{"id":296085,"date":"2023-12-05T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=296085"},"modified":"2023-12-05T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:25:00","slug":"how-man-united-dressing-room-turned-toxic-after-fergie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/how-man-united-dressing-room-turned-toxic-after-fergie\/","title":{"rendered":"How Man United dressing room turned toxic after Fergie"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> How Man United dressing room turned toxic after Fergie: Brutal Van Gaal was hated by his players, Mourinho clashed with Pogba and Solskjaer&#8217;s legendary status counted for little\u2026 So will Erik ten Hag suffer a similar fate?<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Erik ten Hag has reportedly lost the support of half his Manchester United squad<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dutchman risks the same fate as so many of his predecessors at Old Trafford<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Manchester United have snakes in their dressing room, players who are not running. Bruce, Robson, Keane would never allow this &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir Alex Ferguson understood the vital importance of controlling the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary boss told Harvard Business Review: &#8216;If the day came that the manager of Manchester United was controlled by the players &#8211; in other words, if the players decided how the training should be, what days they should have off, what the discipline should be, and what the tactics should be &#8211; then Manchester United would not be the Manchester United we know.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the same interview, Ferguson hinted that clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester City had changed managers so many times the players had total control of the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It creates power for the players &#8211; that is very dangerous. If the coach has no control, he will not last,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>When Ferguson spoke in 2013, the year of his retirement, he had no idea how prescient those words would be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78593029-12827427-image-a-57_1701778277412.jpg\" height=\"700\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sir Alex Ferguson signed off with another Premier League title in 2013 but the decade since has been a rocky road for Manchester United and their managers\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78593027-12827427-image-a-58_1701778313194.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Now Erik ten Hag is feeling the heat amid reports he has lost the trust of half his players\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78593025-12827427-image-a-59_1701778330474.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s results and performances have been well below standards so far this season<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>This was the man who once demanded the Glazers double his salary to preserve his dressing room authority after Wayne Rooney was put on \u00a3250,000-a-week.<\/p>\n<p>And while Fergie did rule with an iron rod, he also delegated to trusted senior players to ensure the squad self-policed itself.<\/p>\n<p>A decade on and United have become the Chelsea or City that Ferguson gently ridiculed.<\/p>\n<p>Since he went after nearly 27 years in the job, they&#8217;ve got through David Moyes, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the odds on Erik ten Hag joining them on the Old Trafford scrapheap are shortening with every defeat and each risible performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Toxic&#8217; has become a byword for the atmosphere behind the scenes at United and reports claim Ten Hag has lost the support of half his squad because of his management style.<\/p>\n<p>All the gains made by Ten Hag&#8217;s ruthless approach last season are fast unravelling. United haven&#8217;t convinced all season and stand on the brink of a European exit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594351-12827427-image-a-69_1701778482724.jpg\" height=\"452\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>David Moyes really was on a hiding to nothing when he succeeded Ferguson in 2013<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594391-12827427-image-a-70_1701778548318.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s aura seemed to evaporate the moment Ferguson stepped out of the building\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are barely scraping Premier League wins against opponents from the lower reaches, let alone looking capable of going toe-to-toe with the big guns.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frankly astonishing they&#8217;re only five points off the top four having lost six of their 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s 1-0 loss at Newcastle &#8211; their 10th of the season overall and one in which they were completely outplayed &#8211; has opened Pandora&#8217;s box again.<\/p>\n<p>Half the dressing room has apparently been lost, players are unhappy with the style of play and &#8211; in what is an ongoing theme at United &#8211; are unhappy at being made to run so much in training.<\/p>\n<p>There are grumbles about Ten Hag&#8217;s man management and a general sense of disillusionment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s remarkable how quickly things have turned sour for the Dutch coach after a strong first season but we&#8217;ve been here before in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Player power has seized control of the Old Trafford dressing room post-Ferguson and unless there&#8217;s a dramatic turnaround, it usually only leads to one thing.<\/p>\n<p>David Moyes, the &#8216;Chosen One&#8217; who replaced Ferguson in 2013, really was on a hiding to nothing and ultimately saw out just 10 months of a six-year contract.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78593033-12827427-image-a-71_1701778575048.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Louis van Gaal&#8217;s hard-headed approach quickly lost the support of United&#8217;s players in 2014<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/17\/78607579-12827427-image-m-3_1701797516159.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal&#8217;s tactics and instructions to not shoot first time didn&#8217;t go down well with the players<\/p>\n<p>He was let down by failures of recruitment and the fact United&#8217;s aura seemed to evaporate the moment Ferguson stepped out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Moyes didn&#8217;t help himself with fatalistic comments such as claiming Liverpool were &#8216;favourites&#8217; when they visited Old Trafford and that City were at &#8216;the level we are aspiring to.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget the &#8216;we&#8217;, United, had won five of the last seven Premier League titles.<\/p>\n<p>Moyes didn&#8217;t really have enough time to lose the dressing room as bad results quickly put paid to his tenure. But things were truly &#8216;toxic&#8217; under Van Gaal.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most uncompromising managers in the game, with absolute pig-headed faith in his methods, Van Gaal saw no reason to change when at United.<\/p>\n<p>Really it&#8217;s remarkable he lasted two seasons and signed off by winning the FA Cup, given the dressing room had long since been lost.<\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal ran his players ragged with double or triple training session during pre-season in 2014, ensuring an injury pile-up, widespread fatigue and United&#8217;s worst start to a season in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594483-12827427-image-a-76_1701778749479.jpg\" height=\"419\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Van Gaal&#8217;s relentless training methods left the players exhausted before the 2014-15 season<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594525-12827427-image-a-78_1701778790428.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman hardly endeared himself with his ruthless approach to flagging up mistakes<\/p>\n<p>He scrapped the usual Monday day off following a Sunday fixture, instead forcing his players to re-watch the game on video as he brutally called out their mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>The tough love only served to shatter confidence and it led to senior players Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick asking Van Gaal to go a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>His response to this was to send the video clips on e-mail, even fitting a tracker which ensured the players opened the messages.<\/p>\n<p>United did get some notable results but their style of football was a major turn-off, with too much sideways passing, while instinctive players such as Rooney were told not to shoot first-time.<\/p>\n<p>Bad signings such as Memphis Depay and Angel Di Maria further ruined harmony and the relationship was beyond repair by the mid-point of Van Gaal&#8217;s second season.<\/p>\n<p>This left him a lame-duck manager with the respect of his players long since lost. If he even had their respect in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The Mourinho era started with trophy success and a lifting of the Van Gaal &#8216;straitjacket&#8217; but it didn&#8217;t take Nostradamus to predict that everything would eventually blow up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78593035-12827427-image-a-79_1701778820247.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jose Mourinho clashed with Paul Pogba and others during his rollercoaster time in charge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594623-12827427-image-a-80_1701778938702.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mourinho seemed to make a scapegoat of Luke Shaw, shattering the defender&#8217;s confidence<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho&#8217;s approach was to call players out when they underperformed with Luke Shaw, Anthony Martial, Eric Bailly and others on the receiving end of his sharp tongue.<\/p>\n<p>By the time of Mourinho&#8217;s third season, a toxic atmosphere pervaded the club from top to bottom with the players frightened to do anything wrong in case they got a verbal blast.<\/p>\n<p>He famously clashed with \u00a389million club record signing Paul Pogba with a frosty exchange on the training ground in September 2018 captured by TV cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho&#8217;s problem was that Pogba had influence in the dressing room and it was soon poisoned against the manager.<\/p>\n<p>Player power prevailed when Mourinho was sacked that December after certain players clearly stopped trying for their manager.<\/p>\n<p>It spoke volumes when Shaw drove into training and gave a thumbs up to photographers the day Mourinho was axed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Sanchez posted an Instagram Story driving into Carrington soundtracked to Hans Zimmer&#8217;s song from <span>Gladiator<\/span>, &#8216;Now We Are Free&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594693-12827427-image-a-81_1701779026873.jpg\" height=\"406\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bad results and a toxic dressing room put paid to Mourinho&#8217;s United tenure in December 2018<\/p>\n<p>Club legend Solskjaer restored smiles to faces with what was described as a &#8216;cultural reset&#8217; and a superb sequence of results won him the post full-time.<\/p>\n<p>But the goodwill his status at Old Trafford bought quickly corroded away when results turned bad with 2019-20 a real season of two halves for United.<\/p>\n<p>Matters improved and the feel-good factor was restored until the beginning of 2021-22 when the decision to sign Cristiano Ronaldo forced Solskjaer to rip up all his best-laid plans.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of a clearly defined style troubled several players, likewise Solskjaer&#8217;s loyalty to under-performing players when results went downhill.<\/p>\n<p>Bailly, for instance, was upset that Harry Maguire continued to get the nod even when not fully fit. The likes of Jesse Lingard and Nemanja Matic were unhappy with their treatment.<\/p>\n<p>When Ronaldo lost his faith in the manager, the writing was on the wall given his all-powerful influence. While publicly insisting he backed Solskjaer, his agent Jorge Mendes reportedly caused trouble in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer&#8217;s handling of David de Gea was another issue even if the introduction of healthy competition in the shape of Dean Henderson was surely a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire&#8217;s promotion to captain also rubbed some players up the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Solskjaer was given the boot after a shocking 4-1 loss at Watford in November 2021, he&#8217;d long since reached the point of no return.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78593023-12827427-image-a-82_1701779055894.jpg\" height=\"376\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ole Gunnar Solskjaer did restore the feel-good factor before everything unravelled for him<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/12\/78594733-12827427-image-a-83_1701779136961.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The return of Cristiano Ronaldo (left) forced Solskjaer to redraw all his plans for the season<\/p>\n<p>Interim boss Ralf Rangnick can&#8217;t be said to have lost the respect of the dressing room because he never really had it.<\/p>\n<p>So now we find Ten Hag on the same shaky ground as so many of his predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>He has tried to restore standards and was ruthless in ousting Ronaldo 12 months ago. Maguire, Jadon Sancho and De Gea have also discovered how it feels to get Ten Hag&#8217;s cold shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>But such calls have to be backed up with good results and progress. 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