I actually highly doubt that Manchester United is going to find themselves at the top of the table towards the end of the season. I genuinely doubt that because the coach has definitely tried a lot to bring in good results. He has tried different tactics, but nothing seems to actually work. And at this point, if Manchester United fans actually do not understand that the coach is just not as good as they are thinking, I have to say it is Copium. They need to change the current coach that they have. But for some reason, it feels like they are just too dumb to accept the fact. Of course, there are always going to be problems in the squad. But that does not mean their results are going to be that bad.
When he was still at Ajax, Ten Hag was really good, especially when he first started coaching Man Utd, he showed good results, but this season, Man Utd's performance is really bad, he really seems to have failed to build a good team, especially since Man Utd's management has had issues quite annoyed with the results that Man Utd has obtained in the last few matches. Changing the coach might be the best option, just look at Tottenham's performance, when they dare to take big action by training a replacement then their performance is quite good at the moment, but is there a strong candidate who can train Man Utd to be better than now?
I think Manchester United is making progress and they are showing better performance than they had before because Manchester United had a bad situation at the start of the season and especially the new players they bought were really disappointing Onana was an example and that's why we even saw some news about De Gea returning to this team because of the mistakes we saw from Onana. But time after time they have better performance and maybe if they make some changes during the winter this team can even have better performance than they have right now.