This is also a test for Ten Hag.Sid wrote: ↑1 year ago Yeah - so he's entirely focussed on training, not transfers etc. Thing is he won't get 8/9 players in one window that are used to modern football and mouldable, he'll get 2/3 tops. So he's going to have to work with established pros with big egos like Shaw, Rashford, Maguire etc and try and get them on board - for a season at least. I can see lots of drama.
The big test for the club is to not wilt if/when the players start briefing against Hag and we start seeing stories like the players don't respect McClaren, Hag can't hack it at a big club etc.
Will he stick to the proven useless crap i.e. Shaw, Lindelof, Bailly, Martial, Rashford... fuck me, there a lot of players, can't type them all.
If he does, the signs are he's no better than the previous managers who've repeated this same insanity.
Either way, we can only really critique him after the results. I'll take a regression if there are CLEAR signs that there is a major change.
I didn't see anything under Rangnick's tenure although there wasn't much he could do.