{"id":335,"date":"2021-01-08T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times.kaizenhighschool.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2022-11-26T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T19:33:47","slug":"ralf-rangnick-the-perfect-solution-to-the-catastrophic-structure-of-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times.kaizenhighschool.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/08\/ralf-rangnick-the-perfect-solution-to-the-catastrophic-structure-of-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralf Rangnick: The perfect solution to the catastrophic structure of Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013,Manchester United have tried&nbsp;vainly&nbsp;to copy&nbsp;the astonishing Scot&#8217;s&nbsp;direction&nbsp;for fulfillment. It had been&nbsp;a&nbsp;direction that&nbsp;yielded 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups and two Champions Leagues, including the most important unmatched English treble in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Ferguson&#8217;s successor at United, David Moyes&nbsp;wasn&#8217;t&nbsp;upto&nbsp;the quality. Neither were coaches of the pedigree of&nbsp;Louis&nbsp;van Gal or Jose Mourinho,&nbsp;not to mention&nbsp;the underqualified Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.&nbsp;however&nbsp;not&nbsp;solely&nbsp;as a result of&nbsp;their own individual shortcomings;&nbsp;more importantly because Manchester United were stuck in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elite&nbsp;fashionable&nbsp;soccer&nbsp;clubs&nbsp;don&#8217;t seem to be&nbsp;run by&nbsp;one manager.&nbsp;they&#8217;re&nbsp;exactly&nbsp;structured&nbsp;just like the&nbsp;efficient&nbsp;multi-billion-dollar businesses&nbsp;they are, with&nbsp;specialists&nbsp;in relevant positions. United had not been&nbsp;ready to&nbsp;evolve and adapt&nbsp;to the present. And&nbsp;whereas&nbsp;they have spent around a billion&nbsp;pounds&nbsp;on transfers since Sir Alex retired, they hadn\u2019t&nbsp;realized&nbsp;the club&nbsp;needed&nbsp;an amendment&nbsp;from&nbsp;top&nbsp;to bottom&nbsp;because of&nbsp;their own&nbsp;vanity&nbsp;and incompetence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last month, United have taken the&nbsp;fascinating&nbsp;step of hiring the&nbsp;famed&nbsp;coach Ragnick on an&nbsp;interim basis&nbsp;till&nbsp;the tip&nbsp;of the season,&nbsp;then he&nbsp;can move upstairs into a&nbsp;consultancy &nbsp;role.&nbsp;It is a&nbsp;clear range&nbsp;of action that has been uncommon at United in recent years and has been met with&nbsp;vast&nbsp;praise by fans who&nbsp;were&nbsp;tired with&nbsp;the board&nbsp;making&nbsp;questionable&nbsp;selections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some&nbsp;are&nbsp;still questioning the CV of Ragnick and&nbsp;are confused&nbsp;about&nbsp;soccer&nbsp;fanatics being excited about&nbsp;this appointment.&nbsp;comparatively&nbsp;unknown in&nbsp;England, the 63-year-old has been&nbsp;a major&nbsp;figure in&nbsp;Germany&nbsp;since his emergence in 1998. Ragnick&nbsp;initially placed&nbsp;his theories&nbsp;with success&nbsp;during his time at Hoffenheim and&nbsp;RB Leipzig. The clubs that Ragnick&nbsp;built&nbsp;in Hoffenheim and&nbsp;RB Leipzig have&nbsp;fully grown&nbsp;in&nbsp;quality&nbsp;and performances, and even their biggest critics would agree that the systems Ragnick&nbsp;enforced&nbsp;work&nbsp;sort of a&nbsp;charm.&nbsp;For good or for worse, both clubs are now established in the Bundesliga as clubs known to play fast flowing football and also being the foundation for many young and emerging players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This majorly helps United in&nbsp;2&nbsp;important&nbsp;ways in which. Firstly, United were starved of what some say &#8216;tactics&#8217; on the pitch&nbsp;throughout&nbsp;the age&nbsp;of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Ragnick&nbsp;positively&nbsp;brings that on the plate&nbsp;together with his&nbsp;famed&nbsp;&#8216;gegenpressing&#8217; and elite&nbsp;ways. But also, the&nbsp;practice&nbsp;role that Ragnick&nbsp;can&nbsp;use&nbsp;is one&nbsp;that may&nbsp;permit&nbsp;him to&nbsp;structure&nbsp;vital&nbsp;components&nbsp;of the club; the youth breaking into&nbsp;the primary&nbsp;team, recruiting new players from&nbsp;alternative&nbsp;clubs,&nbsp;revitalizing&nbsp;contracts for existing players, hiring coaches that have the qualities to be at United, and&nbsp;most significantly, hiring a permanent manager&nbsp;within the&nbsp;summer&nbsp;when&nbsp;Ragnick&#8217;s interim term ends. These tasks&nbsp;are unbelievably&nbsp;vital,&nbsp;particularly when United&nbsp;have&nbsp;revived&nbsp;contracts of questionable players that haven&#8217;t performed at&nbsp;the highest&nbsp;level. This had led to youngsters not being given adequate opportunities and hence, have had to leave the club and shine somewhere else. And most importantly, United have failed to hire a manager that has filled the role successfully with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s reign of 3 years ending trophyless too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These tasks are commonly given importance at other elite clubs, hence it&#8217;s a surprise that United have been so ignorant of these problems at the club. But Rangnick is definitely a step in the right direction and is a source of excitement to fans who have been baffled by how poorly the club has been run for the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could be the best move the club has made in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Rasheed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013,Manchester United have tried&nbsp;vainly&nbsp;to copy&nbsp;the astonishing Scot&#8217;s&nbsp;direction&nbsp;for fulfillment. 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