{"id":294644,"date":"2023-11-08T17:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=294644"},"modified":"2023-11-08T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:25:32","slug":"cole-ten-hag-should-demand-who-is-with-me-and-who-is-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/cole-ten-hag-should-demand-who-is-with-me-and-who-is-against-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Cole &#8211; Ten Hag should demand &apos;who is with me and who is against me?&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Erik ten Hag should demand &#8216;who is with me and who is against me?&#8217; at Man United, says Joe Cole, as he calls Scott McTominay a player he can &#8216;trust&#8217; over more &#8216;quality&#8217; players<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joe Cole thinks Erik ten Hag must work out who he can and cannot count on<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He said that certain players may want the Dutchman gone for their own interests<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CHRIS SUTTON: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta is a CLOWN &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Cole has challenged Erik ten Hag to throw down the gauntlet at Manchester United and ask who stands with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Premier League winner said Ten Hag should prioritise players with the right &#8216;character&#8217; rather than quality.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to Scott McTominay as a trustworthy individual, even if he is &#8216;not&#8217; a &#8216;better player than Bruno Fernandes or Casemiro&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If I was\u00a0Erik Ten Hag\u00a0and had a situation where my job was on the line I would want to know, \u2018Who is with me and who is against me,\u2019 Cole told Mail Sport ahead of United&#8217;s Champions League trip to Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019d identify the characters, not necessarily the quality of players, who are with me. Like\u00a0Scott McTominay. Is he a better player than Bruno Fernandes or even Casemiro? Possibly not. But you have got to get a result &#8211; I would go with the players who are with me and the staff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77563985-12725911-image-a-1_1699461613245.jpg\" height=\"444\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Erik ten Hag must work out who is with him and prioritise character over quality, says Joe Cole<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77522877-12725911-image-m-3_1699461676419.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Cole told Mail Sport that he admires Ten Hag&#8217;s discipline but that some players will want him gone out of self-interest<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77564223-12725911-image-a-4_1699461930106.jpg\" height=\"411\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He said Scott McTominay, while &#8216;possibly not&#8217; on the same level as team-mates, is trustworthy<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You have to pick up on things. It might be a glance, it might be the body language, or their air in training. I would say, \u2018You lot, get to the side &#8211; this is my\u00a0Manchester United!\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If he wants to be a success, he needs to identify the players he can trust &#8211; and they might not be the best players. But he needs to identify the players who are going to sweat blood and tears to get a result.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag&#8217;s men know that against Copenhagen a win is needed to try and lift them above Galatasaray in Group A, as they currently sit a point behind the Turkish champions and lost to them at Old Trafford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McTominay has emerged as an unlikely hero, cropping up with crucial goals &#8211; he has scored three in ten games this season, two of which came in injury time to overturn the result at Brentford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cole praised Ten Hag&#8217;s disciplinarian approach to dealing with difficult situations, such as the one with Cristiano Ronaldo last season.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Cole told also told Mail Sport that he believed &#8216;both parties&#8217; needed to budge in the Jadon Sancho saga.<\/p>\n<p>United have had a challenging start to the season, losing eight of their 16 games, but battled to a gritty 1-0 win at Fulham over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77554061-12725911-He_insisted_the_atmosphere_at_the_Parken_Stadium_is_100_times_th-a-5_1699462081595.jpg\" height=\"322\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere at Copenhagen has been called 100x more than intense than Old Trafford<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/16\/77564343-12725911-image-a-6_1699462187512.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bruno Fernandes scored a last-gasp winner against Fulham and Cole said United are good at &#8216;nicking a result when they need one&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It took a stoppage-time winner from captain Bruno Fernandes to seal the points, and Cole praised the team&#8217;s fighting spirit but also believes that there are some self-interested characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cole added: &#8216;There will be players sitting there thinking, &#8220;If he goes, this might be good for me&#8221;. That\u2019s the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Erik Ten Hag has been very strong on a lot of situations and I admire him for that.\u00a0We only have the information we have &#8211; we don\u2019t know the situation with Ronaldo and Jadon Sancho. But once he makes a decision he sticks with it. I admire that about him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But now he is in a situation where he needs the lads to produce a performance for him. You could not be confident on Manchester United winning. But they have pulled it out before, this group of players. They seem to nick a result whenever they need one.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12725911\/Erik-ten-Hag-demand-against-Man-United-says-Joe-Cole-calls-Scott-McTominay-player-trust-quality-players.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Erik ten Hag should demand &#8216;who is with me and who is against me?&#8217; at Man United, says Joe Cole, as he calls Scott McTominay <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/cole-ten-hag-should-demand-who-is-with-me-and-who-is-against-me\/\" title=\"Cole &#8211; Ten Hag should demand &amp;apos;who is with me and who is against me?&amp;apos;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cole - Ten Hag should demand &amp;apos;who is with me and who is against me?&amp;apos; 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