How Erik ten Hag’s training routines have led to increased injuries revealed | OneFootball

Manchester United have suffered over 60 separate instances of injury this season with the Red Devils currently languishing in eighth place in the Premier League.

Manager Erik ten Hag’s flawed chaos ball has been a huge factor behind this drop-off in form but the Dutchman has kept on publicly claiming that injuries have been the biggest mitigating factor behind his style of play not working.

While there is certainly some truth to this statement, it is the former Ajax coach’s methods in training that have come under the scanner as the injury crisis threatens to derail the season finale.

Harry Maguire is sidelined for three weeks while for the first time since joining United, skipper Bruno Fernandes ended up missing a game. The manager announced that Mason Mount has once again picked up a minor knock.

Injury issues at the club

United are already missing their first-choice back four and the game against Arsenal is expected to be another mishap waiting to happen with Ten Hag asking for his ‘walking wounded’ to step up and play through the pain barrier.

This is exactly how Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane picked up knocks so soon after regaining fitness with new co-owners INEOS conducting a probe into the Dutch boss’ training regimen.

PL Brasil have revealed that with no proper hierarchy before Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s minority investment, Ten Hag was free to run things as he wanted and that has caused further injury issues.

Players have complained about the manager’s training methods as well as running demands and the report claims that Ten Hag has never adjusted the training workload as per the schedule.

Players keep training like they were for the first game of the season even though fatigue has built up during the course of so many games.

EtH’s methods under the scanner

Players have even had their off days cancelled and despite airing their concerns to the coaching staff, nobody has managed to overrule the manager.

“Although the bloated English calendar is also to blame, internally, many athletes cite Erik Ten Hag’s training for the excess number of injuries.

“According to some, he makes the mistake of maintaining the same training load throughout the season, even if the accumulated fatigue is much greater in the final stretch.

“Exhausting sessions, canceling days off and complaining about training have been pertinent topics at United for some time.

“But if Ten Hag makes so many mistakes, is no one capable of correcting it? There are two main problems that go beyond the Dutchman. The first is that United are going through a transition and they do not have a sporting director.

“Without a director, Ten Hag commands and dismantles. The club made a deal with Dan Ashworth of Newcastle United, but the target is still spending his last few weeks at the club in the north of England. This means that there is no one strong enough to prune Ten Hag in the football hierarchy.

“And the second involves a structural problem at the club. The new owner, Jim Ratcliffe, has already given interviews about the precariousness he found in United’s facilities. The medical department is no exception.”

Medical team needs a revamp

The less said about the medical department the better. Players have even preferred going to their personal doctors for diagnosis or advice due to the inferior quality on offer at Carrington.

The medical team failed to spot Casemiro’s injury on time while they also allowed Varane and Jonny Evans to play on despite concerns which eventually saw them suffer long-term injuries.

INEOS are trying to fix things by getting the backroom staff in place ahead of the new season while the medical department is in the middle of an overhaul.

As for Ten Hag, the new co-owners have a huge call to make once the season ends. And player power is also certainly rampant that leads to extra criticism for any manager and that also needs to be pruned immediately.

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