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The latest chapter of the Manchester United soap opera has come to an end. The club has settled on Ralf Rangnick to be its interim manager. Though, of course, nothing is ever simple. Rangnick and United have agreed on a relatively complicated deal which sees him taking over on the sidelines for the rest of this season before moving upstairs to take on consulting duties and help guide the team from the front office.
When one chapter closes, another opens, and as Ragnick prepares to take over United, there are still more questions than answers about how successful his tenure will be. So, we got some of our crack staff members together to talk through what the Rangnick era will look like at United and whether he’ll be successful either as a manager or as some sort of nebulously front-office consultant. Or both. Or neither! The world is full of endless possibilities. Let’s start with the most immediate question.
What will Ragnick’s Manchester United look like on the field?
Mike Goodman: For all the storm around United, it can sometimes be easy to forget that at the end of the day they need to play football matches. At least in the immediate term Rangnick is going to be judged on whether the players he inherits play better or worse than they did under his predecessor Ole Gunnar Solksjaer. We know a little bit about Rangnick. During his time at RB Leipzig and before it at Hoffenheim, Rangnick liked to press. It was his calling card. First and foremost, those teams sought to disrupt what the opposition was trying to do, which is pretty different than Solskjaer’s approach of being relatively indifferent to what an opponent wanted to do in possession and instead focusing (increasingly unsuccessfully) on stopping them from using that possession to get shots.
How quickly he’ll be able to execute that change will be anybody’s guess. But a successful Rangnick United side will be aggressive at breaking up…
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