Hello?! You don’t fire the coach of the month for November!
I hope he stays at United forever.
Although I’m actually focusing too much on him here. The question must be allowed: what are the players actually thinking, what are they doing? What they have put together is no longer worth it and that only partly has to do with ten Hag’s tactics/style of play.
The coach is paid, among other things, to ensure that the players perform.
So even that is ultimately on him.
It’s far too simple and one-sided for me. United have had some well-known coaches like Mourinho, van Gaal, Rangnick and now Ten Hag for many years now and it was the same under every coach.
At some point you should perhaps question whether it was really always the trainer’s fault.
I don’t think anyone is saying that it was *only* the coach’s fault. But the fact is that you can’t change the team completely, especially not outside of the transfer window, but you can replace the coach as often as you want. This usually makes the decision trivial.
But trivial is not better or correct. And I doubt you can replace them as often as you would like given the salaries that the men at United earn as managers.
I said yes, it’s too easy for me. Could have also written “too trivial”.
The Athletic wrote a few weeks ago that it would cost United around £15m to sack ten Hag. Of course it’s not a small amount, but with a transfer loss of €150 million (220 million the year before) and total personnel costs of perhaps €350-400 million per year (guess, Bayern had €385 million last year), it’s not a huge investment. But of course, you can’t do that every 3 months, I agree with you.
Whether with or without ten Hag, the squad will certainly have to be massively restructured again, by the summer at the latest. In the two CL games against Bayern we saw that there is a real difference in class between the two teams.