Between Mourinho's legacy and Rangnick's heart surgery.. Goodbye Manchester United
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Nothing new or old is coming back at Old Trafford.
Remember that famous conference of Jose Mourinho on 18 March 2018 following the Champions League exit by Sevilla? Of course you remember!
"The football legacy", a sentence that became a popular slogan in the world of football after 12 minutes and 25 seconds of Mourinho's best performances, summarized the situation of Manchester United in Europe in two words, with some attacking the Portuguese for it and viewing it as insulting the history of one of the continent's largest clubs.
What about the conference of Ralph Rangnick, the pre-current team coach Eric Ten Hag, who was supposed to be with him as a consultant but mysteriously gone, that conference last April that described the situation in Manchester as a patient with an open heart surgery!
The German then took a heavy attack and focused solely on the team's lackluster offers to use strong terminology to diagnose United's defects, which he said plastic surgery would not be enough to treat, and that everyone at the club should join hands and work together to build the team.
The German coach was realistic and said that what Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp did at City and Liverpool was not only a coaching act, but a whole bunch, and did not come out as light-chested as Ten Hag did last July when speaking at the duo and said that each step had an end.
I'm not here to attack Ten Hag and hold him responsible for an ongoing breakdown since Alex Ferguson's departure after just two games, but only holding him responsible for his satisfaction taking charge in those circumstances and with those people and players.
I bet if I was a Manchester fan or neutral that with the first look of the Brighton encounter and I watched Fred and McTominay's double, and Luke Shaw and Harry Maguire in defence, I realized that nothing new or old was being restored, that the current season was on track to be a replay of its predecessors, and that what Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had done by reaching second place in that group. "Spichal One" is a really big achievement, not an exaggeration from the Portuguese coach.
The verdict after two games on Ten Hag's experience of failure would be an overstatement of expectations, but as it is said: "The answer knows who his title is", and the title of Manchester United whether with Ten Hag or his predecessors or who will succeed him if the "Open Heart" is not performed will be "Bye Manchester United."