Ex-Leeds boss Marsch on Man Utd: The cohesion in the club was next to ZERO
Jesse Marsch has laid bare the cultural problems his mentor Ralf Rangnick encountered at Manchester United, saying there was 'zero cohesion' between different parts of the club.
The American coach, who spent a year in charge of Leeds United, worked as Rangnick's assistant at RB Leipzig and describes the Austrian as his 'professor'.
Rangnick served as Man United's interim manager in the 2021-22 season following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but struggled to make any impact.
Marsch has told Simon Jordan's Up Front show he heard first-hand from Rangnick and others how far things had gone downhill at Old Trafford.
They're precisely the kind of problems Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS have vowed to address following their £1.3billion investment in the club.
'I think he knew he was going into the lion's den but he couldn't turn down the opportunity to coach Manchester United. This is a massive opportunity for anyone,' Marsch said.
'He didn't play classic Ralf Rangnick football, that was one thing I was a little bit surprised of.
'He felt early on that it wasn't going to be easy with that group of players to play the kind of football that he wanted.'
After Jordan suggested standards had 'deteriorated dramatically' at United in the decade since Sir Alex Ferguson retired, Marsch agreed with his assessment.
'What I heard from Ralf and others that were there at the time is that the cohesion in the club was next to zero,' he said.
'That their communication with the scouting departments and the sporting departments and the directors and that made them feel there probably wasn't much of a future for them there, which maybe that was the case.
'But again with any club and especially the best, this idea of the pressure from within for everyone
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