In a revealing perception into Manchester United’s latest struggles, former assistant coach Rene Hake has steered that some gamers have been reluctant to heed the teaching employees’s directions throughout his transient spell at Previous Trafford.
Hake, who joined the membership final summer season as a part of an INEOS-led reshuffle of the teaching setup, labored alongside new supervisor Erik ten Hag earlier than being proven the exit door shortly after the Dutchman’s sacking in late October.
Talking to Dutch publication AD, the 52-year-old defined that whereas some gamers, resembling Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes, have been receptive to the employees’s strategies, others have been extra resistant to alter.
“[Rashford and Garnacho] have been quickly open to engaged on timing their runs from deep,” Hake mentioned. “With Bruno Fernandes, it was so much about selecting a place in our build-up.”
Nevertheless, the previous Go Ahead Eagles coach added: “However generally, gamers mentioned, ‘I desire to not change something in my recreation in the intervening time’, and you must settle for that.
Hake’s feedback present a uncommon perception into the challenges confronted by United’s teaching employees in implementing their tactical imaginative and prescient, with the membership’s long-standing want to recapture the profitable tradition of the Sir Alex Ferguson period seemingly at odds with the mindsets of sure gamers.
The skilled coach additionally praised the affect of Casemiro, describing the Brazilian midfielder as having “an antenna” and the power to “already sense what will occur on the sector” when it mattered most.
Regardless of his transient tenure, Hake appeared to carry no ailing will in the direction of the membership, stating: “I don’t maintain a grudge. I labored nicely with the gamers, employees and different personnel. I mentioned goodbye to everybody to finish it nicely.”
With United at present sitting thirteenth within the Premier League and making ready for a vital Manchester derby in opposition to rivals Metropolis on Sunday, the revelations from Hake could increase additional questions concerning the squad’s willingness to totally embrace the modifications launched by Amorim and his teaching staff.
