Rene Meulensteen was surprised Ineos didn't stick by Erik ten Hag, but understands why change was needed.
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00:00Like you said, obviously, the Manchester United, the Ineos Group, so to speak, did that review, obviously, after the season.
00:10It's, how do you say, it was obviously a public secret that they basically, during that review, spoke to other candidates and other managers.
00:22I obviously do think that if you do a review, you do it to ensure yourself that you are convinced that when you make a decision, that's the right way forward.
00:34And in this case, it was that they stopped with Eriksenhagen. If you looked and listened to Eric carefully in a lot of his press conferences and interviews,
00:43it was all about being unified, being together. It's a process. We stick together, blah, blah, blah.
00:49Now, that's all good and well. So in that respect, you would think, yes, you are surprised because that's the direction Ineos was going to take.
01:00So you stick it out, don't you? And on the other hand, I'm not surprised because, obviously, the improvements that everybody wanted to see, including Eric himself,
01:12well, they haven't really come about. The worst start of the season, pouring of knots, firing at all cylinders in Europe.
01:22Just three draws, not one in Europe for a year. The football got unstuck. So basically, the group of people have come to agree,
01:34maybe we have to hold our hands up and say, listen, we have made an error of judgment and we have to move into a different direction.