Erik ten Hag has showered Casemiro with reward for his function in serving to Manchester United clear up their ‘mess’.
The Dutchman was appointed because the Crimson Devils’ new supervisor on the finish of a troubling 2021/22 season, with many anticipating it could take him some time to resolve the membership’s varied points.
United seemed to be caught in reverse once they have been nicely crushed by Brighton and Brentford in Ten Hag’s opening two Premier League video games.
“There was a scarcity of self-discipline and I don’t must lie about it,” Ten Hag stated of the state he discovered United in.
“High gamers like construction, not solely on the pitch, so that you want some guidelines.
“I feel it’s apparent in each organisation that when there aren’t any guidelines or no self-discipline in taking the foundations severely, then you definately create a multitude.
“That’s not solely [the case] at a soccer membership, but additionally in any trade. It was fairly apparent as a result of I may see on the pitch what was happening.”
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Ten Hag has since garnered a popularity as a strict disciplinarian, making the daring name to drop Cristiano Ronaldo earlier within the season, whereas even Marcus Rashford was faraway from the beginning lineup for a sport after turning up late to a staff assembly.
However one in all their largest success tales this season has been summer season signing Casemiro, who has raised requirements on and off the pitch since arriving from Actual Madrid.
“Casemiro is such a pacesetter and so necessary for us,” Ten Hag added.
“Not solely together with his performances and expertise, like scoring targets together with his headers, or linking up, or intercepting balls, but additionally his organisation, his mentality, the tradition he initiatives. We’re so comfortable that we signed him.
“Once you go to recruitment in the summertime, it was not solely about signing gamers. We have been searching for gamers with character, with character. A whole lot of gamers on the planet have nice expertise from a technical strategy, or they’ll run actually quick, however we have been searching for gamers who’ve character, who’ve character, who’ve management, who take duty, who’re resilient. That’s the kind of participant I used to be searching for after I analysed the squad.
“Casemiro has not shocked me – completely not. I knew what an impressive participant he was. Simply take a look at his profile, all of the cups he’s received, that’s not a coincidence. Like Rapha Varane, he has received 5 Champions Leagues, that’s not a coincidence.
“For me it’s all the time the identical, you may have gamers who win, and who win all the time, and gamers who lose and are all the time shedding.
“You need to do your analysis and discover the kind who will win and who’re cooperative and humble within the dressing room however when on the pitch they take duty.”