Manchester United had a rough start to the campaign under Erik ten Hag, losing to Brighton at Old Trafford and being 4-0 down to Brentford before half-time.
However, they have since kicked on and are now 3rd in the Premier League and in with an outside shot of challenging for the title.
Now, Bruno Fernandes has been outlining how Erik ten Hag has transformed Manchester United.
Fernandes recalled Erik ten Hag opting to run with the players after their loss to Brentford earlier in the season:
“When a manager does the punishment – because that’s what you have to call it, it was a punishment,” Fernandes recalls, “obviously it makes us feel he knows he was part of that bad result and he wants to make us understand we are together on this in a good way, in a bad way, in the good moments and in the bad moments.
“All of a sudden, you look backwards and you see your manager running with you. I don’t know exactly what the distance was but it was a big distance.”
“Obviously for us at that moment Marcus was already in good form. When everyone noticed that the manager was changing his first eleven because Marcus was late, at the same moment everyone felt like ‘we have to be here on time, that is the responsibility that we have’. We have to do what the manager wants and that is not what the manager wants.
“That is the rule: being on time for training, for meetings for whatever it is, we have to be always on time. That is a good thing because for the ones that don’t play they feel like ‘okay, if the ones who are playing are not doing the best they can they will be pulled out the team’.
“That shows the manager gives the same respect to the ones who are playing, to those who are more important, less important, scoring more goals, fewer goals, saving goals. That is a mark the manager made already in the past with other players but was not in the news. It is a good sign of passing responsibility to the player.”
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