Former Purple Devils coach Benni McCarthy believes Erik ten Hag lacks the ‘ardour’ to handle a staff like Manchester United.

The previous first-team coach, who left Outdated Trafford in June, has given an evaluation on the character of Ten Hag – who’s below growing stress after enduring a poor begin to the 2024/25 marketing campaign. His newest defeat, a 3-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur, has raised questions as as to if the Dutchman is the most effective individual to steer United.

McCarthy, nonetheless, thinks it is Ten Hag’s lack of want and keenness that fails to deliver him outcomes.

“I did not see in him that keenness I communicate of,” he instructed ZEROZERO. “He has a unique persona, a unique profile. I believe that was one of many difficulties that the staff and the gamers encountered.

“I need to be a mirrored image of my gamers. I need them to have the identical mentality, the identical ambition, the identical perspective and the identical tradition that I grew up in. For me, coaching is like being in an official match. After I was a footballer, I hated shedding once I was coaching.

“That was and nonetheless is my persona. I’ve change into increasingly more aggressive and much more so since I turned a coach. I believe it’s wholesome for my groups.”

McCarthy additionally took the time to sing Bruno Fernandes’ praises, claiming that the captain belongs alongside the world’s greatest.

“Bruno is a part of the world’s elite and has the flexibility to play for Actual Madrid. That is how particular he’s. He loves his day by day work and has that keenness I used to be speaking about. Bruno lives by that plan day after day, with ardour and arduous coaching. Diogo [Dalot] is identical.

“If among the Manchester United gamers had what Bruno and Diogo have, it might have been simpler to attain good outcomes. They each educated with unimaginable focus, giving all the things that they had. Among the others did not do the identical.

“This ended up limiting the United staff’s progress, as a result of some gamers weren’t coaching to the most effective of their means. Even in video games, the info confirmed us that some gamers have been at their peak efficiency and others just a little beneath.”

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