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Erik ten Hag explains how Manchester United can move through a "difficult process" following Saturday's defeat.

We have to encourage them, but also they have to get it by themselves because they know they are good players. The belief, you have to bring on the pitch for yourself and as a team.” I will work on that.” It’s a big responsibility and I take that. United started confidently at the Gtech Community Stadium, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcus Rashford showing sharp touches on the ball. “Yeah, this is the truth,” he said.

Manchester United thrashed 4-0 at Brentford in Erik ten Hags first away game; 13-time Premier League champions have now lost seven successive away games; ...

I can't imagine what the fans at home and the fans who have paid all that money to come here today must be thinking." "Peaceful protest and demonstrating in the right way is something that should be done. "It's going to be toxic in these next five, six or seven days before the Liverpool game but you cannot turn up at people's houses, you cannot abuse people's families. "I know there are fans who have turned up at people's houses or at the training ground and tried to break in. I've been in teams that have been suffering and they need something. "I get that but I've been in struggling teams before. The problem is that now, no one wants to take their money. If you just rough them up a little bit and get a goal, they're flaky like you wouldn't believe." "United in the past have always answered the fans' anger through money and spending in the transfer market. "That is not a strategy - you can't do that. But the one he has got good contacts with, they can't get in - Frenkie de Jong. "It's not a stalled market - teams have got their business done.

United are already in full-blown crisis mode after finding themselves four down at half-time against the Bees.

“I don’t want to play from the back when it’s not possible. “I subbed three but I could have changed them all,” he said. It’s no good that we show that clearly, and we have to change that. It’s clear at this level that’s not the standard we want to act.” “I think it’s nothing to do with tactics. “He didn’t have to release the ball there because we gave options and the players have to choose,” insisted Ten Hag. “We said ‘invite them and play long’.

Manchester United plumbed new depths after a 4-0 capitulation at Brentford sent Erik ten Hag's side into full-blown crisis mode after just two games of the ...

On the half hour Mee, the summer signing from Burnley, bundled in a header at the far post after United failed to deal with a corner. Jensen was alive to the unravelling situation in the United defence and nipped in to rob Eriksen and double the lead. But the problems are all at the other end, as United imploded after only 10 minutes thanks to the first mistake from De Gea.

Rio Ferdinand has severely criticised Manchester United for their poor showing against Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday, jokingly suggesting that ...

You know you’re going to Brentford and it’s going to be a tough game and if you don’t roll your sleeves up from the minute one you’re going to get turned over. Ten Hag is new to this league so he’s going to get a couple of surprises here and there, but the players have been here. “He’s not had the fortune to bring in five or six new players, so all the players there have got no excuses. "We weren’t at the races. “You watch the game [against Brentford] and you look at it and you think, ‘Wow’. The players are nowhere near worth the money that they spent on them. Rio Ferdinand has severely criticised Manchester United for their poor showing against Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday, jokingly suggesting that they might as well appoint Sam Allardyce if they continue to employ long-ball tactics.

ERIK TEN HAG walked straight into a sequence of sticky situations after joining Manchester United.

Time is running out to sew up a deal for De Jong amid a dispute between the player and Barcelona over £17m of deferred wages. The new boss is also being forced to scour the transfer market for new attacking players after Cristiano Ronaldo asked to leave the Red Devils last month. Erik ten Hag's entourage are reportedly fuming at the nature of his first summer as Manchester United boss.