Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag has claimed it's impossible to implement a fluid passing playstyle at the club.
The Dutch head coach, hired due to his impressive displays with Ajax in the Eredivisie, was speaking after United's 3-0 loss to Manchester City.
After the game, Ten Hag was asked how long it would take for his United team to look similar to his Ajax side.
We will never play the football we played at Ajax here," he told ViaPlay after the defeat.
I now have other players, that's not why I came here.
The player material you have determines how you will play. That's why we play here in a different way than I did at Ajax. That will have to be the case, because I can't play the same way here.
That is not in the DNA of Manchester United at all. The football at Ajax is very typical, here we will play much more directly. We also have the players for that, especially at the forefront."
