Erik ten Hag lost his job at Manchester United for a multitude of reasons but, in his own analysis of what went wrong, there was one particularly striking observation. “The generation I grew up in had much thicker skin – you could be much more direct,” said Ten Hag. “If I would do that with my current group of players I would demotivate them. The current generation find it offensive. Criticism really gets to them.”
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