I’ve seen many fans and pundits make this claim. Do you think Manchester United players aren’t playing as well as they can in hope to get Ten Hag sacked. I’ve seen this argument used against Rashford as people since he’s got his new contract he’s just content to get his money and play as well.
Though Hoijund has claimed the players all back Ten Hag still https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/09/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-squad-backing-rasmus-hojlund
In my opinion no. Rashford’s purple patch is over, wrong Ten Hag’s signings that may have been great in the Netherlands but are just not good enough for the PL, Madrid fleecing UTD with Varane and Casemiro, injuries and tactics. In my opinion Bruno is the one standing out and I think he and maybe 2 or 3 others are of UTD quality while the rest just aren’t. I would put it down to years of wrong transfers and lack of manager’s tactical ability.
Malacia was fine and dirt cheap. Been injured all season. Martinez is arguably our best player. Injured all season. Casemiro was factually super important for us last season and a desperation buy from the board so not even really an ETH signing. Antony has been bad. Other than that, who else? Eriksen on a free was great business. He’s losing his legs now but we desperately needed him and he was our top assister in the league last season I believe. Not judging the new signings yet, so who else am I forgetting? Seems like Antony is THE bad signing.