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Erik ten Hag says Manchester United may need time to reach full strength this season, pointing to the challenge of reintegrating players returning from international duty. United go into the new campaign having completed their tour across the United States that saw them play friendlies against...
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Ten Hag emphasised the importance of working on United’s “game model” and ways of playing but admitted that teams with fewer international players might have an advantage in the early weeks.
“I can see why you might see it that way, because we didn’t have time together,” he said. “We have to work on our game model and find the patterns. There was a break, they all played Euros, Copa America so they were in different teams, with different game models and different patterns, and now we have to bring this together and it’s complicated.
“I am not the only one who has to deal with this problem, but there are also teams with less international players, they can make a pre-season so they are probably ahead of us. We have to deal with this in the coming weeks without dropping points.”