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Erik ten Hag has defended Manchester United’s critical funding in the switch market, declaring that the full high teams are doing the same.
The Dutchman recruited six fresh signings for the duration of his first summer in rate, spending a mixed £210m on Antony, Casemiro, Lisandro Martinez, Tyrell Malacia and Christian Eriksen, while Martin Dubravka, Jack Butland, Marcel Sabitzer and Wout Weghorst all joined on mortgage.
United’s spending has now not stopped this summer. Mason Mount joined from Chelsea for an preliminary £55m, with a extra £47m spent on Andre Onana, and the browsing spree keeps going as Rasmus Hojlund is shut to joining from Atalanta for up to £72m.
When asked whether or now not the increased funding places stress on him and his gamers, Ten Hag insisted United are now not the single crew to be spending sizable.
“In contrast with the diversified [teams], we’re now not doing roughly,” he told the media. “They all invested a lot in their teams. I’m now not specializing in this dwelling because it’s completely, for me, unattractive.
“I derive to take into legend my formula of play and the arrangement in which I strengthen my crew. I will fight for gamers who I derive to derive in and I will query from the membership to catch the final discover gamers in and when we derive that, we derive to catch outcomes.”
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Ten Hag went on to stress that his shut to-£400m spending spree does not imply United needs to be viewed as title challengers for the arriving Premier League season.
“I derive in pre-season we shouldn’t discuss that [the title]. I derive no person in the Premier League can enact that, [except] presumably Metropolis,” acknowledged Ten Hag.
“They can enact that because for the last six years they won the title 5 times. To permit them to discuss that but any diversified membership have to first compete for the principle four positions and make positive chances are high you’ll per chance presumably also very properly be coming into into the principle four. And then, after, the principle two after which presumably chances are high you’ll per chance presumably also search about getting yourself in this type of put. Nonetheless don’t discuss that achievement.”
He persevered: “I derive we derive confirmed we are in a position to beat them, but you’ve gotten to enact it each day and in this moment, we derive a technique to gallop.
“Metropolis are also worthwhile their video games worthy extra without problems than we did, so I search the info. Nonetheless I actually don’t derive to chat about them because it sounds harmful, and it’s now not the formula I meant it. I derive to chat about our mission. I derive to chat about how we strengthen and I derive the enhancements last 12 months and the outcomes had been reasonably glaring but additionally in the efficiency.
“It became once reasonably glaring that lets beat the sizable opponents and besides Metropolis. Within the three video games, you observed fully that we increased the ranges in opposition to them.
“We are ourselves and now not diversified teams. Now we derive a contest with seven, eight clubs in the Premier League, across Europe worthy extra teams, so we derive to work on our formula of play and strengthen our efficiency. It needs to be optimum.”
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