When it comes to considering how a manager will fare at a new club, I put myself back into the position of my first day, meeting the team I was about to manage.
I know the players are sitting there, listening to me and thinking: ‘Come on then. Tell us how you’re going to make us better as individuals and as a team.’ Never in my wildest imagination have I been able to picture Erik ten Hag holding court from the middle of a dressing room, convincing a group of young men with highly inflated opinions of themselves that they are all going places together.