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It was entirely appropriate that Manchester United put in another saggy and disinterested performance to mark the last day of the Premier League season, perfectly reflecting their previous 37. Crystal Palace’s 1-0 win was no great surprise; this was an end-of-term performance from a team that surely already knows that it’s going to be torn to pieces and rebuilt during the summer.
The only mildly surprising aspects were that United somehow remained in sixth place in the Premier League, and the level of the lethargy when some players really should have been fighting for the right to stay in the new manager’s thoughts ahead of the summer break.
Erik ten Hag was at Selhurst Park on Sunday afternoon, and there was even a little time after the match for things to turn a little, well, ‘Manchester United 2021/22’, when Ralf Rangnick confirmed in the post-match interview that he still hadn’t been introduced to his successor, even though they were both at the same ground.
Considering that Rangnick has been steering this ship for more than half the season and will be staying at the club next season in a consultancy position, this was…surprising, but Rangnick didn’t seem that bothered either way, and the fundamental truth of Manchester United at this exact point and time in their history is that almost everything about the club requires improvement.
Ten Hag was back flickering across our screens the day after the match when he took his first press conference in his new position. There was little controversial to be seen in this first English press exposure. Ten Hag didn’t march out in front of the press holding a Pep Guardiola voodoo doll and proclaiming that “we’ll see who the real bald fraud is now then, shall we?” (more’s the pity, some might add) and he didn’t come in holding one of Harry Maguire’s…
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