Manchester United's 2023/24 campaign went from bad to worse on Monday night with a 4–0 defeat away at Crystal Palace.
As expected, the resulted led to renewed calls for Erik ten Hag to get the sack but not everyone is convinced that the Dutchman is to blame.
A fan who goes by the name of GigabyteHKD laid the case in the manager's defence on Reddit: "I don't really understand this argument of ETH out or that ETH doesn't know what he's doing.
"A manager doesn't just go from knowing about football to not knowing about football because they moved clubs unless maybe he had a traumatic brain injury on the way over.
"ETH knows football, he has tactical awareness and a plan and is also a qualified manager which is more than most people are in regards to football/football knowledge — he at least deserves that credit.
"But he can't literally make the players do the right things unless we clone him 10 times and reverse the age and also genetically modify his athletic profile so he's some kind of hive mind football team.
"Realistically, our players are s*** and mid-table worthy, most of them don't walk into any top four club, maybe even outside of the Premier League.
"Yes, he wanted some of them but also inherited a whole lot of them, the few he wanted aren't performing very well but the MAJORITY of what he inherited isn't either.
"It's incredibly telling that Ratcliffe made instant moves to get the best in class leadership team around ETH as basically his first move, it wasn't to sack ETH, also his recent message about the untidiness of the club shows he's seen there's a rot here.
"ETH knows football, the club/staff are the problem and let's see how he does once this is addressed."
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