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So Far Two Issues Still: Ten Haag's Rebuilding Rough Edges

                         Eurosport It is another pre-season at Manchester United with a new manager leading a reset, and with the fans hoping that the club would eventually succeed in the quest to return to relevance at the top end of the league. Erik Ten Haag is the fourth substantive manager since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement after a title-winning season back in 2013. He is the "new sheriff", who is hoping to use the optimism that usually surrounds the club after a good pre-season as a catalyst for systematic progress both in the short and long term. The Red Devils have won three out of three preseason games so far with stellar performances to boot.   Ten Haag looks poised to imbibe in his players, some of the core values that have since been eroded from the team over the past years - commitment, discipline, pride, honor, and most importantly, winning mentality, which are all baselines of the g...