Manchester United’s interim supervisor Ralf Rangnick tempered expectations he might implement his high-energy, aggressive model of play immediately, saying it might take time for the staff to turn out to be “urgent monsters”.
Rangnick was appointed on Monday on a contract till the tip of the season after the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and can work in a consultancy position for an extra two years.
The 63-year-old German is a proponent of ‘gegenpressing’ — a method of soccer wherein groups press excessive and use counter-pressing to win the ball again as quickly as potential, slightly than falling again to regroup.
“You must remember what sort of gamers you’ve got and the place they stand… They are skilled and good sufficient to know that. I can not flip the gamers we’ve got into the urgent monsters I need them to be inside two, three or 4 weeks,” Rangnick advised British media.
“My soccer is certainly not a sluggish waltz! I’m not that far aside from (Liverpool supervisor) Juergen Klopp by way of our ideas about a method of soccer, that’s no secret.
“This is the largest membership I’ve labored for, the largest membership on the planet… The vital factor is to have fun the DNA this membership nonetheless has, however to additionally implement it into the transformation to trendy soccer.”
Rangnick will take cost of United, seventh within the Premier League, for the primary time on Sunday when Crystal Palace go to Old Trafford.