic as feck that this season's a writr off already and Ten Hag is massively out of his depth. So let's go, what has he got right, and what can we be optimistic about that he's going to put us on the right path.
What decisions has Ten Hag got right since joining?
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I like the switch to the 4-3-3 if we're ever getting close to playing modern football
Malacia looks like a good signing and he is at least trying to bring in a world class midfielder.
I don't like this game. Can we play "what has he got wrong?" instead?
Turning on him already. Never change Caf'.
Oh feck off. Anyone who’s been watching us the last 2 years can see it’s these players that are the problem, not him.
maybe if he had a competent board to back him in the transfer window there wouldn’t be so many of these useless twats on the pitch right now eh?
maybe if he had a competent board to back him in the transfer window there wouldn’t be so many of these useless twats on the pitch right now eh?
To quote the Ralf gang: He has exposed a lot of these players.
Probably thought he was going to get players to suit his system - FdJ, Antony and Timber.
It’s like asking Pep to manage Derby County, he can ask them to play out from the back and play Tiki Taka but on match days they’d get slapped every week. Our players are absolutely shite.
I can’t believe people are still blaming managers do you know anything about fecking football?
It’s like asking Pep to manage Derby County, he can ask them to play out from the back and play Tiki Taka but on match days they’d get slapped every week. Our players are absolutely shite.
I can’t believe people are still blaming managers do you know anything about fecking football?
Didnt sign Arnautovic
After 10 years of watching this - of course it is the manager 
Very little. It was worrying when he didn't immediately get rid of the likes of DDG, Dalot, Ronaldo when he asked to leave. In fact Andreas Pierra is the only player we have sold this summer.
That right there is why we are in a relegation scrap. We have been in relegation form since February.
That right there is why we are in a relegation scrap. We have been in relegation form since February.
Ah yes, another midget defender.
Two games into 38, how would you judge what he's got right or wrong ?
Imagine after all the shit these players have served up you still blame the manager
Joke of a thread
Impossible to judge ten Hag, the club though…
Ok. Martinez (prioritising centre half over other areas at least if not him personally), McFred, Bruno/Eriksen/Fred in midfield away to Brentford, not noticing the issues with De Gea, not noticing the issues at right back, not meeting with Rangnick to discuss now shit the squad is last season.
I want to have faith that we have the right man to turn us around, at least that would be something, but on every juncture I'm scratching my head how he's got things this wrong.
I guess Malacia doesn't look total shite, but not sure back up left back was not necessarily something I felt needed sorting immediately.
feck off blaming the manager. This squad is broken and the club is run by a bunch of fools. It is a long, painful road back that needs to start with a clear out.
Signing Malacia
Let’s not forget it’s the same players who got 2 other managers kicked out of the club. How many times will we blame the manager and not the players?
How is the manager to know de gea is going to throw one under his body into the net and then play a suicidal pass for the 2nd goal?
To be fair, DDG is shit at distribution and if Ten Hag payed attention to this hed start Henderson.
Shot stoppong isnt everything, no chance whatsoever that DDG fits a ETH system long term. His days are numbered in this era.
Every thread about managers needs to be banned until we stop falling into this trap. Prime Ferguson would fail here
After 10 years of watching this - of course it is the manager
Oh it's absolutely the Glazers, Woodward, Murtough and Arnold. Anyone that doesn't realise that is clearly a massive fecking spanner.
But in the context of a club that gets absolutely every football decision wrong, there's a fairly strong possibility that that might also include the manager who that collection of idiots hired. After all, they get everything else wrong. Why would they hire the right guy?
There's an awful lot of telling me to feck off, but I'm yet to see any real arguments to suggest what Ten Hag has done to suggest he has a grip of how fecked we are and isn't also contributing to the problem.
I mean, if he'd watched any videos of De Gea at any point in the last 5 years he'd have seen he's prone to the odd howler and can't play out from the back. Not only is today not an outlier, it's just totally expected.
I don't think he's got anything horrendously wrong. On paper I think he's picking our best lineups, more or less. Which is massively worrying when you see how out of their depth this lot are in terms of physicality and mentality on the pitch. Yes you can quibble with one or two things, Maguire, Eriksen deep in midfield, but the lack of drive all over the pitch from these players means it is not about one or two positions.
Has he got the transfer window wrong? Maybe, possibly, who knows what his priorities were and what the club have delivered to him, or how good his current signings will prove to be.
Has he got the transfer window wrong? Maybe, possibly, who knows what his priorities were and what the club have delivered to him, or how good his current signings will prove to be.
Hes learning on the job
Not the Maguire one that's for sure.
The FDJ obsession might also cost him.
The FDJ obsession might also cost him.
Biggest mistake was giving the players another clean slate. Not that it matters, the club wouldn't have found appropriate replacements for them anyway.
At least he wasn't involved with the alien vomit coloured kit I guess.
The players threw Mourinho, Ole and Rangnick under the bus. Its the players.
Which manager is honestly going to do much better under these circumstances? Really?
Not wearing a coat in this heat
None of these players will do well elsewhere. they’re as unprofessional as they come. Shae getting outrun for their goal is just the icing in the cake. He is so far out of his depth it’s laughable. Shouldn’t be near the club. So so many players are sub standard. No manager would get a tune out of them now. None.
A lot of people saying you can't blame ETH because the players are shite when he's the one coming out with stuff like "developing what you have" and "they finished second so they're not that bad".
So it was a mistake of Ten Hag to give them a clean slate and another go? Indeed, to be so utterly dismissive of his predecessor's assessment that the players were shite he refused to even meet with him?
Because, yes, I agree, expecting anything else from this lot is absurd. Which is a big reason why I'm so worried that Ten Hag apparently thought differently.
The fact he joined this shower of shit is a huge tick against him to be honest. Have to question his judgement.
What would you rather he said? He’s said clearly we ‘need’ to improve the squad during press conferences. There’s nothing to be gained in criticising your existing players publicly as a new manager.
Can we feck off from blaming the manager. This place is so toxic and clowns jumping on the manager already just highlights what. Set of fans we have.