After Manchester United's 1-0 loss to Wolves in the Premier League, the Daily Mail asserted that the "coach killers" in Manchester United's squad were again in a hurry. United's dressing room was exposed to be very depressing, falling apart, morale was at a low ebb, and interim manager Ronnick was simply unable to convince the public.
Manchester United have become a mess and no one with a connection has a good ending, whether it's a player or a coach. After his retirement, whether it was Moyes, van Gaal, Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or now Lonnick, they were all in trouble.
Luke Shaw's candid admission to the lack of unity and responsibility of the team after the loss shattered the illusion of internal harmony created by former manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. It was naïve to think that after the darkness of the Mourinho era, solskjaer left a better club for his successor, and now this idea can be proved completely wrong.
The United camp was so "happy" that Lonnick immediately brought in a sports psychologist and then warned players to improve their body language during the game. Red Devils players waved their arms and complained when they were frustrated during the game, and gary Neville denounced them as "complaining women".
In the Manchester United squad, many players have changed their minds, and Lonnick confirmed that several players have expressed their intention to leave the team to him. The British "Daily Mirror" said that the number of such players, as many as 11! They include Martial, Cavani, van der Beek, Dean Henderson, Mata, Lingard and Eric Bai.
Most of these players are manchester United's fringe men, but they can't understand why they haven't had more chances when the team has performed so badly. It is said that when Solskjaer was in office, he constantly covered up the contradictions, put his arms around their shoulders, and made promises that he could not keep, which seemed to stabilize the situation, but in the long run, made things worse. Because, players prefer to be told the truth directly in order to better determine their future.
The source told The Mirror: "It's not good, the atmosphere is really bad, there will be more trouble ahead of United."
Lonnick is calmer and keeps his distance from the players, but his employment is basically not much different from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's, and the substitutes still feel frustrated. As a result, the mood of the players on the Carrington training ground was so bad that the British media described it as "depressing".
Half of United's players were unhappy, with senior players speaking openly that it was the worst team atmosphere they could remember. United's dressing room has been revealed to have split into small groups with different views, a lack of leaders and no one to disobey anyone.
When Cristiano Ronaldo organized a dinner party in November to improve the unity of the team, some teammates did not buy it and were directly absent, which attracted attention. The Post revealed that Ronaldo was shocked by the fact that manchester United's standards had dropped so much after his return. Ibrahimovic felt the same way when he first came to Manchester United 5 years ago, when he bluntly criticized the Red Devils like a small club in his latest autobiography, "Adrenaline".
Ibrahimovic wrote: "Everyone thinks Manchester United is a top club, one of the richest and strongest clubs in the world, and from the outside it is the same. But when I got there, I found that they had a self-contained mentality."
Fans have been pointing the finger at clubs and coaches for almost 10 years, but it turns out that United players must also be responsible for the chaos. Many of them have been with the team for years, are expensive and have a staggering weekly salary, but have not won any championship trophies since 2017 and have already fired four managers.
Star Roy Keane scolded the United players, saying they threw Mourinho under the wheel and then killed Solskjaer. Now, Ronnick could be their target. In the United States, where the Greze family lives, Manchester United bosses, this kind of action by athletes is often referred to as the "coach killer".
On Solskjaer's final day at charge of Manchester United, he packed his stuff in Carrington's office and some staff asked him why he hadn't exposed the players who had disappointed him. Faced with this question, Suo Shuai shrugged his shoulders with a sad smile. It's all in plain sight.
Now, Ronnick has only been in office for a little more than a month and faces the same problem. Although the British media actively created a momentum when he took office, making him the "godfather of German high-ranking pressing", calling him a teacher of famous coaches such as Klopp, Tuchel and Nagelsmann, many of the United players were not convinced.
Manchester United players followed through their tactics in the first half when Ronnick took charge of the opening game against Crystal Palace, but people have hardly seen such a game since then. United were lucky to win against Norwich and Burnley, drawing with Newcastle and scoring seven points through the bottom three teams, but Wolves made the Red Devils recognize the painful reality.
Lonnick may be well respected in Germany, but his access to Manchester United's coaching position surprised the players. The 63-year-old coach was already far removed from the top league coaching position, and he even went to Russia to work as sport and development director for Lokomotiv Moscow.
Since coming to Manchester United, Lonnick has maintained a rather detached posture, bringing in first-team coach Chris Armas and psychologist Sasha Lens to try to improve the atmosphere at the club, but it will not be an easy task.
Because Manchester United's coach killers do not agree with Lonnick's coaching style, they also have a bad impression of his 4222 tactics, and lack respect for the unknown coaches he hired. ESPN reported that Lonnick's arrival could not inspire (underwhelmed) Manchester United players, and one Manchester United player even had to go through Google to search for Ronnick's profile.
Not to mention Lonnick, who has never won any league title, is Ronaldo, who returned this summer, and cannot be recognized by everyone in the Manchester United dressing room. Some players are worried about his absolute main position, the British "Daily Express" said that Manchester United captain Maguire, youth prince Mason Greenwood and Uruguayan striker Cavani all believe that C Ronaldo will always play the status of the main force, affecting their own development.
They fear that Cristiano Ronaldo, in conjunction with other Portuguese players such as Bruno Fernandez, Diogu Dalo, Fred and Tres, has too much power in the locker room.
Lonnick is somewhat helpless about the current situation of Manchester United, and after losing to Wolves, he has a long way to go and he cannot guarantee that he will be able to achieve his goal of reaching the top four of the Premier League and winning the Champions League this season.