A report on unrest amongst Manchester United players regarding Ralf Rangnick’s training methods has emerged recently.
Rangnick has been in charge of Manchester United for several months now, but the players have seemingly not taken to his training methods in this period.
According to ESPN, Manchester United players are becoming frustrated with Rangnick’s methods, whilst a section of the squad believe his training sessions are ‘old fashioned’.
Elsewhere, there has been some bemusement that Rangnick has left the bulk of his coaching sessions to assistant Chris Armas, who some United players on the training ground have jokingly likened to fictional football coach, Ted Lasso.
It is added that some Manchester United players have complained among themselves that Rangnick’s sessions are often based on 11 vs 11 work instead of the dynamic drills they feel help to keep them sharp between games.
Has Ralf Rangnick improved Manchester United?
Regardless of what Manchester United players think of his coaching, the main question should be has Ralf Rangnick improved the Red Devils on the pitch.
And for the most part, the answer is probably not.
Manchester United continue to look poor defensively, with the heroic displays of David de Gea generally the only thing that stops scorelines becoming embarrassing for United on a regular basis.
And in terms of their league position, Manchester United are down in 6th place, with Tottenham only three points behind them with two games in hand.
Manchester United have probably not looked that much worse under Rangnick than they did under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but it is worth remembering that the German has faced hardly any tough games as United boss yet.
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