Erik ten Hag is NOT the problem at Man United, even Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp would sink in this mess
In an exclusive column for talkSPORT.com, Mark Goldbridge explains why he's still backing Erik ten Hag despite Manchester United's nightmare start to the season and outlines why it was a mistake to get rid of David de Gea.
Erik ten Hag appears to be safe at Manchester United for now and I’m not surprised by that at all. Any talk of wanting him out is wrong because there are bigger issues at the club right now.
United fans are not going after the manager and people outside of our supporters might not understand that. I think the job's too big for any manager right now. If you put Carlo Ancelotti, Diego Simeone, Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp in there, then they'd sink because it's such a mess.
If you go after the manager, like we did with Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ralf Rangnick, then who do you get in?
What United needs is a very big overhaul of the team from top to bottom. And then if a new owner comes in and says, I don't like the vision of Ten Hag and sacks him, I think the fans would go, all right, okay, it's a new start.
But it just cannot happen under the Glazer regime because we've been there before. The recruitment's poor, the sales are poor, the club's in debt, and the Glazers treat the club like a franchise. That’s the huge problem that needs fixing.
Erik ten Hag got things wrong against Galatasaray
I want Ten Hag to succeed at Manchester United, but he did get things wrong in that defeat to Galatasaray in the Champions League with how he set the team up
The balance of the team, I thought, was really bad. Harry Maguire or Jonny Evans aren't the long-term solution, but you could have played one of those and shifted Victor Lindelof to right-back, Diogo Dalot to left-back, then Sofyan
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