Ten Hag is a really poor man’s Guardiola, he was able to hit the ground running at his first big job because the club had an identity, he was familiar with it and he had the right type of players to start implementing his brand of football. The difference is that when Guardiola went to City he actually had a good club structure, a vision of what he wanted to do and the talent to make adjustments to evolve his style accordingly. Ten Hag came into a mess and does not seem to have the talent to implement a cohesive idea from scratch into a club and without the proper structure there is no one to help him do it either.
Ten Hag is a really poor man’s Guardiola, he was able to hit the ground running at his first big job because the club had an identity, he was familiar with it and he had the right type of players to start implementing his brand of football. The difference is that when Guardiola went to City he actually had a good club structure, a vision of what he wanted to do and the talent to make adjustments to evolve his style accordingly. Ten Hag came into a mess and does not seem to have the talent to implement a cohesive idea from scratch into a club and without the proper structure there is no one to help him do it either.