Seems Rangnick wasn't wrong about an open-heart surgery?
He wasn't. I said it time and time again. He's not a good manager, but he was right about a lot of things at the club, especially with the type of players we had and the type of football the hierarchy aims to play.
Off the top of my head: DDG, Dalot, Maguire, Lindelof, Jones, McTominay, Fred, VdB, Rashford, Sancho, Martial
That's a list of 9 first teamers or rotation options and 2 invisibles (Jones + VdB) that are simply not good enough for the level this club wants to reach. These players either underperformed under Ralf and he saw them for what they were, or they haven't been performing for a very very long time, or constantly kept ignoring manager instructions.
I remember Liverpool away when he said about the first goal, something along the lines of "we had agreed not to have the CBs push up so that no space is left in behind for the other attackers to run into. 1st goal, Harry Maguire does his usual "I got this" shit, pushes up, leaves the space behind. Goal."
Replacing 9 first team players/rotation options is indeed open heart surgery. The Glazers didn't have the money to do it, so our hierarchy binned RR off. ETH should've talked to him for what its worth, otherwise what the was the point of the entire 6 month RR reign.