Erik Ten Hag on his Manchester Utd future and Brentford
18/10/2024
Carrington traINING CENTRE, MANCHESTER, UK
18/10/2024
Carrington traINING CENTRE, MANCHESTER, UK
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00:00Yes, first I want to congrat Andy and with
00:04reaching the top of the Kilimanjaro together with Robbo and big achievement and so for raising money for the Manchester United Foundation
00:13so
00:14big achievement and
00:16From our sides big concrete and enjoy it as well. And as I say, I think it's really for a good
00:24good target and
00:26hopefully
00:28Yeah, hopefully it will be follow-up and by a lot of money for this charity
00:34Okay
00:41Why don't you give us the first question on mountains as it be climbed yeah
00:47What makes you think you can still succeed at Manchester United Eric, what are you seeing that your critics might might be missing?
00:55also, we have to climb a mountain and
00:58this is top football and sometimes you have to face challenges, but
01:03And sometimes it goes up sometimes goes down
01:06But I'm sure we will make it a success as we did the last two seasons. We make it success and I
01:13think we are
01:16We are in a direction
01:18Underneath I see the cool things. I see underneath I see good patterns and I see also
01:24The good stats what
01:26Confirms that we are in a good direction. But of course the ranking is not lying
01:30I know we are where we are and that's not good enough
01:35Obviously you can see positives, but there's always a lot of noise around your position certainly the start of this international break
01:41Did you feel the need to seek any assurances about your position? No
01:44The noise is only coming
01:47from the media from you guys
01:50For some of you and let's say this not all of you but some of you
01:56Bringing up stories creating stories creating fairy tales
02:02Making the noise
02:03Bringing lies and because I know we are on one page in this group. I told this before the break
02:10I told several journalists probably they didn't they don't believe they didn't believe me. I have because
02:17I
02:18See the reports but
02:20Internal in the club. It's quiet. Of course. We are discussing
02:24in the position where we are and
02:27that we are
02:28Unhappy with the position where we are and how we have to turn the corner and what has to happen
02:34And so what should be the strategy to turn this corner?
02:39but ultimately
02:41We are quiet. We are composed
02:43We stay where we are we stick to the plan and
02:47We are very convinced. We will make it success
03:01Definitely the bill not help that is this for sure and you need place available to
03:06To perform so that is one one point we have to change in this club
03:10But then to this point actual is that
03:14Kobe and Harry they are out for a couple of weeks and muscle. Are we it's a good news. He's
03:22He faced an illness, but he returned on the training pitch and he's available for selection for tomorrow
03:30Just to see
03:41I
03:43Think very good choice from from the FA as a top-class manager proved himself
03:53Creating
03:55top teams creating
03:57teams who will who win and
04:01England
04:02Didn't win so much
04:04Didn't win since 1966. So I think it's a very good appointment to
04:10to get a win because England has
04:13world-class players
04:16make it a team and
04:17They have the opportunity to win
04:21big championships the Euros or the World Cup
04:26Eric you've had some problems that left back for a while because of injuries and unavailabilities
04:30Can you just say what is the situation with sure and type Tyrone Alassie? Are they going to be back anytime soon?
04:38Yeah, they have back but
04:41We can't force
04:43their return and
04:45We have to do it very careful because also we don't want to have a return and then quickly drop out
04:52so we we do it very
04:55Careful, but of course we hope to do it as soon as possible because this team needs a left-foot back
05:02That's also for sure
05:04on the game as well you
05:06Christian Erickson you signed him from from Brentford. He's become a really important figure again this season
05:11When it looked like perhaps his career might have been winding down slightly
05:15What's the the key to the change that he's now become so important pretty much every week?
05:20This year face some some injuries
05:24In the first year, but then already he was very important
05:29and
05:30As well as last season, but then also coming up Kobe, but then lately
05:36He proved himself
05:38In the team and together with Kobe and it can be a very good couple
05:43Lucky now, it's fell apart for the coming weeks, but it's it's clear
05:50He has a good season so far. He's important for the team with this contribution in
05:57linking
06:00Key passes
06:03Be creative
06:06Composed and calm and
06:08Yeah, very happy with this performance is so far in the season
06:14Have you got to try and take pressure off players obviously if you're in 14th every game is if you lose it
06:23It's it's a disaster because the club's not in a great position
06:27But also
06:28Benny McCarthy said that you see a lot last season players doing well in
06:34Training and then on a match day didn't happen, which presumably is to do with pressure as well
06:40How much have you got to take that off the player?
06:45I
06:46Think the players do well
06:48We we won last season
06:51Maybe you forgot and of course when we face problems and also we had
06:58Sometimes we have to
07:00line up teams
07:02Not in the right balance and because the players were not available
07:07But I think in general and the players
07:11Do perform well and what we see now? Yeah, we have to
07:15Then to start scoring and in that part
07:18But of course, it's the most important part of football if you want to win games, you have to score goals and in that part
07:24We have to improve and we are
07:28Entering the final third. We are entering the box
07:31We are coming in good positions to score and now we have to step up
07:36The last step with the most important step had to met