{"id":613452,"date":"2022-06-07T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613452"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:14:04","slug":"conflict-ten-hag-ralf-rangnicks-manchester-united-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/07\/conflict-ten-hag-ralf-rangnicks-manchester-united-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The Conflict With Erik ten Hag That Led to Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Manchester United Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypmuB94YFx4\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has revealed that conflict with Erik ten Hag led to Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Manchester United exit. The pair, according to Romano, had too many different ideas, and so a mutual agreement was reached that the now Austria boss <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/29\/manchester-united-austria-boss-ralf-rangnick\/\" target=\"_self\">would leave before assuming his two-year consultancy position at the club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Manchester United Exit: Different Ideas to Erik ten Hag<\/h2>\n<h3>What Erik ten Hag Has Accomplished So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Erik ten Hag has only been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/07\/chelsea-manchester-united-rb-leipzig-defender\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> job for two weeks, and yet he has still accomplished a great deal. Although Rangnick was only there as manager on a temporary basis, the progress of his term at Old Trafford has arguably already been eclipsed by that of his Dutch successor, who is the poster boy of United&#8217;s cultural revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The former Ajax boss has done a lot behind the scenes already. First and foremost, prominent members of Rangnick&#8217;s staff Chris Armas and Ewan Sharp have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/manchester-united-ten-hag-rangnick-24162561\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both left the club<\/a>. The duo had a poor reputation when they moved to Old Trafford, and neither has been able to rectify that during their brief stay in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>In part of an overhaul to recruitment, an area specified by Rangnick as one where United needed to improve, Andy O&#8217;Boyle was recently hired as deputy football director.<\/p>\n<h3>Rangnick Focusing on Role in Austria<\/h3>\n<p>The former United boss&#8217; official reason to leave the Theatre of Dreams to focus on his role with the Austrian National Team full time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ralf Rangnick leaves Manchester United \u201cdue to the demands of his new role as Austria manager\u201d, club statement announces. \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy mutual agreement, Ralf will now focus solely on his new role and will not be taking up a consultancy role at Old Trafford\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ETrjwR0Fy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9ETrjwR0Fy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1530903818665349120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He made quite the start to his job there, with an emphatic 3-0 win over Croatia, although his side were then subjected to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Denmark just days later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/07\/real-madrid-100-million-midfielder\/\" target=\"_self\">Real Madrid<\/a> defender David Alaba spoke to The Athletic regarding his country&#8217;s new manager: &#8220;He has been really good.\u00a0You can see we have a really good plan and you can see it works for us on the pitch. He doesn\u2019t want us to let the opponents breathe air. It is good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has revealed that conflict with Erik ten Hag led to Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Manchester United exit. The pair, according to Romano, had too many different ideas, and so a mutual agreement was reached that the now Austria boss would leave before assuming his two-year consultancy position at the club. Ralf Rangnick&#8217;s Manchester United Exit: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3312,"featured_media":613453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[4315,1475],"class_list":["post-613452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-manchester-united","tag-erik-ten-hag","tag-ralf-rangnick"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}