"I've seen quite a bit of this at the football club. "If you do difficult things, which we felt that we had to do at Manchester United ... we felt like they were the right things to do. But you do become very unpopular for a while. "Well, I've been very unpopular at Manchester United because we've made lots of changes. But for the better, in my view. "And I think we're beginning to see some evidence in the football club that that's beginning to pay off."
"It was just one of those games that was not going to be that easy because especially they were stepping back, they were really compact, they were trying to go for the counter-attacks, the Slovenian striker told MUTV. It's just"
Sir Jim Ratcliffe implemented a series of controversial management and staffing cuts at Manchester United after acquiring a stake two years ago and accepted resultant unpopularity. United dismissed managers Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim and installed Michael Carrick as interim head coach; under Carrick the team has recorded four wins and one draw, climbing back into Champions League positions. Ratcliffe framed difficult decisions as necessary to resolve major problems and assessed early signs of improvement within the club. Benjamin Sesko scored a 96th-minute volley to secure a 1-1 draw at the London Stadium against compact, counter-attacking opponents.
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