Diogo Dalot is enjoying the new dynamics brought by the meticulous Erik ten Hag as Manchester United’s players seek improvement rather than redemption after a difficult season.
Fresh from finishing runners-up in both the Premier League and Europa League, the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane last summer fuelled optimism around Old Trafford.
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But things swiftly unravelled as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer departed and interim successor Ralf Rangnick floundered as United stumbled home sixth with a record low Premier League points tally.
Ten Hag was coaxed away from Ajax to oversee the rebuild and has quickly made a mark on the side, which is currently in Australia continuing pre-season preparations in Melbourne.
“It’s very good,” United right-back Dalot said. “I really like the dynamic that he shows, not just in training but in general.
“Very demanding, pays a lot of attention to detail, which is good, and small details that that can make a difference in the long perspective.
“I think we players are adapting really well to it and obviously we want to keep going.
“We know that it’s going to be a long season, a different season from pretty much every season that we had in the past few years, so we want to we want to build something.
“We want to build a team together with players, together with staff, build something very good inside in between us and then do our job on the pitch and win games.”
Ten Hag is largely working with the same group of players that struggled last season, when the performances were as jarring as the results.
Dalot appears to have compartmentalised that disappointment as attention turns to kicking on and helping United to a first trophy since 2017.
“It’s a reflection of learn the things that we should not have done and take it to this season as a lesson to improve,” the Portugal international said.
“But obviously we have a lot of new things – we have new staff, a new manager, new energy as well, which is good for us so we want to keep going.
“We want to look at this season not in a way to redeem ourselves from the last season but to start a new season from scratch from zero.
“Then hopefully we can, like I said, get to the end celebrating, which is our main goal for this season but thinking that we have a lot of steps first and we have a lot of improvement.”
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