{"id":616340,"date":"2022-08-15T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=616340"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:30:27","slug":"erik-ten-hag-squad-in-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/15\/erik-ten-hag-squad-in-ruins\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag Leaves Manchester United Squad &#8216;In Ruins&#8217; as Punishment for Embarrassment in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/man-united-dressing-room-row-24756278\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Samuel Luckhurst<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0of the Manchester Evening News,\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/15\/manchester-united-jamie-vardy-leicester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> squad was called into their Carrington training base by manager Erik ten Hag for training the day after their embarrassing\u00a04\u20100 loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/15\/manchester-united-changes-erik-ten-hag\/\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a>\u00a0in London,\u00a0despite it originally being a day off for the players. The squad were reportedly left &#8220;<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">in ruins<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8221; by the session, according to a source.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>\u2018In Ruins\u2019: Manchester United Manager Erik ten Hag Forces Runs Training Session After Humiliating Loss to Brentford<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A dressing room row erupted between <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mufc<\/a> players days before the Brentford debacle <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sJLpubnmlh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/sJLpubnmlh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Samuel Luckhurst (@samuelluckhurst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samuelluckhurst\/status\/1559111446704840705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Players Made to Run by Erik ten Hag Following Another Defeat<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Manchester United manager decided to haul his players in for extra training at their Carrington base in the wake of their disastrous 4-0 defeat in London. After branding the performance &#8220;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/08\/13\/erik-ten-hag-slams-man-utd-players-after-brentford-thrashing-17179112\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">rubbish<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;, the players found themselves running a total of\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-11111115\/Erik-ten-Hag-calls-Man-United-flops-extra-training-Brentford-defeat.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">eight-and-a-half miles<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to make up for Brentford covering that same distance more than his team during the West London mauling.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Erik ten Hag wanted to make Man Utd players run 13.8 kilometres during extra training session today because Brentford players ran 13.8 kilometres more than them yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G1RyOZA1mx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/G1RyOZA1mx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SPORTbible (@sportbible) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportbible\/status\/1558827334957932546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils&#8217; boss arrived early at training, before leading an inquest into the latest disaster to rock his side. The thrashing in Brentford followed an opening day 2-1 defeat at home to Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, which has left them bottom of the Premier League after the opening two games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/15\/all-parties-confident-adrien-rabiot-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Confident About Signing Midfielder<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What Needs to Change<\/h3>\n<p>The Red half of Manchester <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/sport\/article\/manchester-united-frenkie-de-jong-transfer-saga-2022\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have patiently pursued<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/12\/barcelona-frenkie-de-jong-decision-imminent\/\" target=\"_self\">Frenkie de Jong<\/a> all summer, who appeared to be their <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastluisteren.nl\/ep\/Kick-off-met-Valentijn-Driessen-United-overweegt-Gakpo-kost-helft-van-Antony\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">priority signing<\/a>. However, with the Dutchman no nearer to moving to Old Trafford, Ten Hag&#8217;s men have seemingly turned the majority of their attention to signing French international <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1558718565347258368?s=20&amp;t=eVN-0Ct9xSv378xwwtYpXg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrien Rabiot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Following back-to-back defeats, United are in desperate need of reinforcements. They have been linked with\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.substack.com\/p\/man-utd-made-the-right-choice-on\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cody Gakpo<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/soccer-transfers\/story\/4716993\/man-united-withdraw-interest-in-bolognas-marko-arnautovic-sources\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Alvaro Morata<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0with goals becoming hard to come by so far in addition to their leaky defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After the 4\u20100 loss away to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/mikkel-damsgaard-brentford-sampdoria\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Brentford<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Ten Hag reiterated his desire for new signings when he told\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nCxYXdqBPUM\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sky Sports<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: \u201cI think we need new players. We need quality players and we are working on that. We will do everything we can to bring them in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It remains to be seen what players will join the Dutchman&#8217;s revolution, which has gotten off to a less than ideal start.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Samuel Luckhurst\u00a0of the Manchester Evening News,\u00a0the Manchester United squad was called into their Carrington training base by manager Erik ten Hag for training the day after their embarrassing\u00a04\u20100 loss to Brentford\u00a0in London,\u00a0despite it originally being a day off for the players. The squad were reportedly left &#8220;in ruins&#8221; by the session, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":616353,"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":[30,18,3],"tags":[4315],"class_list":["post-616340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-erik-ten-hag"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616340","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}