I was wondering how long it would take for Erik ten Hag to become the center of attention in the press, because when he was at Manchester United he constantly made speeches, gave interviews about every problem and controversy and showed a lot of optimism even when the scenario was disastrous, now he's back:
Eric Ten Hag needs some time to adapt to the Bundestag, the players are not the players he has coached before, and since most of them are not world class players, he will need some time to get everything right so as not to start any relationship issue with some players that may affect his performance at the club because people are just waiting for him to flop in order to justify their claims that he was the problem of Manchester United then.Quote
Bayer Leverkusen coach Erik ten Hag: “The agent of Xhaka can say whatever he wants, but this club has already let three important players go, and we won't let any more go”.
“Granit is a leader, he still has three years left on his contract here”, told RP.
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The season hasn't started yet and he may have started making statements to the press early. I hope it's not the same as when he was at Manchester United, where he started with losses in friendlies and then came his interviews in which he complained about players and the relationship with the players became terrible, then he made terrible signings.
Now at Leverkusen, he already had a defeat in which he conceded 5 goals in the friendly match. In 5 days, he will have another friendly match against Bochum, who were recently relegated from the Bundesliga. If he loses, it will be terrible for him.
The first preseason match they lost should not be used to judge his performance because people are already using that first match to judge that he isn’t a good coach, but time will come when we will know how good the coach is.