Ineos are showing the ambition to return Man Utd to the top of the tree in English football but Erik ten Hag isn't matching it with his own comments.
Off the pitch at Old Trafford there is the unmistakable sense of ambition in the air. After more than a decade of stagnation under the Glazer family, Sir Jim Ratcliffe is in a hurry to start turning Manchester United back into Manchester United.
Head coach is going to be a more likely title as Ineos settles on a structure more commonly associated with clubs on the continent. They have finally found success at Nice this season and they aren’t the only Premier League owners or investors trying to wean English clubs off a system that hands significant power to the manager.
Not only were United outplayed and outthought at the Gtech Community Stadium, but Ten Hag’s public comments are starting to sound out of kilter with the ambition being aired by Ratcliffe, both in public and in private. Instead, excuses have become a regular occurrence at United press conferences and the claim on Saturday night that Manchester City had similar trouble with the Bees was the latest example. It sounded like an attempt to buy United some leeway, but it was patently untrue.
That was during a run of 12 defeats in 14 Premier League games for Brentford but, according to Ten Hag, they should have had more. That might be true, but that night wasn’t one of them. Maybe Ten Hag’s comparison with the City game was intended to offer praise to Brentford and it’s certainly the case that they've had some games where performances have made recent results look like an anomaly. But it was a clumsy way of trying to make the point and only served to sound like another excuse being offered for a desperate United performance - something that is happening all to often of late.
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