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Erik ten Haag's difficult summer has become more challenging after a disappointing 90 minutes against Brighton and Cristiano Ronaldo's bench. The hourglass is running out for the Portuguese


Short stories: the complex situation of Ten Haah and Ronaldo

Erik ten Haag's difficult summer has become more challenging after a disappointing 90 minutes against Brighton and Cristiano Ronaldo's bench.

The hourglass is running out for the Portuguese, and it is not certain that his coach has too much time to find solutions to the situation

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08/13/2022

Saturday, August 13, 2022, 11:00

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Summary of Brighton's 1:2 victory over Manchester United in the English league (Sport1)

"It was clear that in the second half we were better in midfield when Eriksen supported from the back and Ronaldo worked in the front wing, we created more chances and Rashford had two situations that unfortunately we didn't take advantage of."

This is how Eric Ten Haag, the new coach of Manchester United, tried to address the question of his contribution and integration from the bench of the Portuguese phenomenon at the end of the home loss to Brighton in the opening round of the Premier League.

"If our striker, Anthony Martial, was fit, I would use him, Cristiano has only trained with the team for the last ten days and is still not fully fit.

That's the reason why I didn't start with him in the lineup,'' he emphasized.



Ronaldo's substitution was not made immediately at the start of the second half (to which United went two goals behind), but eight minutes from the start and led to a tactical change and a positive effect on the Red Devils' style of play: Eriksen retreated back, allowing Ronaldo to be a natural part of a front three Traditional, next to Sancho and Rashford.

The improvement was immediate, with United upgrading their possession and increasing the number of chances they created.

No player wants to hope that the coach will integrate him later.

Ronaldo (Photo: Reuters)

Last Sunday's loss to Brighton was mainly deja vu and floated the forgetfulness of the opening round loss to Swansea City some eight years ago, when the false confidence built on the back of impressive pre-season games sank to the bottom again.

Hours before kick-off at the Theater of Dreams and United fans still maintained an upbeat mood, the sun was shining in the south-western part of Manchester, Old Trafford was full to the brim and they faced an opponent who had never beaten the Red Devils away.



Not so the 52-year-old Dutch manager wanted to open his Premier League term at the most stressed club in the kingdom.

The loss to the rival against Brighton (who finished the last season in ninth place in the league - a club record) not only revealed the magnitude of the managerial challenge Satan the Brother is in the midst of, but intensified the immediate need to make a decision about Ronaldo's future at Old Trafford.

The process for which Ten Haah was elected to the position, as all parties knew when the contract was signed last April for three seasons, is the fundamental restoration of the luxury club in broad aspects far beyond the results and is done on the grass and especially in the field of recruiting new players, a policy that Tan Haah personally leads.



Already at the initial interview stage, the club captains were impressed by the vision Satan the brother shared that he wanted to instill in Old Trafford and included player recruitment presentations and going down to strict details, and this was indeed the case in his first transfer window in the position.

The difficulty the club and Ten Ha'ah are facing now - less than three weeks until the end of the current transfer window in the Premier League - lies in the fact that rival clubs and senior agents in the market are aware of the degree of desperation in a team that must continue to strengthen and has comprehensive financial resources, but without the ability to lure attractive players due to the fact that it will not participate in the Champions League In the upcoming season, the most complex bone of contention regarding the issue of the Portuguese's future.

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He will need quiet and it is not certain that he will receive it.

Tan Haah (Photo: Reuters)

Despite the fact that Ronaldo himself personally approached the club's management and the manager himself several times and asked to leave, one of the senior players who played alongside him in the United uniform, club legend Rio Ferdinand, is convinced that even in the current season we will see the 37-year-old Portuguese on the lawn at Old Trafford: As a player, the worst thing for you is to start on the bench and hope the manager brings you into the game.

In my opinion, Ten Haah should have told Ronaldo unequivocally in the first match - you start, give your best half and do what you know best to do.

True, this is a player who is already beyond his prime, but we are talking about one of the greatest in history, a figure who has won the Ballon d'Or five times.

If United allow him to leave, where exactly will they get a player who will contribute at least twenty goals a season?

He won't go anywhere', he stated firmly this week after the disappointing display against the Seagulls.



Just 90 minutes into his tenure, the elder Eric Ten Haag now finds himself at a complex and unfamiliar crossroads earlier than expected when the Red Devils travel to west London to face Brentford (tonight, 7.30pm, Sport1) who salvaged a point away at Leicester in the first round.

The surprising silence of a large number of the team's veteran players on social media after the embarrassing loss to Brighton (when some of them frequently used the various platforms in the last season to apologize to the fans), gave rise to a wave of local rumors according to which Ten Haag must make an immediate and decisive decision about Ronaldo's future, before he loses The locker room trust.

The extended period of time in which the staff was in Southeast Asia and Australia during the preseason games (without the presence of Ronaldo, who was absent due to family circumstances) significantly helped the feeling of formation and unity, which significantly faded following the huge failure in the last Premier League season and the fear now within the walls of the club that the presence of Ronaldo Not only hurts the team professionally, but also socially.

Will anyone at Old Trafford accept the argument of "building for the long term"?

United players on Sunday (Photo: GettyImages, Michael Regan)

While the hourglass is running out for Ronaldo and the number of clubs that are able to add him to their ranks is decreasing, precisely the dimension of time, the rarest concept in professional football.

This is the dimension that Tan Haah focuses on when he has to navigate between the professional storm waves that accompany the saga of the actor's stay.

The Dutch manager repeated the word 'time' many times in his final interviews with the media after the loss last Sunday, mainly in the context of Ronaldo and his return to full playing fitness, but also to emphasize that the project he claims to lead at Old Trafford involves building for the long term, and understanding Deep because the desire to achieve positive results 'here and now' will have to involve the patience of all the parties involved in the theater of dreams.

Precisely now, when the Red Devils want to correct the negative impression from the disappointing debut cycle, Ten Haah must make a brave and informed decision that will not only achieve the best for his team's professional success on the field,

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