I'm not even going to bother to dismember what clearly is a superficial and badly constructed attempt at justifying Ten Hag's retention. Its about as meaningful as one of those political leaflets we're all going to have to suffer dozens of in the next few weeks. Its cheap propaganda. One only has to look at his comments about Rashford (who clearly has been going through a great deal) to see they're are about as realistic as Ten Hag's comments about 'progress' and the simple fact is most of the key characteristics identified are standard practice used by most if not all managers if they can achieve it which if Ten Hag eschewed any of them he would probably never work in football again. The analysis basically congratulates Ten Hag for adopting an approach that most if not all managers will try to achieve. Then Goldbridge seems to pretend this season didn't happen. What part of "THE WORST SEASON IN 35 YEARS" does Goldbridge not get? United went backwards last season. That fact alone tells you Ten Hag failed not just on one or two aspects of his job but most aspects of it. Add that that the clear lack of motivation and absence of any identifiable system for the most part of the season suggests Ten Hag implementation of his key characteristics has been poor to say the least. He hasn't really got a leg to stand on. Even if you buy the injury argument, Van Gaal had a worse injury crisis in 2015/2016 and made a far better attempt at overcoming it, coming 5th in the league and missing out on UCL qualification on goal difference, than Ten Hag has this season. Rather Ten Hag has hidden behind the injuries to avoid adapting his approach and whilst belatedly (and far too late IMO) the system and approach have been changed we cannot be sure with the arrival of Jason Wilcox to oversee Ten Hag whether Ten Hag himself was the driver for those changes or whether it was at the prompting of Wilcox. Goldberg's view is little more than a piece of rather desperate straw clutching. And they wonder why so many think of 'influencers' with such disdain......