Troubleshooting Ten Hag Deserves Praise for Turning Things Around in the Face of Immense Pressure At Manchester United

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It is extremely rare in the circus that is Manchester United for things to be quiet. For the social media feeds not to be whirring with the latest exacerbated problem, or a former player airing out his grievances getting things off his chest, ushering fans to react by furiously running to the keyboard slating how the club is being run. 

But, that’s exactly what is occurring. There hasn’t been a league game in three weeks with two postponed out of respect for the Queen’s funeral taking place, and United head into a Manchester Derby strangely with a sense of cautious optimism.

Things looked extremely bleak in the wake of that harrowing, horrific 4-0 loss at Brentford. It felt like a seismic moment, the pitchforks were out for Erik ten Hag and United incredibly early. The New York Times screamed ‘An English soccer giant is on its knees’ it was hard to disagree.