Ralph Rangnik says he had to give up his style of pressing in three games in his interim tenure at Old Trafford after realizing that Manchester United’s players are unable to do so.
United faced Crystal Palace on Sunday for the last game of Ranknik, which he leads, before Eric ten Haag replaced him. This will mark the end of a weak season, which could lead to seventh place, which would mean United play in the Europa League next season.
“We just realized it’s hard,” Rangnik said of the pressure. “We did not have pre-season training, we could not develop physically and raise the level of the team. I am the one who is most disappointed in this and disappointed in it. “
Rangnik believes that United have failed to adapt and many players were not fit enough to play in the style of high press – one is Cristiano Ronaldo, who will probably miss Sunday’s game with a thigh injury. “Cristiano scored a few goals, but again Cristiano – and I don’t blame him at all, he did great in those games – but he’s not a pressure monster. He’s not a player – even when he was a young player – he wasn’t a young player who was crying, shouting, “Hurray, the other team got the ball, where can we win balls?”
“The same with a lot of other players, so we had to make some compromises at one point, maybe we did a few too many – that’s also possible – but, as I said, we didn’t find the right balance between what we need and ball and without. ”
Rangnik blamed himself for failing to turn things around after replacing Ole Gunnar Solskjor in December, winning 11 of his 28 games at the helm. “I’m more than self-critical,” Rangnik said. “I had to do better. I expected that my coaching staff and I could develop this team in a more sustainable way. We couldn’t and not only the players have to be blamed, we have to be ourselves. We all could and should have done better.
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“But to play such football, you need all the players in their best possible positions who can play like that. You can’t blame the group here because they are not signed on the basis of: “How do we want to play, do we want such football?” If you look at City or Liverpool and the changes over the last six years, all signed players were on the premise [Klopp] or Pep [Guardiola] wants to play? ‘ That should happen here in the future. “
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