Eric Tin Hag.. Your guide to taming Cristiano Ronaldo without a teacher!
How did the Dutchman turn Manchester United 180 degrees?!
Since Sir Alex Ferguson's departure from Manchester United in 2013, ending 27 years within the walls of Manchester United, the Red Devils have lacked a coach of equal competence.
This is no secret to anyone, the first of them being the Manchester United fans, and when we talk about the concept of efficiency that United coaches have missed since that date, we are not only talking about technical competence.
The efficiency of problem management is the most important thing that Manchester United has lacked in recent years, and with regard to this file, many coaches knew how to create problems in the dressing rooms within the Old Trafford team, but to manage them until you get the team to safety .. This is what the team missed .
Jose Mourinho was a coach with a very strong personality and a technical legacy that cannot be ignored, and he led United to titles after walking, but his problem was that he was confrontational to the point of causing problems in many cases, this was specifically demonstrated in his problem with Paul Pogba, which Jose had on To tame it, but he preferred to ignite the atmosphere and he lost the bet in the end.. He lost his bet on Pogba, and his bet between the walls of the whole club!.
With the arrival of Eric Ten Hag at the helm of Manchester United training, everyone is waiting for what will happen in the club. The coach, who belongs to a completely different idea in football, has faced turbulent circumstances unusual even by the standards of the failures of the Devils in recent years.
Ronaldo's companions did not qualify for the Champions League, they finished the Premier League in sixth place, uncomfortable positions for his stars, worn out levels for a handful of his most prominent players, and most importantly, the "ego" of his most prominent star, Cristiano Ronaldo!
Cristiano Ronaldo.. inflated ego
The legendary Portuguese in United, was keen to leave the team in the summer Mercato in order to participate in the Champions League, his favorite tournament, which is its historical top scorer, but his unwillingness to reduce his salary, in addition to the reluctance of many senior Europeans to sign him, clearly contracted the task.
Ronaldo's trick to pressure United and Ten Hag was the absence from the team's preparatory camp, and here was a first test for the Dutchman, who had to quickly determine his position on the Portuguese.
He has repeatedly said that Ronaldo, who is absent on the pretext of family circumstances, is one of the main pillars of his project, and has confirmed that he is booking his primary place in the ranks of the Red Devils, but Ronaldo refused to return and remained stubborn.
With the end of the preparatory camp, Ronaldo appeared in the picture in the team’s last match, which is the Rayo Vallecano match, and when Tin Hag replaced him between the two halves, he left the field with a handful of United players, to force Tin Hag to publicly denounce their behavior, and the Dutchman confirms that there is no place for those who do not respect United, especially That Ronaldo had clearly objected to some of the instructions during the preparatory match.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo was hopeful about the summer Mercato, and when the last days of the transfer market began approaching, Ronaldo became tense, but it was too late, Tin Hag put him on the bench in an unusual position!
Everyone thought it was one or two matches, but the truth is that Ronaldo only started one of the team's 6 matches in the English Premier League, and this is an unprecedented number for the legendary Portuguese!
When you look at Ronaldo's condition with the team before, during and after the Arsenal and Liverpool matches in particular, and how he fused with his teammates and no longer deals with arrogance, you realize that Ten Hag managed his rebellion very brilliantly.
The most important thing is that he did it without really a teacher, no one put Ronaldo on the bench like this against his will and then won!.. So it can be said that Ten Hag gave a lesson in taming Ronaldo without a teacher.
Now Ronaldo has no better option than staying at United and taking advantage of the team's awakening with Tin Hag to position himself at the spearhead and start scoring goals. Now that this man's loss means a lot.
Two crushing defeats..then!
With his great ambition to start an exceptional season in which Manchester United returns to its previous era, but with new ideas in football, Ten Hag was surprised by two crushing defeats that started his career in the English Premier League against both Brentford and Brighton, stopping at zero point, receiving 6 goals and not scoring more than one goal. , prompted everyone to suspect the Ten Hag Project.
The protests affected all members of the team, who are these players? Who is this coach? Where is United? Is it possible for Ronaldo to sit as a substitute? How is our captain Maguire? All of these questions were quickly resurrected in the minds of Manchester United fans, who remembered that 14 years ago they were the champions of the whole of Europe. So what is all this change?
Everyone is talking about the pivotal Liverpool match by drawing the third round of the English Premier League as a match to dismiss Tin Hag, either he saves the face of the Red Devils or leaves without regret, and what is worse to enter a match with those specifications in front of an opponent like Liverpool!
The Liverpool match... an uprising that overshadowed what came before it
The most optimistic of the Manchester United fans did not expect the team to enter this entry into the match, or to play one minute of the first third of the hour in the Old Trafford match against Liverpool, especially when you know that the front line was made up of Sancho, Rashford and Ilanga with Cristiano Ronaldo remaining Locked up on the bench.
But the first third of the hour against Liverpool, from which Mohamed Salah's colleagues have not yet left, while leading Tin Hag's men to completely turn the tide, was something extraordinary.
Pressure all over the field, remarkable physical superiority, amazing performances from the young players, tight spaces in closing spaces, ingenuity in pairs, all of this framed Tin Hage's imprint in a match in which Liverpool did nothing, and he was satisfied with seeing Tin Hage running it as he wanted until the minute 90, and when Ronaldo came down in the 86th minute and the team did not need his services after securing the victory, the Dutchman had settled his two battles, private with Ronaldo, and public with the United fans.
bet on eriksen
At a time when the Danish Christian Eriksen's career was threatened with ending after the terrible injury he suffered at Euro 2020, which almost cost him his life, Tin Hag bet on reviving that march again.
Ajax affiliation Ten Hag knows what Eriksen has in his full physique. When the Dane made his comeback from Brentford last season, Ten Hag knew full well that removing some dust from the former Ajax and Tottenham talent would make her shine again.
Now everyone is looking for Eriksen on the field, his heart seems to be beating more than it was before, he controls the context of the matches and provides amazing passes to his teammates, and the other creative element in the middle of the field relieves Bruno Fernandes from many tasks, Eriksen's return to the high level was a bet Another successful Tin Hag ably.
Mercato is complicated... but!
Ten Hag was definitely waiting for his first transfer market in Manchester United, especially since he signed with United months ago and had a clear plan for the Mercato in mind.
The most important name in this plan was Frenkie de Jong, then Frenkie de Jong, and then Frenkie de Jong.
The deal was possible, given that its conclusion would have meant solving Barcelona's grinding economic problems, but what Ten Hag and Manchester United did not calculate is the player's intransigence to stay in Barcelona and not accept offers to reduce his salary even... So eyes quickly turn to another option.
That choice was none other than Carlos Casemiro, an experienced defensive midfield player in La Liga and with a giant the size of Real Madrid, who knows how to offer you the easy and the relentless, and most importantly transfer those experiences to the rest of the players next to him.
But the goal that Ten Hag refused to give up on was Anthony, the winger who trained him at Ajax, and he knows very well his capabilities that can turn things around. Once he was signed with a historic value (100 million euros), he proved his great worth by scoring the opening goal against leaders Arsenal! .
This is in addition to his bet on central defender Lisandro Martinez, who was criticized for his short stature, but little by little he proves that he deserves the main position in the center of defense, and Harry Maguire has a ridiculous past that many fans aspire to forget, despite him being the captain of the team.
By reviewing the past files, you will discover how many bets Tin Hag succeeded in proving the victory of his point of view through it, and how many ideas came into his head that proved successful despite all the frustrations? How many alternative plans did he develop to original plans that could not be implemented? And how did he turn the protests and difficult conditions at the beginning of the season into a machine that spins goals and victories?! You will know what it means to have a technical manager who has the ability to manage problems..don't just create them!.