Ten Hag has needed to take care of different robust conditions.
Proper initially of his tenure, he needed to self-discipline Cristiano Ronaldo for leaving Outdated Trafford early after he had been changed at half-time throughout a pre-season recreation towards Rayo Vallecano.
The transfer confirmed power however set in place a sequence of occasions that might finally result in Ronaldo being kicked out of the membership following an incendiary interview with Piers Morgan when he stated Ten Hag “doesn’t present respect for me”.
Ten Hag used a lunch with journalists in Spain throughout the World Cup break to clarify his pondering.
“When he’s in fine condition, he is an effective participant and will assist us obtain the aims now we have, that’s fairly clear,” stated the Dutchman.
“However he wasn’t. I needed to work with him. He selected one other approach.”
Ten Hag disciplined Rashford shortly afterwards for lacking the beginning of a group assembly by leaving the England ahead on the bench for a recreation at Wolves. Rashford scored the winner after being launched instead.
Then there was Jadon Sancho, who was placed on a private health programme after United’s teaching workers famous his bodily stats have been dropping. When he was omitted of the squad for a defeat at Arsenal in September 2023, Ten Hag cited the England man’s poor efficiency in coaching.
Sancho instantly responded on social media by saying he was being made “a scapegoat”. Sancho deleted the put up however refused to apologise.
Ten Hag by no means picked him for one more Premier League recreation and whereas he did return to the squad throughout pre-season, on switch deadline day, he went on mortgage to Chelsea.
Final season, Ten Hag needed to wrestle with a crippling damage record, on which he had not all the time acquired the most effective recommendation. With Luke Shaw match, he was advised Tyrell Malacia could be out there inside a few weeks of the beginning of February final season, so Ten Hag opted to let his on mortgage left-back Sergio Reguilon return to Tottenham.
However Malacia was quickly to undergo a serious setback in his restoration and Shaw suffered a hamstring damage at Luton on 18 February. Neither has performed a recreation for United since. Regardless of a bullish summer time assertion from the membership a few revamped medical division, at West Ham Ten Hag was with out seven senior gamers due to damage.
Nevertheless, sympathy can solely be prolonged thus far.
Ten Hag is a likeable man. On that pre-Christmas journey to Spain, he entertained the media over lunch with tales of his youth and early profession. In Los Angeles this summer time, arriving greater than an hour sooner than initially deliberate for a sequence of interviews with UK media he laughed and joked with reporters and even supplied recommendation on the most effective locations to go for espresso close to his Cheshire dwelling.
On the current Soccer Writers’ Dinner in Manchester, he hung round and spoke to journalists lengthy after he had collected his award for profitable the FA Cup.
However throughout the season, in an official capability, Ten Hag’s communication was not nice. Some members of the media have been advised by United workers that Ten Hag most popular ‘blunt’ questions as a result of he discovered them simpler to know and reply.
The issue was, the solutions, more and more, didn’t stand as much as scrutiny.
Earlier than and after the worldwide break, Ten Hag spoke about being on the “identical web page” as United’s hierarchy. However for all of the bullish phrases it has appeared to be a query of when, not if, he would go away.
One supply, who has huge expertise at a senior stage at United, was stunned Ten Hag didn’t lose his job on the finish of final season. He was incredulous it didn’t occur in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the October resumption.
However quite a few United figures, each out and in of Outdated Trafford, agreed with the sentiment that when the boulder begins to roll down the hill, it’s a matter of time earlier than it reaches the underside. Now it has.
Lots of United’s gamers will likely be unhappy to see Ten Hag go.
In April 2023, the Daily Telegraph reported, external one of many the explanation why Tottenham opted to not attempt to deliver Ten Hag in from Ajax to exchange Jose Mourinho in 2021 was as a result of they felt he lacked charisma.
There is a component of that at United.
A number of sources have confirmed there was no massive bust-up and no rising unwell feeling. However there was no connection both. A scarcity of a fundamental understanding of what Ten Hag was making an attempt to realize.
A coach however not a communicator.
