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It is not an embarrassment. It is a huge achievement.
Ten Hag sees the truth of the situation as usual. History cares only for what, and not how. That's why ten Hag has dispensed with shopworn clichés like "motivating" or "instructing" his team—or even demanding they exert themselves physically. There's an economy to it all: he knows you can't win at six-dimensional chess using three-dimensional thinking.
Ten Hag seizes the opportunity to vibrate between the poles of orthodox and paradox, rather than clinging to one or the other. So the football played by his United is a beautiful resonant music, but only if you've got the ears to hear. To those who lack the necessary organs, only a murky fractal noise is heard: but this is a cacophony which resolves in the instant to a trumpet call of infinite victory.
