David Alaba has labelled Ralf Rangnick 'world classs' and moved to defend the work he did during his time at Manchester United.
22.05.2022 - 06:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Ralf Rangnick has told Manchester United fans that he should be blamed for the failure to generate an improvement in results and performances as the club's interim manager.
United supporters have turned on the players at the end of a disastrous season and their final Premier League game of the campaign will decide whether they finish sixth or seventh, with the latter seeing them drop into the Europa Conference League.
There were chants of 'You're not fit to wear the shirt' during the humiliating 4-0 defeat to Brighton two weeks ago and the players have received most of the criticism this season.
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But United have won just 11 of Rangnick's 28 games in charge and performances have underwhelmed throughout his tenure. Rangnick has admitted he abandoned attempts to get his side to press after just two league games in charge and he accepts he has underachieved at Old Trafford.
"Sustainably I agree we never came near to that aggressive, pro-active football. To attack them in their half, to keep them under pressure than I’d normally want to do," he said.
"I’m more than self-critical. I should have done better. I expected that me and my coaching staff could have developed this team in a more sustainable kind of way.
"We couldn’t and it’s not only the players who should be blamed, it should be ourselves. We all could and should’ve done better. But in order to play that kind of football, you need all the players in their best possible positions who can play like that."
Rangnick took over at United after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked in November, but he had been a manager for only two of the previous 10 seasons.
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