Manager’s apparent frustration with coaches and medical team strikes an intriguing tone with the club rebuilding
. The manager seemed to take aim at Marcus Rashford, Casemiro, Jonny Evans, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Mason Mount who all played the first half of the pre-season friendly in Trondheim, the 15 academy outfield players deployed throughout, his coaching staff, his medical department plus, inadvertently and clumsily, himself.
A standout line is “as an individual you must make sure you are fit”. By not citing who exactly has returned from their off-season break with a metaphorical paunch, Ten Hag has allowed suspicion to fall on every player . It is curious, too, because physical conditioning should presumably have been discovered through preliminary medical tests conducted since the group began returning to work the previous Monday, as well as by observing who wheezed through training.
More than anything, Ten Hag’s verbal volley feels needless. Certainly at face value. To lose 1-0 to a Rosenborg side 16 games into their domestic season via an added-time winner in what was United’s first pre-season outing with a finishing XI that contained no recognised first-team squad members seems a bagatelle. Yet beyond the regulation demand to keep players on their toes, Ten Hag’s words may signal a valid frustration.
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