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Former Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick said it only took him two weeks to understand what the problems were at the club.
In an interview with German news outlet Der Standard, the 64-year-old gave a brief insight into his time at Old Trafford and what his unsuccessful spell has taught him as he takes over the job with the Austrian national team.
He told Der Standard: “Manchester United wouldn’t have needed six months to do that [solve their problems].
“After only two weeks it became clear to me where the problems were and what needed to be done to fix them.”
Rangnick also implied that he was not given the option nor the time to correct the problems he identified.
“But the question is whether you have the ability to change those things,” he said, hinting that he has not been given control during his time at the club.
“As a coach or athletic director, it’s important to be able to develop things and minimize the chance factor as much as possible.”
“That you develop a team in a direction where you use control of the game and a certain type of football to create significantly more chances than you allow the opposition to have.”
The German was asked about Cristiano Ronaldo and whether he would call him up if he was Austrian.
To this Rangnick replied: “He is not Austrian.”
In the interview, he described his idea of perfect football and his philosophy, something he failed to implement at the Theater of Dreams in his disastrous spell.
“Football evolves, so do the players. It is the same with the national team,” he said.
“What matters is how the players are fit at the time of the competition.”
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