Erik ten Hag has been at Manchester United for almost two years now in a torrid time for the soccer club and one of the biggest brand teams in world sport.
MUFC is a name known worldwide not just in soccer but in all sport. Their performances under their current manager Erik ten Hag this season so far has been terrible, here is Jamie O’Hara’s scathing analysis of his latest performance this weekend just gone:
“What do you make of what Erik ten Hag had to say after the match? Well, look, he’s, you know, fair play to him. He’s a manager of a football club, so he’s going to try and pick out the positives of the season so far. He says four clean sheets, which they’ve had, right? They’re against Fulham, Palace, who can’t score, who can’t hit a barn door at the moment, and Barnsley. Alright, today, Aston Villa, you get a draw away from home, you know, and they, they couldn’t, they didn’t quite make it happen, but it’s been the worst start to a Premier League season ever for Manchester United, and he’s sitting there trying to say, ‘Well, we know we, you know, we can take positives from it.’ There are no positives to take from Manchester United’s season so far.
They’ve got eight points. I mean, they are miles off it. They played against the Villa side today who, in my opinion, at a lull from a Champions League night, they look near, didn’t they? They look like they had a massive game against Bayern Munich, put everything into it, you know, the fans and everyone were behind it, and you see it so many times. You play the week, you play at the weekend, and you have a dip in form, you have a dip in performance, and that’s what, and that’s what I saw today. And you know, we, we were hoping or thinking that Ten Hag wouldn’t allow that to happen, but it does happen.
You see it so many times. You see it every season after Champions League nights, and Manchester United, they dug out a result and they got a draw, but we are talking about Manchester United here, one of the biggest teams, if not the biggest team in the world, and they picked up eight points from the start of the season, and we’re sitting here not talking about how, you know, Erik ten Hag should be in a job. Like, it’s not been good enough. They’re nowhere near good enough, nowhere near it.
Chelsea’s manager comes in, brings in new signings, new players, new manager, and bang, they get off flying. We’re two years down the line with Erik ten Hag, and he’s still talking about a process and still talking about what they need to do and where they want to go. Well, I haven’t seen anything in two years, nothing in terms of them being a better club and moving forward. So we’ll see.
He’s probably going to stay in a job, you know, he said that he’s got the backing of the board. I guarantee you we get to the next international break, we’ll sit here and we’ll say we’ll have the same conversation. Well, we’ll book your taxi now, um, will, will the United hierarchy be looking at clubs like Chelsea have appointed Enzo Maresca and it’s going very nice, thank you, albeit, um, they didn’t win against a good Forest side today, and will they be thinking we could be doing better than ten Hag? I think yeah, I look, I think eventually, you know, the board will have to look at it and say, ‘Can we do better than what we’ve got right now?
Who’s that manager, who’s that guy to maybe take us in a different direction? Where do we want the club to go?’ You know, you’ve seen Sir Jim Ratcliffe come in, but they are what, 14th in the table? Come on, you know, like, they’re, you know, it’s not good enough. We’re talking about Manchester United here, you know, and you’re talking about a start of the season where, you know, he was already under pressure, and you look, fair play to him, he won the FA Cup against the Manchester City side who didn’t turn up on the day, but we were already having these conversations about, you know, Erik ten Hag, and we thought, ‘Benefit of the doubt, he’s won the FA Cup, give him next season, let’s see what happens.’ They’re going to back him, but no one was convinced that we were going to see a different Manchester United, and it’s exactly what we’ve seen.
They got eight points at the start of the, what, nine points last season, now they’ve got eight points, so they’ve got, you know, they’ve got worse, right? They, they have not improved, and you judge a manager, they’re not a cup team. Manchester United, they need to get back to challenging for the title, and they are a million miles away from that over a 38-game season. That’s how you judge your team. Final thoughts first of all on, on Manchester United, we, we’re going to see, after the international break, do you think?
I don’t think if there was a manager out there that was ready to come in, you’ve gotten this, all right? I’d make a change. It’s a worst start of a Premier League season they’ve ever had, and he sits there and talks about we’ve had four clean sheets. We’ve also conceded three against Porto, three against Tottenham, three against Liverpool.
You haven’t been good enough. They’re not good enough, Manchester United, to get to the level where they need to be, for me, is not going to be under ten Hag. We they can have another five games, and I guarantee you we’ll be sat here in a month’s time having the same conversation, but it’s just whether they want to make that decision now. They’ve got a point today, a decent point away from, you know, away from home. I just don’t see how we, you know, this is going to go carry on going forward with ten Hag.
It’s just, I just don’t see it. I just don’t see it. The, the fortune changing, if you said to me in, in, in six weeks’ time that I’m going to see a Manchester United side playing brilliantly, really good football, confident, they all look like they want to be out there, um, you know, Erik ten Hag on the side of the pitch with a bit of passion, and then yeah, you know, I’d say you’re dreaming because it ain’t going to happen.
We’re going to see the same Manchester United performances that I’ve been seeing for the last two seasons. Just a quick one on what he said about Rashford. He said one of the reasons he took Marcus Rashford off was he thought he might get a red card. Yeah, look, Rashford doesn’t look like he’s enjoying his football, and he’s a dangerous player for Manchester United.
Had a couple of chances today, cuts inside, gets his shot away, you know, and I really like Rashford. I do. I think he’s got so much potential to be, you know, a top, top player, but it just his body language just doesn’t seem to be right at Manchester United. I feel like he’s always waiting to get taken off, and he gets frustrated, and look, you know, he, he could have gone today, so the manager has to make that decision for the team.”
The above interesting considering Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is open to a return to the club.
As a possible manager again — can’t be much worse than what is happening at the moment.
