Erik ten Hag: 7 Man Utd players that could thrive under the new manager

A new manager means a fresh start for everyone involved at a football club, none more so than the playing squad.

While all the focus is on who Manchester United will bring in with Erik ten Hag in the hot seat, to kick off his rebuild in an exciting fashion, fans probably shouldn’t get too giddy about a huge surge of incomings.

The best coaches, coach. And that is something that hasn’t been happening nearly enough at United over the past decade.

Actually, it’s near impossible to think of a player who has wound up in the Red Devils’ first-team and subsequently improved as a result, in recent times. United simply will not make any progress until they can rectify this major flaw.

Ten Hag will do his best to extract the maximum out of players in the squad who have been left to stagnate. And while there will be many who will find that their level isn’t high enough, there are others simply waiting to be rebooted by a top coach and reborn.

With that in mind, we at GIVEMESPORT have moved away from the usual transfer speculation and decided to focus on seven players who might thrive if given time to improve with the help of Ten Hag.

Okay, hear us out. Yes, he’s been pretty woeful in the 2021/22 season and he absolutely isn’t captain material for United. But give Maguire time and the right coaching, and he will recover some form.

Will he ultimately be good enough for United as they look to compete among the top teams once again? Quite possibly not. But for now, Maguire still has a use, and has shown for club and country that he can be effective. Ten Hag will do his best to bring that back out of him.

Whenever he’s had the chance to grasp his place in the XI with both hands and truly stake his claim, Lindelof has always just fallen