Legendary United manager Sir Alex Ferguson laid out his three steps for management in his booking ‘Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United’ and, although it’s still very early days, Erik ten Hag looks to already be following them. Well, two out of three at least.
In May, Ten Hag became the fifth permanent manager in the nine years since Ferguson bowed out of the game, amid a sense of pessimism and apathy around Old Trafford.
United had just registered their worst ever Premier League campaign and things looked increasingly bleak. Yet, the hiring of such an exciting coach allowed people to quickly move on.
But the grey clouds gathered once more as a transfer window that heralded a grand rebuild started slowly, only then for Cristiano Ronaldo – the club’s top scorer and best out-fielders by some distance in a dismal campaign – to reveal he wanted to leave. Could things get any worse?
Well, at long last they finally started going in the opposite direction in July as the new faces began to arrive and fans got to see the progress that Ten Hag has already made.
This story is from the July 31, 2022 edition of MEN on Sunday.
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