When do ‘truths’ become ‘brutal home truths’? When you can pretend that the Man Utd manager has said something controversial…
Revelations
When The Sun roll out the ‘REVEALED’ tag, it’s a tell. It might as well just say ‘BOLLOCKS’ because it invariably is.
And so as Manchester United prepare to face Burnley in the Carabao Cup, it is REVEALED that…
‘Why winning trophies will STILL not make Man Utd boss Erik ten Hag happy as he continues rebuild project’
Why oh why? Is it because Ten Hag is not a child and will not consider his job at Manchester United done just because they win a Carabao Cup? Is that STILL difficult for some simple people to understand?
The answer of course is that Ten Hag was not talking about trophies at all, but merely answered a question about whether he is ‘satisfied’ with his start at Manchester United with the following:
“I always say satisfaction makes you lazy.
“I am happy with the way the players perform and the fact they play as a team with the right spirit and the right mentality.
“But there is always a battle to keep that progress going. It means keeping the high standards.”
If you read those incredibly anodyne quotes – made two weeks ago in Jerez, long before the Burnley game and any talk of trophies – and immediately thought ‘ERIK TEN HAG admits he can’t get no satisfaction – even if he starts lifting trophies’ then congratulations, for you too could work for The Sun, complete with 57-year-old cultural references and bizarre BOLLOCKS REVEALED tags.
You can’t handle the truth
And if you think those words constitute ‘brutal home truths’ then you could be working for GOAL…
Erik ten Hag has warned his players 😳
— GOAL News (@GoalNews) December 21, 2022
Click through for those ‘brutal home truths’ and you find that ‘Ten Hag insists Man Utd are still ‘far away’ from a return to the top’.
Did he have to ‘insist’? We suspect that the journalists who spoke to Ten Hag in Spain two weeks ago did not need much convincing that Manchester United are not actually really close to returning to the top echelons of English football.
The clues are very much there: Manchester United are fifth, 11 points behind leaders Arsenal and approaching six years without a trophy. Those are not ‘brutal home truths’; they are just, well, truths.
ZZ bottom
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