After another defeat for an injury stricken Manchester United in Munich, you would be forgiven for feeling the dangerous sense of de ja vu swirling around the club. This run of results is not dis-similar to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s last season, and a familiar theme seems to be emerging.
The manager many fans sought after 2 years ago is now the one they want gone, at least that’s what social media says. The style of play is being questioned, and the hashtags of ten Hag out have began to appear on social media.
Will we ever learn?
It seems we won’t. 6 games into a new season and the fans are ready to start fresh. They want that new shiny toy for a brief dopamine hit, knowing they’ll look to throw that away in two years time when they get bored. Everyone wants success in football these days but nobody wants to go through the pain it takes to get there.
Progress is not linear, especially not in football. To succeed, you have to fail. To grow, you have to evolve. Manchester United under Erik ten Hag are trying to evolve but just like a newborn baby, they’re experiencing teething problems. What happens when you push through that pain as a baby? You grow foundations.
The team under Jose Mourinho was built for defensive football. The team under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was built for transitional football. Erik ten Hag is trying to pick through that mess to create his own picture, but the canvas is not clear enough to begin painting yet. There’s still pieces of two old pictures that haven’t yet been cleared.
Doing the same thing time and time again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. We can keep sacking every manager we hire after a period of bad results, or we can back them through it and see where they take us.
Manchester United fans have to know it will get worse before it gets better. A process is a process. In today’s world, nobody has patience. It’s all now now now, but that won’t be how United rise from the ashes. Erik ten Hag is building something here. You can see it briefly in games. Flashes of brilliance, overshadowed by a weak core mentality. There’s players at the club who shouldn’t be, and some of them played tonight.
Some of them played 10 minutes as a sub but wouldn’t bust a gut to track back after losing possession. Some of them played the Playstation at home, because their attitude wasn’t good enough to make the plane to Munich.
Strap yourselves in for a long season. You can choose to stay on the Erik ten Hag train or look for your new shiny toy that you think thrives under an ownership who set everyone up to fail. I know which side of history I want to be on, do you?
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