Erik ten Hag remained intact in a growing list of managers heading to Manchester United when he was sacked on Monday, reflecting a period of instability that has characterized the club since Sir Alex Ferguson slipped out of control 11 years ago.
Ferguson’s unrivaled 26-year spell in power transformed United into a giant, winning 13 Premier League titles and two UEFA Champions League trophies. Following him was always a difficult task, but United found it difficult to recapture Ferguson’s achievements and instead have been chewed up and spit out by various managers since. Although some managers have been luckier than others over the past decade, most have left Worn Trafford recording some old lows in the club’s history, meaning the club’s meandering path to leadership is likely to shake up any other few twists and turns before to get there.
As the search begins for Ten Hag’s successor, here is a list of the managers who have led the process since Ferguson’s escape.
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6. Erik ten Hag
Archive: 128 video games in price; 70 wins, 23 draws, 53 losses
Trophies: EFL Cup (2022-23), FA Cup (2023-24)
The recent partial could sink Ten Hag’s score here, but the optimism of his first season in value seems a year too long. Problems arose briefly in his second season, when United bore the brunt of building the failing team, something in which he played a major role. Their skills on the field did not offer a successful strategy either: they leaked goals in an extreme season, conceding an exorbitant amount. number of shots and at a time before his career, he struggled to achieve objectives. Although he racked up two cups throughout his magic, he also recorded the club’s lowest ever end to a season in the Premier League and ensured they had their worst start to a season in 35 years with three wins in his first nine games. this season.
5. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Archive: 168 video games in price; 91 wins, 37 draws, 40 losses
Trophies: none
In the post-Ferguson era, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has curiously lasted longer as United manager, but even later it always felt like a stopgap measure. The club oscillated in and out of the race for the Premier League’s top four and his work always seemed like it would be held on by cotton wool, providing few lasting moments of happiness throughout his tenure. That includes failing to win a single trophy in three years, the only manager to have progressed more than one season at United without doing so.
4. David Moyes
Archive: 51 video games in price; 27 wins, 9 draws, 15 losses
Trophies: none
History is probably kinder to David Moyes than it used to be when he was sacked in April 2014, not until the next generation when he became Ferguson’s hand-picked successor. He was obviously unable to govern the process, recording overall and final problems until he was overtaken by Ralf Rangnick and ten Hag, respectively. That said, he was also the first in a series of managers to suffer the consequences of a poorly structured club, someone who had almost relied solely on Ferguson’s abilities to secure leadership of the sport.
3. Ralf Rangnick
Archive: 29 video games in price; 11 wins, 10 draws, 8 losses
Trophies: none
Rangnick used to be the only one in each of United’s interim periods in the last decade, more than four games, the position was necessarily his soft launch as a consultancy position that he planned to book for any other two years. However, things were not consistent with the plan at all. Under him, United finished sixth and recorded their worst overall problems in Premier League history. He acknowledged that the club’s problems were with squad building, but his fifth match was a plethora for either side to opt to leave the consultancy position at the end of the season. Rangnick’s magic at United doesn’t describe his coaching career, especially considering he was right in the team’s roster, but it only prolonged the instability that had long hung over United.
2. Luis van Gaal
Archive: 103 video games in price; 54 wins, 25 draws, 24 losses
Trophies: FA Cup (2015-16)
Louis van Gaal, the first manager to win a trophy at United since Ferguson, steadied the ship until Moyes’ tenure ended badly. Even going forward, his two years at Worn Trafford were not particularly notable: the team finished fourth and next fifth in the Premier League during his year there and did not get past the round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League. In his second season, United also recorded their worst overall performance since the 1990–91 season, scoring just 49 goals in 38 league games. Like Rangnick, this is not a criticism of Van Gaal’s popularity, but it certainly wasn’t his greatest achievement either.
1. Jose Mourinho
Archive: 144 video games in price; 84 wins, 32 draws, 28 losses
Trophies: UEFA Europa League (2016-17), EFL Cup (2-16-17)
Anyone has to finish first by default, so José Mourinho lands here soon to win the club’s biggest trophy in the post-Ferguson period: the name of the 2016-17 Europa League. He followed that up with a second Premier League final in the nearest generation, but like many of the managers who came before him and grew up alongside him, the great times were fleeting. He was sacked in December 2018 after overseeing the team’s worst start since the 1990-91 season, offering a repeat of Mourinho’s infamous third-season syndrome and possibly signaling that his days as an elite manager are behind him. back. . Although United’s tenure did not negate their previous achievements, Mourinho finishing on the first park is a criticism of the club’s post-Ferguson strategy. The highs and lows were not just about a plethora, the lows sometimes broke records and the duration ended in a poisonous word that left a bitter taste in the mouth in some way that, from time to time, defines the post. -Ferguson’s length at United.
