Man United coach calls on his players to change their behavior .. and refuses to comment on the Casemiro deal
Dutch coach Eric Ten Hag has called on his new team Manchester United players to change their behavior on the pitch, after last weekend's severe defeat in the English Premier League against Brentford by four goals.
And before the very difficult confrontation expected on Monday in the third stage of the Premier League against rivals Liverpool, Ten Hag will have to raise the morale of his players and push them to make double efforts if they want to avoid a third defeat in a row at the beginning of the season.
And the former coach of Ajax needed only two official matches to discover firsthand the depth of the crisis that United has been going through since the retirement of legendary Scottish coach Alex Ferguson in 2013. Ten Hag collided with the bitter reality of the 20-times champion, by losing the first two games of the new season from the “Premier League”, The first at home against Brighton 1-2 and the second Saturday at Brentford Stadium with a clean four, his last record in the first 36 minutes.
Thus, Ten Hag became the worst start for a new coach at United in more than a hundred years, while United were bottom of the league table for the first time in 30 years.
Of course, "I was certainly not happy," the Dutchman said today. "The basic things have to be good and it has to start with the right behaviour."
"You need a fighting spirit on the pitch and I didn't see it from the first minute (of the Brentford match). The players didn't play well, and a lot of things were bad. You shouldn't talk about anything (tactical) when the behavior is not right."
With the league reaching its third stage, United have so far been unable to bring in more than three new players: Danish Christian Eriksen, Argentine Lisandro Martins and Dutchman Terrell Malacia, all of whom are unable to achieve the desired revolution.
And instead of stealing the spotlight with high-caliber contracts, United made the headlines for deals that did not happen, and we are talking about Dutch midfielder Frankie de Jong, whose Spanish team Barcelona reached an agreement from the English club regarding him, but the former Ajax player refused to move to “Old Trafford”, and the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, who applied to leave the club, but the latter refused to release him.
It seems that United will finally succeed in attracting a big name, with talk of reaching an agreement to include Brazilian midfielder Casemiro from Real Madrid, in a deal that may reach a total value of 70 million euros.
On Friday, Tan Hag refused to comment on this deal, but he stood by the American Glazer family that owns the club, which is under attack from fans against the background of the contracting policy and the situation the team has reached.
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