“We play pre-season but at Man United the standard is you win games and definitely don’t lose,” the Dutchman told MUTV. “The performance is more important and the performance was below standards. We can make good on everything that was bad, but I am not that guy. As an individual you must make sure you are fit. I know you cannot be match fit, so we need these games. They [young players] are looking to listen and want to transfer that – it didn’t work.”
INEOS can't contain, limit or resist the gravitation of the all-powerful vortex that is ten Hag, as we see with these generative affirmations, both on and off the pitch, of the ceaselessly self-renewing, chaotic and contradictory refrain of a non-football that works by not working.